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UCB MFE background check at UCB?
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This is pretty routine process. They have already done this to their MBA applicants. Stories like Jeffrey Chiang wouldn't look good for them if they admit and graduate someone who lied in their application.
UC Berkeley Checking Up on MBA Students
By Rebecca Trounson, Times Staff Writer|March 15, 2003
UC Berkeley Checking Up on MBA Students - Los Angeles Times
All too aware of a spate of scandals in the corporate world, officials at UC Berkeley's graduate business school are running background checks this year on all students earmarked for admission, and have recently rejected a handful for lying.
Of 100 students who have qualified thus far for admission to the fall class at the Haas School of Business, five were rejected in February after they were discovered to have made false claims about their work histories, said Jett Pihakis, director of domestic admissions for the school's full-time MBA program.
The most egregious case involved a student who had fabricated a record of promotions at his job, and included a letter of recommendation purportedly written by a supervisor but actually written by an assistant. All five had strong enough backgrounds that they would have been admitted if they had told the truth, Pihakis said.
"It's such a shame," he said. "But ethics is very important in any field, and in business right now you want to make sure that the people you're admitting are who and what they say they are."
UC Berkeley Checking Up on MBA Students
By Rebecca Trounson, Times Staff Writer|March 15, 2003
UC Berkeley Checking Up on MBA Students - Los Angeles Times
All too aware of a spate of scandals in the corporate world, officials at UC Berkeley's graduate business school are running background checks this year on all students earmarked for admission, and have recently rejected a handful for lying.
Of 100 students who have qualified thus far for admission to the fall class at the Haas School of Business, five were rejected in February after they were discovered to have made false claims about their work histories, said Jett Pihakis, director of domestic admissions for the school's full-time MBA program.
The most egregious case involved a student who had fabricated a record of promotions at his job, and included a letter of recommendation purportedly written by a supervisor but actually written by an assistant. All five had strong enough backgrounds that they would have been admitted if they had told the truth, Pihakis said.
"It's such a shame," he said. "But ethics is very important in any field, and in business right now you want to make sure that the people you're admitting are who and what they say they are."
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Market Crises= Gray Hair
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Ok, he's suffered enough. Time to let it go.
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