Discussion Scenario: You have worked in business for several years and you're now ready for some further education. You have applied to multiple prestigious MBA programs via a website that handles the application process for many of these programs.
You're anxiously awaiting replies and expect to receive them in about a month. You're up late one night and, while surfing the Web, you discover instructions for a "back door" way to take advantage of a technical glitch on the website that would allow you check the status of your application and find out if you've been accepted or rejected. Multiple steps are involved, but the instructions provide clear guidance.
Question:
Would it be right to take advantage of this information? Why or why not?
If you were the admissions director or dean of one of these schools and you learned that some applicants had taken advantage of the glitch, what would be the right thing to do?