American Idol winner Scotty McCreery has been accepted to East Carolina University, according to multiple sources including a tweet from the university.

The ECU Admissions Twitter feed welcomed the Garner High School singer Tuesday morning, but the tweet has since been removed.

The announcement of admission status is up to applicants, according to university spokeswoman Mary Schulken, “and we want to treat Scotty the same way we would treat any other potential student. The tweet was not consistent with policy so we took it down.”

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