Harvard Business School: You Peek, You Lose

mosel-saar-ruwer writes "Seems Harvard Business school was using the ApplyYourself web service to process applications. Sometime in the last few days, an anonymous hacker, known as 'brookbond', was able to crack the system, and discovered that Harvard had already posted acceptance letters to the website fully a month before they were to be mailed to their recipients. He posted instructions on how applicants could view their letters at the BusinessWeek forums, and approximately 119 applicants followed his advice. Today, the dean of the Harvard Business School, one Kim Clark, announced that none of the 119 would be admitted: 'This behavior is unethical at best -- a serious breach of trust that cannot be countered by rationalization... Any applicant found to have done so will not be admitted to this school.'"

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[Locke2005]

Harvard (rightly so) decided to not admit any of the 119 even though some of them possibly were initially accepted.Gee, what are the chances that some of those 119 were people peeking at other people's result? In other words, what proof does Harvard have that this ethics violation was actually committed by each and every one of the people they are now refusing to admit, and not somebody else using one of those person's personal information? Maybe the Harvard admissions department should ask one of the Harvard law professors to explain the concept of "due process" to them!