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Law School Sends Acceptance Letters To People Who Never Even Applied

Can you guess which law school committed this embarrassing mistake?

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'Happy New Year to me!'

‘Happy New Year to me!’

It’s January, and you know what that means: it’s law school acceptance season. Each year at around this time, prospective law students anxiously wait to receive the important news on what their futures may hold. One law school, however, decided to speed up the painstaking process and give would-be law students even more reason to celebrate on December 31, because these lucky pre-law students were being given a chance to ring in the new year with a law school acceptance in hand.

There was just one problem — one huge problem.

Many who received acceptance letters on New Year’s Eve hadn’t even applied to the school. Oopsie! Can you guess which law school committed this embarrassing mistake?

The law school in question is none other than the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, a school that was once selected by the Above the Law readership as the runaway winner of the dubious accolade of “Worst Law School in New York.”

Here’s the congratulatory email that prospective law students received from Touro Law on New Year’s Eve at 6:36 p.m., entitled, “Message from Dean Salkin – Touro Law”:

Touro Law Dean Salkin Congratulations NYE Acceptance Email

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Several hours passed before someone at Touro Law realized that there was an issue and that a very big mistake had been made. Just before 10 p.m., those would-be law students who were accepted without applying received another message from Dean Salkin:

Touro Law Dean Salkin Please Pardon the Gaffe Acceptance Rescind NYE Email

It’s probably a good thing that these people don’t know about Restatement § 90 yet.

A source who contacted us about Touro Law’s New Year’s Eve “gaffe” had this to say:

Glad I didn’t actually apply and was waiting for this email. God bless those who did apply. They probably went out with the good news with their friends. They’ll wake up with a hangover and no acceptance. Happy New Year from Touro Law!

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We reached out to the Touro Law administration for comment, specifically as to how many students received an acceptance to Touro Law in error, and whether the ultimate cause of the malfunction was ever discovered, but have yet to receive a response.

In the meantime, perhaps it’s time for the law school to consider a new slogan — one that will be applicable when it comes to both its underwhelming bar passage rates and employment statistics. We think we’ve come up with the perfect solution.

Touro Law Center: Please Pardon the Gaffe

Feel free to add that to your résumés and thank us later, Touro Law grads.

UPDATE (01/06): According to a Touro Law spokesperson, 17,572 people on a “list of prospective students” received these congratulatory acceptance emails on New Year’s Eve, but only one of them had actually applied to the school (and that person hadn’t actually been accepted). We imagine that individual was devastated when the acceptance was rescinded. Touro has “put safeguards in place to ensure this will not happen again.”

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