School wrongly gave scholarships to 58 students. Now it's making it right.

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Central Michigan University is blaming a technical error for mistakenly telling the students they'd been awarded a full ride.

A university's new student messaging system resulted in a costly clerical error after staff members were testing out the technology.

"He was absolutely over the moon when he got the message," the mother of one of the students, 17-year-old Parker Christensen, told CMU'sIt was a mistake. On Sunday, the students were informed that they hadn't won scholarships, after all. The university blamed the error on a technical failure and said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch that staff members were testing a new messaging technology over the weekend.

 

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Oh well. It was meant to be.

'scholarshit!' -Employee who discovered the error

Hmmmmmm I call that scholarship manna.

Scott’s Tots can finally go to college!

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