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(Source: Dartmouth College)Hacking into computers to learn your admissions fate evidently isn't enough to earn you a ding from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. The school recently announced that it will admit some of the 17 people who committed the online crime, breaking ranks with Harvard, MIT and Carnegie Mellon, which rejected well over 100 such perpetrators outright.

This snippet comes from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

In many cases "their curiosity got the better of them," dean Paul Danos said by phone yesterday. "All of them expressed remorse. Some were admitted. Some were rejected.

"While the Tuck School determined that the actions reflected negatively on each applicant involved, we concluded that the actions did not reach the level that would necessarily bar a person from being a valued member of the Tuck community," he said. "The involvement in this incident was deemed a very important negative factor, but only one of many factors in our admissions decisions."

Danos said the hackers who were admitted—he would not say how many—would be monitored and counseled, and that the incident would be included in their files.And the lesson they learned would be…?

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