<p>I just heard about this in my school, and I don't know what to think. A kid, we'll call him John somehow hacked into my friend, we'll call him Dave's email and rescinded all of Dave's applications. Dave is very smart, he got deferred early from Caltech, but he applied to a bunch of schools. John just didn't rescind at MIT and the top schools, he rescinded at every single one of Dave's schools. Dave found out when he checked the status. When asked for the rationale behind his spiteful act, John simply said he was jealous. He has been suspended from school for the rest of the year.</p>
<p>When I heard this from my teacher I couldn't believe it, it shous how crazy some people really are.</p>
<p>***.. dave shouldnt go to college</p>
<p>um, you mean John? What a terrible thing to do.</p>
<p>Did dave end up being okay, i.e. did the colleges re-review his application?</p>
<p>I don't believe in God or heaven, but I like to think that people like John will burn in the fires of hell.</p>
<p>this sounds like one of those "urban legends" to me. In cases like this the police should be called because this is a serious computer crime(identity theft, fraud, etc), not just something that gets you "suspended from school for the rest of the year". That's why I think it's not really true.</p>
<p>I agree with mikemac. If a student really did that, the student would be facing expulsion, a lawsuit and a police record. The school also probably would be facing a lawsuit for having computers with sensitive information accessible to students.</p>
<p>Your counselor could probably call up and explain the situation to the colleges. But yeah, it really sounds like an urban legend.</p>
<p>how do you rescind apps using only emails? they dont send passwords that way, and its impossible to do that from a student account on the college's website anyway. Caltech doesnt even have an online account system, and mit's system has minimum options.
sounds like a big load of bs to me</p>
<p>No, I withdrew one of my applications through email.</p>
<p>i withdrew MIT through email.</p>