Hundreds of people were evacuated at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center this afternoon after a fight broke out between participants at the Greater Washington National College Fair.

WAMU reports that D.C. police responded to the convention center after a small group of students attending the conference got into a scuffle around 11:30 a.m. The worst part of the story? The evacuation meant that some students missed their chance to go inside and talk with college representatives, because the event only lasted until 1 p.m.:

Sherryl Wilson, 16, is in 11th grade at National Collegiate Prep Public Charter School in southeast D.C. She and her classmates stand on the sidewalk outside the Convention Center, waiting for their bus to take them back to school. They didn’t even get to go into the fair.

“I’m upset. I was preparing myself, had questions in mind everything. Now I can’t,” Wilson says. She doens’t know how her questions about different programs and financial aid will be answered, she adds.

There were no arrests made in connection with the fight.