Bomb squad destroyed suspicious package at Texas A&M General Services Complex evacuated about 10:45 a.m. Thursday; university announces package destroyed about 12:45 p.m.

Texas A&M University issued an alert Thursday morning.

One applicant to Texas A&M University certainly caught the top-tier institution's attention on Thursday.

Texas A&M University admissions office was processing a prospective student's submitted materials on Thursday morning when an employee found wires inside a package. A note read "Flip Switch."

The College Station emergency response team -- including a bomb squad -- leaped into action.

Hundreds of people evacuated the General Services Complex, which houses the university's admissions office, at about 10:45 a.m., and the university issued a campuswide "Code Maroon" safety alert. Officials said people should stay away from the building, an outlying facility located about a mile northwest of the Memorial Student Center at the heart of campus.

A bomb squad destroyed the package, initially using a robotic device to take it outside the building. A water cannon then "(rendered) it safe," the university police department said.

"When questioned, the investigator was told the item was a battery-operated light set, which was designed to draw attention to the included admissions application," the police department said.

(About two-thirds of applicants are accepted, according to U.S. News and World Report.)

The building reopened about two hours later.

Police and emergency vehicles outside the general services compex. #codemaroon pic.twitter.com/O3TffwCYrY — Brad Morse (@bradsmorse53) December 8, 2016

"We're glad to have a happy and uneventful ending," university spokesman Lane Stephenson said.