At least two hopeful applicants to Carnegie Mellon's prestigious Tepper School of Business will not be receiving an acceptance letter. Instead, they find themselves among several hundred other disgraced would-be MBAs who followed instructions posted on the Internet to try and get advance notice of their admission status.
The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon is one of several business schools that use Apply Yourself Inc., to host their admission system. Last week, instructions were posted by an unknown individual on the forums of BusinessWeek's Web site that showed how to access Apply Yourself's networks, which host the admission system for several top business schools, including those at Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth and MIT. Harvard and Carnegie Mellon said that any identified hackers will be automatically rejected for admission. A tough pill to swallow for applicants who spent hundreds of hours on their business school applications only to lose it all in a five minute surrender to curiosity. And to add insult to injury, Carnegie Mellon hadn't yet made its admission decisions, so the hackers were greeted by only a blank screen.
The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon is one of several business schools that use Apply Yourself Inc., to host their admission system. Last week, instructions were posted by an unknown individual on the forums of BusinessWeek's Web site that showed how to access Apply Yourself's networks, which host the admission system for several top business schools, including those at Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth and MIT. Harvard and Carnegie Mellon said that any identified hackers will be automatically rejected for admission. A tough pill to swallow for applicants who spent hundreds of hours on their business school applications only to lose it all in a five minute surrender to curiosity. And to add insult to injury, Carnegie Mellon hadn't yet made its admission decisions, so the hackers were greeted by only a blank screen.
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