Stanford's elite business school caught cheating by one of its own MBA students
STANFORD Half the students at Stanford Universitys 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. Its 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 schools 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.
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