Stanford Rejects Business School Hackers

robbarrett writes "The Stanford Report offers the next chapter in a continuing story about business school applicants manipulating URLs on the ApplyYourself system to determine their personal admission status. Harvard immediately rejected the 'hacker' applicants, but Stanford gave 'offenders' the opportunity to defend their actions. However, none of the competitive applicants 'was able to explain his/her actions to our satisfaction,' according to Stanford's dean, so all were rejected. The story mentions the decisions reached by other schools involved in the mess."

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Re:If they had been Comp Sci students....

[Anonymous Coward]

"Whats the difference of finding out now or later that you didnt get accepted to Stanford?"

Knowing where, or where not to put your energy in perhaps ?

Return of the H@x0r

[Anonymous Coward]

Episode VI

RETURN OF THE H@X0R

Applicant-1337 has returned to
his home planet of ParentsBasement in
an attempt to rescue his
friend University Education from the
clutches of the vile gangster
The Big Guy.

Much does Hax0r know that the
HARVARD EMPIRE has controversially
begun construction on a new
armored hax0r-rejection policy even
more powerful than the first
dreaded competitive admission system.

When completed, this ultimate
weapon will spell certain doom
for the small band of hax0rs
struggling to restore freedom
to the interweb....

Re:They got what they deserve

[Anonymous Coward]

They showed they lack good judgment and a sense of ethics.

Exactly. It's right that they should be rejected since they already have the skills that business school would teach them.

Re:If they had been Comp Sci students....

[Bush Pig]

These people are deliberately trying to get MBAs. I'd say they deserve everything that happens to them, up to and including being boiled in oil. Fuck 'em.

Let's ask the man on the street

[blair1q]

"We're shocked - SHOCKED! to find that b-school applicants have no integrity."
--American Business

Only 4

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's say SBS has an acceptance rate of 10%.
So of those 41, only 4 would have gotten in anyway.
What's the big deal?

Stanford decided to sacrifice 4 people to make
themselves look good and ethical and get some PR.

Do I get accepted now?

Re:Business Ethics 0.99?

[the morgawr]

While we are on the subject, I'd like to point out that as a busness owner I'm deeply offended and concerned by the implication made by Harvard and Stanford that a separate and different set of ethics applies in business than in the rest of human relations.

Re:If they had been Comp Sci students....

[Create an Account]

All right, now. You two are being entirely too mature and reasonable, here. This is Slashdot, not Sesame Street. I want to hear some personal imprecations, I want to hear some ad hominem, and dammit, I want to hear someone get called an asshat!

Sheesh.

Re:Unfair treatment

[Stealth Potato]

"'If one swallow does not a summer make', how many do?"

Are they African or European swallows?

Re:If they had been Comp Sci students....

[FLEB]

Hey, what gives? It's my URL field, I'll type in it if I want to!