<p>I was just wondering... (and forgive me if someone else has posted this before)
if you go to the following link: <a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/admitted/login.cgi%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/admitted/login.cgi</a> and try using the access number that they gave you when you first applied, is it possible that it would let you in if they already put you in their system as admitted? </p>
<p>Just wondering!</p>
<p>clever...but no</p>
<p>lol!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>doubt it!!!</p>
<p>man... really good thinking... but i doubt it will work.</p>
<p>i can't log in so i hope no one else can either =P</p>
<p>I can't log in.</p>
<p>Why not just wait? It's only six days to go. Finding out 6 days earlier doesn't change anything.</p>
<p>It's a really bad idea to try something like this.</p>
<p>Several years ago, a number of business schools, including Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School and MIT's Sloan School, had a security hole in their on-line application software that unintentionally allowed applicants to see their status early. Information about how to access their applicant status on-line was posted on a Business Week discussion forum and a number of applicants were "successful" in finding out their status.</p>
<p>Their "success" was shortlived, as Harvard Business School announced that it would revoke admission of any students who had accessed their decision status early.</p>
<p>The</a> Harvard Crimson :: News :: HBS To Reject Snooping Hopefuls</p>
<p>Although this was at HBS, not at the College, I would imagine that College admissions officials took note and have made sure their own system is as secure as possible.</p>
<p>As for whether College admissions officials would take the same drastic measures against anyone who attempted to access their decision early as HBS did, I don't think you want to find that out!</p>
<p>I don't think trying this would qualify as "hacking." At least...I hope not.</p>
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<p>Many people thought that what the HBS applicants did was not "hacking" either. It basically involved going to a specific URL and typing in the applicant access number that HBS had previously given them.</p>
<p>The</a> Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: The Lambs of HBS</p>
<p>The HBS dean, however, disagreed.</p>
<p>What a tight-wad.</p>
<p>how did he actually find out which applicants had accessed their statuses early? I don't think the login web sites would keep a record of who has logged in..</p>
<p>On the contrary, as a programmer, I can attest that it's incredibly easy and often useful to make a log of who has logged in to a site. It could be a side feature that the programmer of the website simply included for maintenance issues that was used to determine which students exploited the opportunity.</p>
<p>Which means I'll be staying away from that page for the next week...</p>
<p>hahaha that's a public website they give you, so no, trying to log in would not hurt you.</p>
<p>If you go to some backdoor url however, then yes that would be grounds for punishment.</p>
<p>user not found...</p>
<p>FYI---I am not an H applicant---but when my brother applied in 2005, this is exactly what they did in the afternoon, before the 5PM posting. They would put in their name and if they were in, they were sent to some welcome-info page. If they were not, they got user not found. Some H moderator on CC evidently called them and they fixed it after a ton of people found out, so don't expect it to still work, esp. after the b-school fiasco that year. Plus, that was just hours before. I agree with the OP who said he/she was just gonna stay clear of the site til it was time. Big Brother et al...</p>
<p>LOL I really don't think this will change anything but whatever. This isn't changing or modifying any website. You're just logging in...a person could've tried this for fun even without having viewed this thread. However, in the case of the HBS one, no one I doubt would have "thought" to change the URL for fun...they had to have read it on the BusinessWeek site where the instructions were posted.</p>
<p>worked last year, at least a few hours before decisions came out.</p>
<p>and how did they try? Where did they get that PIN number?</p>