The 
University 
of 

Michigan’s 
College 
of 

Literature, Science and the 
Arts sent an email Monday to 
prospective transfer students 
congratulating them on their 
acceptance to the University 
and inviting them to LSA’s 
Transfer 
Student 
Days 
in 

April. 
While 
normally 
a 

moment of celebration for most 
students, the email was met 
with confusion and questions 
— students who received the 

email had not heard back in 
an official capacity from a 
University office in regards to 
their admission status at the 
time of LSA’s email.

Addressed 
by 
Transfer 

Recruiting 
Coordinator 

Kristin Heinrich, the email 
was 
reportedly 
sent 
to 

prospective 
students 
still 

waiting 
to 
hear 
if 
their 

transfer to the University was 
accepted or rejected.

“Congratulations on your 

admission to the College of 
Literature, Science, and the 
Arts!” the email read. “I am 
sure this is an exciting time 

for you. Are you interested 
in 
learning 
more 
about 

LSA? Do you want to meet 
current transfer students and 
professionals 
from 
across 

campus who are here to help 
YOU? We invite you to attend 
one of our LSA Transfer 
Student Days in April!”

Prospective 
transfer 

student Paris, who requested 
to remain anonymous as to 
not impact her admissions 
decision, participated in a 
dual-enrollment 
program 

through a local community 
college and took a gap year 
after that year. Instead of 

being able to defer her 
enrollment to universities 
through 
the 
gap 
year 

program, she had to apply 
as a transfer and was 
waiting to hear back when 
she got LSA’s email.

Paris said she noticed 

the first email but then saw 
other students replying to 
LSA’s email saying they 
hadn’t heard from the 
University 
about 
their 

admission status until this 
moment — she was in the 
same situation.

“I check my email every 

hour waiting for colleges 
to get back (to me),” Paris 
said. “But I woke up from 
a nap and refreshed my 
email and saw two new 
emails 
from 
the 
LSA 

College of the University 
of Michigan. The first 
one was ‘Congratulations 
on your acceptance, this 
must be a really exciting 
time for you,’ and the more 
you scroll down (through 
the email chain) the more 
people are like ‘Is this a 
mistake? I don’t have any 

official letter, my application 
status is exactly the same.’”

After 
seeing 
the 
email 

chain, Paris logged on to 
Wolverine Access to check her 
admission status, which was 
still unavailable at the time.

“Right 
when 
I 
opened 

it, I thought this is too 
convenient,” 
Paris 
said. 

“Already, going to Michigan is 

such a dream that to just wake 
up from a random nap and see 
that I got in, I was like hold 
on, I’m a little skeptical. And 
to see that everyone else was 
a little skeptical, I was like 
‘yeah, I’m right.’”

University 
spokeswoman 

Kim Broekhuizen wrote in 
an email statement the LSA 
email was mistakenly sent to 
prospective students and is 
being handled by LSA.

“LSA accidentally sent an 

email to the wrong group,” 
Broekhuizen wrote. “(LSA)...
reached out to the impacted 
students directly.”

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LSA admissions email mistakenly sent 
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Message invited students to LSA acceptance event without admissions decision

MATT HARMON

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“Right when 

I opened it, 

I thought 

this is too 

convenient”

