As many of you already know, Harvard Business School has been having some issues with their online application system in R2. The storyline is as follows:
1) HBS uses the ApplyYourself software package for their online admissions application. ApplyYourself supplies this software package to several top schools (Duke, Stanford, MIT, etc).
2) Since receiving the R2 applications in early January, the admissions team at HBS has been making application decisions on an internal basis. These decisions are stored in the ApplyYourself system until the official R2 release date (March 30th).
3) Someone out there in MBA-applicant land figured out a way for applicants to determine their HBS R2 admissions results in advance by tweaking URL addresses to access the decision page. See PowerYogi’s blog for all the technical details on this matter.
4) Instructions for cracking the system were posted in the BW Forums. They were promptly deleted by the moderators. Several discussion threads have come up since, but they have been deleted as well. We have not seen additional discussion surface at Studylink or on other sites as of yet.
5) In response to this, it seems as if HBS has managed to pull the decisions off of the site for the moment.
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