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Elvira Kurt mocks Carnegie Mellon admission debacle

In this week's instalment of Q's Cultural Hall of Shame, Elvira Kurt calls out Carnegie Mellon University for mistakenly accepting 800 applicants to its prestigious computer science programme. The problem? A computer glitch.
Maybe Carnegie Mellon should have called up successful applicants instead. (Carnegie Mellon)

In this week's instalment of Q's Cultural Hall of Shame, Elvira Kurt calls out Carnegie Mellon University for mistakenly accepting 800 applicants to its prestigious computer science programme. The problem? A computer glitch.

"Suck it up and buy a couple portables for the back field," says Elvira. 

Click here on the listen button above to hear Elvira's latest column (audio runs 0:07:50).