Harvard Rejects Applicants It Says Hacked

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Harvard Rejects Applicants It Says Hacked

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard Business School said on Tuesday it is rejecting applications from 119 would-be students who it says hacked into a Web site to learn if they were accepted at the Ivy League university ahead of the official notification.

"This behavior is unethical at best -- a serious breach of trust that cannot be countered by rationalization," Kim Clark, dean of Harvard Business School, said in a statement.

"Any applicant found to have done so will not be admitted to this school."

Harvard said 119 applicants had hacked into Virginia-based ApplyYourself, a company that manages Web pages used by students to apply to roughly 300 different universities.

"We know that 119 applicants hacked into the system -- and we know their names," said Jim Aisner, a spokesman for Harvard Business School.

Aisner declined to comment on how many of the 119 applicants would have been accepted at the school had they not broken into the ApplyYourself Web site.

Harvard is one of several top-tier universities that use ApplyYourself to tell applicants if their applications were successful.

Last week, officials at the site said a computer hacker had helped applicants break into records at some of the most prestigious U.S. business schools to see if they were accepted weeks before official offers are made.

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suncola

zixiahu

可怕

udream

now, everyone sees HBS' ugly face and arrogance. Actually, I think it was trivial but HBS made it notorious. Not sure if HBS takes this opportunity to market itself better.

zixiahu

不仅是HBS，别的学校也做出决定了，凡是被抓住的都会被拒

zixiahu

from MIT Sloan newsroom: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/deanmessage.php

Dear MIT Sloan Community:

Honesty and integrity are critical character attributes for students at the MIT Sloan School of Management. MIT Sloan regards the hacking into the application system administered by ApplyYourself Inc. to be a very serious ethical offense. ApplyYourself has informed us that 32 applicants to MIT Sloan attempted to gain unauthorized access to a section of their on-line admission accounts. These applicants will be denied admission to MIT Sloan this year.

MIT Sloan does not post information on admissions decisions until after all admissions decisions are made and released; consequently, no one who sought unauthorized access to his or her account was able to access information about the admission decision.

Richard Schmalensee
John C Head III Dean

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4star-admiral

Honesty and integrity are critical character attributes for students at whatever b-schools.

4star-admiral

What can we learn from this incident before going to b-schools?

zixiahu

很多人在尝试时没有意识到这是有风险的。我想风险意识应该是最大的收获

babychampion

天了。