Duke Law's Notification Process for Journal Acceptance Is A Total Train Wreck

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If you are a current Duke Law student who applied to one of the school’s journals, you have probably emailed Above the Law in the past two hours. You can stop now, we’ve heard you, please step back from the ledge.
The system for notifying students of whether they had been accepted to journals was flawed. Some people were told they were accepted by a journal when, in fact, they were not. Others were given placement on journals they didn’t apply for. Everybody is pissed.
The email from Duke Law School’s Director of Publications, after the jump.


Here’s the email explaining the problem:

Dear all,
For the first time, this office used a new computer program intended to improve the efficiency of the process to assist in making the selections for journal membership. Selection lists generated by the program were distributed to the journals on Thursday. After this distribution, we discovered, and for reasons the publications office does not yet fully understand, the program generated significant errors. As a result some students who should have received offers for journal membership did not receive those offers, or did not receive offers to join their preferred journal. Some of the offers extended for journal membership were extended in error and will have to be reconsidered.
We are working to redo the selection process as quickly as possible, and will be working through this weekend. We expect to have this process completed by the end of the day on Monday and have the corrected selection lists sent to the journals then.
I very much regret these mistakes and the obvious upset and uncertainty these errors are causing you. Please accept my sincere apology.

At Duke, students don’t have to deal with swine flu. Oh wait, they do have to deal with swine flu.
Duke Law students, the opportunity to express yourselves awaits you in the comments. UNC Law students, be careful of hypocrisy. Remember, not too long ago your own law school invited students to admitted students weekend who had not actually been accepted to the school.
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