<p>Hey everybody.</p>
<p>Good luck tomorrow with those decisions. Cant wait to meet everyone who decides to come to Cornell. All you EDers out there represent. </p>
<p>Anybody wanna chat? Post your sns when you get in!</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!</p>
<p>If you get accepted to CAS, you can expect ninja assassins from me.</p>
<p>I LOVE YOU ALL. don't be sad!! if you don't get in then.. cornell's missin' out. :)</p>
<p>(my member name is my sn :F)</p>
<p>this board isn't as crazy/hyped compared to the week before ED results were in...with the leak and all</p>
<p>Yeah, man, everyone was so excited with the leak and all in the ED round... Some people got really frightened (and for a good reason too).</p>
<p>but actually Cornell went easy on the guys who checked the results through the backdoor...when that happened for the B-schools a few years back...they rescinded the offers!!!</p>
<p>but actually Cornell went easy on the guys who checked the results through the backdoor...when that happened for the B-schools a few years back...they rescinded the offers!!!</p>
<p>Good luck to you all ... if you get in I hope you have as great experience as I did many years ago. If you don't I'm sure you have other great alternatives which will also be terrific life changing experiences. </p>
<p>Good luck!<br>
3togo ... Cornell Engineering 81'</p>
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<p>Arjun: The Harvard B-school incident is very different from Cornell's Early Decision incident. </p>
<p>In the Harvard case, the applicants hacked into the admissions site to gain access to confidential information <a href="http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/03/08/harvard_rejects_119_accused_of_hacking_1110274403/%5B/url%5D">http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/03/08/harvard_rejects_119_accused_of_hacking_1110274403/</a></p>
<p>Cornell was at fault in the ED round last December. Cornell never deactivated the link to admissions decisions from the 2004-2005 admissions cycle. A College Confidential reader followed the link from last years post, and surprise- found his admissions information. There was nothing unethical or dishonest about what the Cornell students did. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=125508%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=125508</a></p>
<p>Tahoe,
In the Cornell case, an hacker found a back-door for many people and they checked their results.
In the Harvard case, a hacker posted instructions to hack into the site.</p>
<p>the people who checked their results are as innocent in both the cases. They saw that they could access their results and fell for it. What more unfair in the Harvard case that many thought that it was a joke and their keen desire to follow this joke cost them their admission.</p>
<p>three hours and counting....cant wait to meet everyone!</p>
<p>Arjun, you said, "In the Cornell case, an hacker..." But that's just the thing. It wasn't a hack. The person just dug up the link on a hunch and tried it and it worked. He never infiltrated Cornell's system or anything of the sort. He just followed a link and capitalized on Cornell's blunder.</p>