【zz】上周收到Michigan录取，这周说录取发错了——然后把它argue回来了！

原帖：http://blog.renren.com/blog/253793372/898454694 楼主申请2013年米国MPP。 选校的时候，选了九个米国的，一个新加坡国立，数了数，一共十个。 我和潘老师商量，是不是略少了啊。 潘老师：......是啊。 我决定再加一个，犹豫啊犹豫，我问潘老师，UCLA怎么样？潘老师说，难申。我墨迹了一下，问密西根呢，潘老师说，也难申。我问潘老师，哪个更难申一点呢，潘老师犹豫了一下，说都难申。 最后小黄鸡点点豆豆，OK，密西根了。 申请的时候密西根的文书比较麻烦，要一个personal statement和statement of purpose 楼主搞了半天，才明白这两个有什么区别。 OK，这都不是重点。 3月2日，楼主收到新加坡国立的笔试面试，隔天收到UCSD的面试。 3月14日，一大早被QQ吵醒，群里listen说，收到了密西根一封华丽丽的拒信。 鉴于楼主从头到尾都对密大没抱希望，于是淡定在在床上用pad刷了次邮箱。 开头一句 Dear Yunzhen: Congratulations! 楼主欣喜若狂啊！当初楼主接到新加坡国立面试的时候，看到人家学院华丽丽的名字：李光耀公共政策学院。瞬间觉得人家好高端洋气上档次啊有木有！！！李光耀啊！有木有！！！ 结果楼主后来发现但凡是公共政策学院，大小通吃老少咸宜都爱加一个XXX公共政策学院！！ 楼主申请的时候没怎么关注密西根那神马神马学院，来来回回看了几遍，人家是福特公共政策学院！福特啊！瞬间觉得甩出了李光耀几条大街啊有木有！！！楼主没事又查了MPP的专排，全美第三啊我之前肿么不知道! 楼主一颗去新加坡国立的坚定的心瞬间碎了。 OK，周四收到的录取信里说下周回finalize奖学金，于是楼主写了一封情深意切的求奖学金的信。 然后打电话通知了父母大人，周末用崔莹的收费网关，上了密西根华人站开始找房子。楼主找房子找的心花怒放。两年前寒假去新西兰的时候，楼主就深深喜欢上了这种安谧的生活，草坪，蓝天，大幅的海报，静谧的接到。everything is perfect. 周一一大早，楼主就写邮件把手里的offer拒了。然后给密西根又发了一封情深意切的表忠心的信。 周一晚上11:58，小秘回邮件了，说有这些奖学金，你可以考虑一种bulabula。 生活是多么的美好！ 周二一大早，刷了个邮箱。悲剧了...... Please read: University of Michigan application status In sending out the admittance emails for our Fall 2013 MPP and MPA programs, there was a data error and you received a message saying that you were admitted, when your actual status is wait listed. We are very sorry for this confusion, but wanted to let you know as soon as possible, for we are limited in our class size. The message you should have received is below. We know how upsetting this can be, but would like to reassure you that we will let you know if you are admitted as soon as possible. In the past, we have regularly gone to our wait list, a spots become available. We will be sending out those messages after the response deadline of 4/20/13. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns, and again, we do apologize. Barbara Barbara Kinzer Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am writing to inform you that your application to the Masters of Public Administration program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has been placed on a waitlist. Our Admissions Committee was impressed with your background and we hope to be able to invite you to join us in Fall 2013, once we have a clearer sense of our expected class size. To remain eligible for future admission please reply to this email or send a message to *******@umich.edu expressing your continued interest by Friday, April 5, 2013. If we do not hear from you by that date, we will withdraw your application. You may also send us any information – employment updates, recent grades, or additional letters of recommendation – that you feel will assist us in our selection process. After our response deadline of April 20th, we will reevaluate applicants who have chosen to remain on the waitlist and let you know then whether you have been admitted, denied or placed on a shorter waitlist which we will revisit in the summer. If you are on our waitlist but decide to make other plans, please let us know. The Ford School offers an intellectually challenging environment for graduate study and a wide range of exciting career opportunities upon graduation. We are a strong community of students, staff and faculty whose enthusiasm and personal commitments make it a special place to be a graduate student. Outstanding students like you are an essential part of the Ford School experience, and all here share my hope that we will be able to invite you to join us in the fall. Sincerely, Beth Soboleski Director, Admissions & Recruiting Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan 发错录取了！！！我是wl！！！还是神马劳什子MPA的wl！！！姐从头到尾就没有申过你家的MPA好嘛！！！ 姐已经把其他的offer都拒了好嘛！！！虽然到现在还有六个学校没消息到手的只有一个迈阿密的offer！！！ 但是姐已经把它拒了！！！拒了！！！一个offer没有了！！！！！！ 于是当天写了一封argue信。 an emergent and embarrasing situation of your faithful applicant Dear Administration Officer, Thank you for reading this email. My name is Yunzhen Zhang, an applicant to your 2013 fall MPP program. Five days earlier, I received an admission letter of this MPP program from the Ford School of Public Policy admission office. You couldn’t imagine how ecstatic I was when I received that admission letter. However, this morning, curiously enough, about ten hours ago, I received an email from Ford School saying that your school had sent me the wrong letter earlier and waitlisted me for your MPA program, which, to my surprise, I didn’t apply for in the first place. I was more than upset to hear