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TexasTowelie

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Fri Dec 1, 2017, 10:18 PM Dec 2017

Stanford's elite business school caught cheating by one of its own MBA students

STANFORD — Half the students at Stanford University’s elite, $70,000-per-year business school receive fellowship grants. For years, the school has made it clear that the money goes to those who might otherwise be unable to attend, or who might be forced — against school recommendations — to work part-time during the Master of Business Administration program.

”All fellowships are need-based,” says promotional material from the Graduate School of Business. “It’s important to understand that we do not negotiate fellowship amounts or eligibility.”

But now, thanks to a huge breach of students’ personal financial data, the school has been caught cheating — by one of its own.

In February, MBA student Adam Allcock discovered 14 terabytes of confidential student data from financial aid applications, according to a new report. Later that month, Allcock reported the breach to the school’s financial aid director, and the records were removed within an hour, the report said.

However, Allcock had dug deeply into the data, spending 1,500 hours analyzing the information and putting together an 88-page report, according to Poets&Quants, a website covering business school news.

Read more: http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/12/01/stanfords-elite-business-school-caught-cheating-by-one-of-its-own-mba-students/

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Stanford's elite business school caught cheating by one of its own MBA students (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2017 OP
Article says preference given to women and non-foreigners. Not solely needs based. bobbieinok Dec 2017 #1

bobbieinok

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1. Article says preference given to women and non-foreigners. Not solely needs based.
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 10:33 PM
Dec 2017

Problem seems to be that they said they were doing one thing but were doing sonething else.

Not illegal, just misrepresenting.

Women getting preference because of all business schools wanting to get more women into upper business ranks. Non-foreigners given prefernce because of national decline in native-born students in business schools.

Goals not bad. Mistake was in misrepresenting what they were doing.

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