Stanford caught lying about admissions to GSB.

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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Stanford’s GSB caught lying, discriminating.and admitting students based on value to school.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/01/stanfords-elite-business-school-caught-cheating-by-one-of-its-own-mba-students

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What’s new about top schools admitting students “based on value to school”? Does anyone truly believe that top schools admit students without considering the potential value of these students to increase the brand name of their schools? Lol

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This is actually hilarious. Only someone with the naivety of 5-year-old would be surprised with this. The most hilarious part is Harbus’ holier-than-thou attitude, as if HBS hasn’t been doing similar things for decades. They just jumped at the chance to attack their main competitor. People in glass houses really shouldn’t be throwing stones.

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“The focus on students with backgrounds in finance” makes sense for a top MBA program, no?

My smh moment is his spending 1500 hours on that. It’s more than 6 months of 8-hour days. He didn’t have anything better to do while an MBA student?

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@lookingforward Apparently not. I initially thought there was discrimination against minorities. So they ( a US school) accept more women than they should and favors US applicants over foreign applicants? Good, I say. I am an Asian American man who thinks there should be more women in prominent business positions to destroy the good old white or non white boys networks.

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I thought the article was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing @CA94309 !

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Here’s a significantly better article on this topic: https://poetsandquants.com/2017/11/30/stanford-gsb-misled-students-on-financial-aid/

He did more than an 88 page report. It was actually almost 380 pages including appendices. Sadly, you can’t find the report anywhere on line as far as I can tell as I enjoy this kind of (data) obsession.

Since he’s bitter about being unable to have a job, he might not have had anything better to do and that’s part of what I love about stories like this–the manic obsession required.

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But manic obsession may be more of an issue with post grad job hunting, unless he’s specializing in something data oriented.

A top MBA program doesn’t leave students with that much time on their hands.

If one’s accepted without a fellowship, isn’t that the time to consider other options, if you’re legitimately rational about post grad ROI?