Kaitlynn Lovelady didn’t realize she had applied to the wrong college until she opened her email and saw the acceptance letter.
On Monday, the Louisiana native got her answer firsthand during an all-expenses-paid trip to Utah and a guided tour of the campus by top administrators. She walked through the library, the financial aid office and the basketball arena in Taylorsville. A pack of reporters followed closely behind.
“I guess so,” Lovelady, 21, responded with a thick southern accent. “When I was walking downtown Friday night, some guy stopped me and said, ‘You’re that girl who applied to the wrong college.