Top Law Schools Launch Admissions War

Berkeley Prof Kicks Off Law School War

Harvard, Yale, Stanford All Fire Off Thousands of Erroneous Acceptance Letters

Believing that they may be left out of the running for some of the best legal minds, Harvard, Yale and Stanford all blasted out accidental, congratulatory emails to over 20,000 applicants for their law schools, following the disclosure that a University of California, Berkeley Law School professor sent emails to the schools candidates last week during a training session.

Edward Tom, director of admissions at the school admitted he sent the erroneous emails, while training a new office worker.

Picking out a email for the purpose of showing the worker the schools software, and its' features, including sending messages to multiple recipients, Tom mistakenly chose the standard congratulatory message on being admitted to the university’s prestigious law school, sending it to over 7,000 applicants.

A spokesperson for Harvard said that the school "couldn't afford to sit idle".

"We may have a lame-duck president, but we just couldn't let this action go unchallenged," said the spokesperson. "We didn't have time to ask Mr. Summers if he thought there was some genetic component to this, we just had to get all-hands-on-deck and pray that all the legal talent doesn't end up in Berkeley."

After discovering the moves by Berkeley and Harvard, the campuses of Yale and Stanford were in chaos over the weekend, as they rounded up staff and began firing emails to their law school candidates.

Unconfirmed reports say that, with over 20,000 emails sent, nearly 40% of the recipients have been accepted at all three law schools.

"I suspect," said Dix Holden, editor of "VeriRich", a newsletter sent to Harvard Law School students and alumni, "that some enterprising law school candidate will file a suit over this, and one of the schools will end up with a fascinating live case study for their incoming freshman."

The San Jose Mercury News' "Good Morning Silicon Valley" suggested "Tom, by the way, has asked the IT department about adding a "Do you really, really want to send" popup to the mail system."