MBA Schools on Scoretop Penalties

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UCLA-Anderson School of Management

"We have not yet made a decision. Like many MBA programs, we're in a holding pattern until we have actual evidence that someone has cheated…We would consider a number of options. We could prevent them from being admitted if they're prospective students. Another option for current students would be to prevent them from graduating. I'm not sure what we'd do about alumni." —Mae Jennifer Shores, assistant dean and director of MBA admissions

Vanderbilt University-Owen Graduate School of Management

"I haven't seen enough info regarding the content available to VIP users of the site, or how apparent it would have been to those using the VIP site that they were accessing live questions…I expect that GMAC would have hard evidence implicating a student in actual cheating to cancel a score. We're waiting on GMAC to determine what to do. A lot depends on the information available to GMAC. From Vanderbilt's standpoint, we will take this very seriously." —John Roeder, director of admissions

Washington University-Olin Business School

"We need to wait to find out more information from GMAC. Based on that information, the steps could be anywhere from simply ignoring it, if it doesn't seem like anything, to if seems they violated in a serious way the appropriateness of the test and therefore the appropriateness of the process. If it's serious enough we could say the test score is canceled and the application canceled. If they're in the program we could expel them and if they've not started we could rescind the offer. If we thought it was both factual and serious. We wouldn't do anything without contacting the student or prospective student first to give them a chance to tell us their side of the story." —Joe Fox, assistant dean, director of MBA programs

Yale University School of Management

"We'll take it on case-by-case basis. We reserve the right to action we feel is appropriate. We want to know what [the students'] conduct was and what level of implication will be, whether they used the site innocently or innocuously, or if they were breaching GMAC requirements if they were posting to the site." &mdashBruce DelMonico, director of admissions

Unavailable or did not provide comment: Columbia University, Cornell University, Emory University, Harvard University, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, New York University, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Virginia.

Reporting by Andrea Castillo, Sara Hennessey, Matthew Lawyue, Francesca Levy, and Dan Macsai.

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