Tuck applicants hack website for results
Having gone through the college application process, most Dartmouth students understand the agony of having to sit and wait for institutions to make their admission decisions. But some impatient business-school applicants decided to find out their fates early this year by hacking into admissions information at several prominent institutions, including Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and the business schools of Duke, Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon Universities. A hacker going by the name "brookbond" posted instructions on a Business Week online forum describing how applicants could check their admissions status before they were officially notified. "I know everyone is getting more and more anxious to check [the] status of their apps to [Harvard Business School]," the hacker wrote in a message which remained on the website for over nine hours before being removed by site administrators.