There’s a right way and a wrong way to enter the world of higher education online. The wrong way, as over 100 Harvard Business School (HBS) applicants found out, is to hack into the admissions status system.

The Harvard Crimson Online reports:

Last Wednesday, an anonymous individual posted instructions on Business Week Online’s technology forum explaining how applicants to several top graduate schools—including the business schools at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Stanford, Dartmouth, and MIT—could view the status of their admissions applications early.

An HBS spokesman said that over 100 applicants hacked into the site during the nine-hour period before the loophole was closed. While some were able to view preliminary decisions, most found only blank files, the Boston Globe reported Saturday.

The Boston Globe reports that Harvard will reject the hack-licants.

“America’s Oldest College Newspaper,” The Dartmouth, went further than to call the individual anonymous, as it identified the hacker by the name “brookbond”. Their article is quite an eye-opener.

The hacked admissions and enrollment system is run by Fairfax, Virginia-based ApplyYourself.