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Both sad and ironic! Aren't those emails somehow legally binding?
by dorfsmay 12y ago
Both sad and ironic!
Aren't those emails somehow legally binding?
- psychometry 12y agoNo, you usually need an offer on letterhead from the dean of the graduate school (or similar).
- Alex3917 12y agoIf the email comes from a school employee then that may be enough to make it legally binding. But even if it isn't, if you threaten to sue the school will almost always let you in. This sort of thing happens all the time, e.g. from coaches who tell athletes they are accepted before the admissions committee officially makes a decision, and the reason you never hear about lawsuits is because the schools almost always let the candidates in if they complain in order to prevent bad publicity.
- SapphireSun 12y agoI don't understand, wouldn't the law account for honest mistakes if you corrected them in a timely fashion (e.g. before anyone relied upon the notification, resulting in actual harm)? Why would a mistake like this be legally binding? EDIT: Looks like someone further up the thread is in exactly this situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9066942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9066942