Uncle Sam Mistakenly Sends Presidential Management Fellowship Acceptances to Unsuccessful Candidates
Like in the movie The 300, these folks deserved better. From Government Executive:
A prestigious postgraduate fellowship program run by the Office of Personnel Management has acknowledged it sent acceptance letters to about 300 applicants by mistake in January.
The Presidential Management Fellows program had 9,077 applicants, nominated for the program by their graduate schools, for 2012. Of those, 628 were ultimately chosen as fellows and 1,186 were semifinalists. All semifinalists were invited to conduct in-person interviews.
Approximately 25 percent of the semifinalists received erroneous acceptance letters, according to Fox News.