that. I am despairing. I applied for several American universities and U-Michigan has long been my dream school with its strong academic background, time-honored education history and high reputation in the world. The courses offered by your MPP program are impressive and relevant to the field I want to study in. I’m crazy about the experience at your school! Therefore, soon after I received the admission letter from the Ford School of Public Policy, I refused my all other offers to make rooms for other applicants. (One of my refuse letter) What's more, I have been working in the ****************** Association, affiliated to the *******************. I once worked as an intern in this Association when I was still a university student. It is really a competitive process as only one of the four interns was given a full-time job offer. My supervisor was very happy about my performance during my internship and invited me to work as his secretary to help him deal with some administration work. He has taught me a lot and given me selfless support when I told him that I want to pursuit a MPP program in America, even though it may bring some inconvenience to him. Just the day after I received the admission letter from your school (last Friday), I submitted my formal resignation to the Association, and yesterday the Association official approved my requirement and informed me to hand over all my current work within three months. Now I feel hopeless and really do not know what to do next. Last weekend, I also registered in the BBS http://aabbs.us/forum.php (picture below) and reserved an apartment in Ann Arbor. I really have done a lot of preparation work. I know it is hard for your school to make a final decision as the candidates are all very competitive and the class size is limited. But I do really hope that you can reconsider my embarrassing situation and give me a chance to study in U-Michigan. In the last five days, many things have changed for me and now I feel hopeless and have no idea about how to explain this situation to my parents and friends. I sincerely appreciate it if you can give me the chance. Looking forward to your reply. Wish you all the best! Sincerely, Yunzhen Zhang 信写完，想了想，楼主翻了一遍他家的官网，找到了那个beth，一个dean，还有一个什么chief administrative officer的邮箱，把邮件发给小秘，又给这几个人每人抄送了一份。因为时差，这封信发出去的时候应该是密西根半夜。中间各种焦急焦虑不淡定，下午还趴在沙发上哭了一场。 晚上九点多，beth回邮件了。 Dear Yunzhen, I want to reiterate how very sorry we are for this error. Given your situation, let us look at our numbers and see what we are able to do. We certainly understand your concern. We will be in touch, Beth 楼主琢磨了半天，觉得这句话像是什么都没说，very sorry! 怒了！！！继续argue!! what if I committed a suicide and leave a message to my parents saying I am very sorry???!!! what can those two words make up for the rest of their life???!!! what does "this error" means?? 楼主到底是被录了，还是被waitlist到MPP了？还是被waitlist到MPA了！！ 这时候楼主的口气有点重，问他error到底是什么意思的时候因为邮箱抽风，还发了两次（beth我不是故意的......） *……&&……*&*……&……&……%￥%&……&*&*&&……& **&&……（（*&￥￥#@￥￥%%&……%*&&（）） （（*&*&&……&%……%……%……&……（*）（——）——）+——（）（（*&……&%……%%￥%…………%& ……%……&……&……*&……&…………（&（ 从半夜两点多，beth就沉默了。 洗洗睡了。 第二天一大早起来刷邮件，楼主前一天已经拟好了一份草稿，准备今天再不给楼主答复，楼主就按照学校官网上给的校长传真，直接传真校长去！！！不带这样的！ 然后看到了凌晨五点多beth发的邮件。 Dear Yunzhen, In 1975, President Ford told the international group that would eventually sign the Helsinki Accords that history would judge us "not by the promises we make, but by the promises we keep." Last week, we sent you a letter saying you'd been admitted to the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Yesterday--after you'd proudly shared the good news with friends and family and, perhaps, turned down other offers--we emailed you saying that you were instead on our wait-list for admission. I apologize for our mistake. As dean, I'm writing to assure you that in the spirit of our namesake president, the Ford School keeps its promises: we honor our acceptance of you into our class of masters' students. I very much hope to welcome you to our community this fall. If you join us, I know that you'll find a hard-working, warm, committed group of students, faculty, and staff--that's my promise! Please do not hesitate to call or write our Admissions Director with any questions: Beth Soboleski,*****@umich.edu or ************. Best regards, Susan M. Collins Joan and Sanford Weill Dean Professor of Public Policy and Economics Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091 TEL: ************ 好吧，虽然被惊吓了一天，但是院长大人的文笔。。。瞬间正能量了。