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Students walk on the Kean University campus in 2013. The school erroneously sent out 3,000 emails to students telling them they had been accepted, according to a report.

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UNION -- About 3,000 students recently learned they had been accepted to Kean University -- except they really hadn't.

The Union school erroneously sent the emails of congratulations, according to a report on NorthJersey.com.

Kean quickly sent out another email less than 30 minutes later declaring the initial correspondence had been "sent in error," the report said.

University relations vice president Susan Wynn Kayne said in a statement the email was intended as a reminder to students who had been accepted to apply for scholarships. The school also said it hasn't made decisions on many of the applicants who got the email.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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