Kanazawa University mistakenly rejected six applicants who passed its 1997 and 1998 entrance exams due to computer errors, university officials said Monday.
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| Top officials of Kanazawa University bow in apology upon revealing that applicants were wrongly rejected in 1997 and 1998. |
The state-run university in Ishikawa Prefecture rejected the six based on the results of the exams in physics and chemistry, according to the officials.
The revelation comes on the heels of similar errors in the entrance examination tallying process at two other state-run universities — Yamagata University and Toyama University.
According to the education ministry, those who were rejected by Kanazawa University in 1997 were three applicants for the physics department and two for the chemistry department. In 1998, one applicant for the university's physics department was mistakenly rejected.