[IP] Rejected Harvard applicants say school's reaction to Web page "hack" excessive

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Rejected Harvard applicants say school's reaction to Web page "hack"
excessive

By Jay Lindsay, Associated Press Writer  |  March 8, 2005

BOSTON --His decision came late at night, with his laptop propped in
front of him in bed. Instructions on a Web site promised business school
applicants an early online look at whether they'd been accepted.
Intrigued, he began typing.

A minute later he'd accessed the Harvard Business School's admission
site, though all he saw was a blank page.

That split-second decision cost the 28-year-old New Yorker a chance to
attend Harvard Business School this year. On Monday, Harvard became the
second school, after Carnegie Mellon, to announce its blanket rejection
of any applicant who used a method detailed in a BusinessWeek Online
forum to try to get an early glimpse at admissions decisions in top
business schools.

On Tuesday, some of the 119 applicants denied Harvard admission because
they visited the site said the school overreacted, and disputed that
accessing a public Web page with their own identification numbers was
either a "hack" or "unethical," as Harvard Business School Dean Kim
Clark said in a statement.

The applicant said he spent months completing Harvard's rigorous
application process.

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http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/03/08/harvard_appl
icants_who_hacked_into_system_rejected_for_admission/

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