New York ( CNN ) -- More than two-thousand college-bound students applying to Fordham University received an e-mail Wednesday night informing them they had been accepted to the school , when in fact their status was still unresolved , Fordham University says . `` Congratulations once again on your admission to Fordham , '' the e-mail read . The e-mail was sent to thousands of prospective students who had applied for early admission to New York 's Fordham University , said Bob Howe , senior director of communications for Fordham . However , 2,500 of those newly accepted-to-Fordham students received congratulations in a financial aid related e-mail , which usually comes after a proper acceptance letter , Fordham University said in a statement . Fordham sent a correction e-mail later Wednesday evening and all applicants were able to check their admission status online by midday Thursday , according to the statement . Five-hundred were ultimately not admitted , while the rest were deferred until March or had incomplete applications , Howe said . Netta Walker , 17 , from Jacksonville , Florida , felt the same disappointment . Walker was wrongfully accepted to Fordham 's Lincoln Center campus as a musical theater major . `` The fact that they accepted me and then denied me was really painful , '' Walker said . `` My dad was really upset about it . It was n't the fact that I was denied , it was the fact that they sent a denial after an acceptance . '' `` My wife and I were there for our daughter . She still has opportunities . What if some poor kid out there thought this was their only opportunity and they had no one to help them ? It 's terrible , '' said Netta 's father , Antonio Walker . The inaccurate e-mail was mistakenly sent by a member of Student Aid Services , a third-party company that serves as an undergraduate admission consultant to Fordham , said Mary Fallon , a Communications Consultant for Student Aid Services . Student Aid Services said the mistaken acceptances were a result of human error and there is no indication of a computer glitch that could lead to errors in any of the other 700 secondary schools it provides services , Fallon said . `` We are devastated by the error that has occurred today and extremely upset by the anguish that we have caused . Please accept our most sincere and heartfelt apologies , '' Craig Carroll , CEO of Student Aid Services , wrote Wednesday evening . Fordham University said it `` deeply regrets that some applicants were misled by the financial aid notice '' and `` is working with SAS to find out what went wrong , and will put procedures in place to ensure such a mistake does n't happen again . ''
CNN tells 500 applicants they 're in when their status is uncertain . E-mail sent by a third party about financial aid mistakenly includes congratulations . 2,500 not accepted , others are deferred until today or had incomplete applications .