"tricks" to check decisions online?

Applying to College
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<p>last year, I read on CC about people who came up with tricks to check their admission decisions a few days earlier. </p>

<p>Yeah, I know waiting a few days won’t kill anyone, but just wondering. Were there any that actually worked?</p>

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<p>Not a good idea. Schools take a very dim view of applicants breaching their on-line security.</p>

<p><a href=“Harvard rejects business-school applicants who hacked site | Computerworld”>Harvard rejects business-school applicants who hacked site | Computerworld;

<p>Excerpt:</p>

<p>“Harvard Business School said it will reject the applications of the 119 applicants who hacked into the school’s admissions Web site last week.
“I would like to have the last word on Harvard Business School’s policy regarding applicants who hacked into the ApplyYourself, Inc., Web site containing confidential admissions information,” Kim Clark, dean of the business school, said in an e-mail statement. “This behavior is unethical, at best – a serious breach of trust that cannot be countered by rationalization. Any applicant found to have done so will not be admitted to this school.”
Harvard has already said it knows the names of the 119 applicants.
Last week, a computer hacker helped applicants to several of the nation’s best business colleges and universities gain access to internal admissions records on the schools’ Web sites (see story).
Using the screen name “brookbond,” the hacker broke into the online application and decision system of Fairfax, Va.-based ApplyYourself Inc. and posted instructions on the Internet that students could use to get information about their applications before any acceptance notices ever went out.”</p>

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<p>there are legal “tricks” that have nothing to do with hacking.</p>

<p>At some schools, as soon as you’re accepted, you’ll find that you’re able to pay a deposit or register for orientation, etc, a few days before your acceptance comes in the mail. </p>

<p>The future students at my kids’ college noticed that when they would log-on to the portal and they would see a button to pay their deposit that wasn’t there before - so, they knew that they were accepted.</p>

<p>Also, some kids are able to find out that they are accepted by contacting their area rep who checks and finds out.</p>

<p>These are legal ways.</p>