Harvard to Reject Applicants that Peeked

Posted by Clear Admit on March 8, 2005, at 7:06 pm
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In the latest chapter of the HBS admissions glitch, Harvard’s Dean, Kim B. Clark, issued a statement to indicate that the school would be rejecting those candidates who took an early peek at their admissions results by altering the URLs in the ApplyYourself admissions system.

Although many of the leading MBA programs use the same admissions software package (and were vulnerable due to the loophole), reaction seems to have varied somewhat from school to school. Derrick Bolton, Stanford‘s director of MBA admissions indicated that they would listen to what applicants had to say about accessing their files.

Today’s Harvard Crimson has the full story: http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article506247.html

Reuters has picked up the story as well:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7841543

Of course, these developments have sparked a great deal of debate:
http://forums.businessweek.com/bw-bschools/messages?msg=61983.7
http://forums.businessweek.com/bw-bschools/messages?msg=61983.21
http://wakechick.blogspot.com/2005/03/hbs-hackers-blacklisted.html
http://s2s.wharton.upenn.edu/wh-wharton/messages?msg=8642.145