Article: Yale Accuses Princeton of Unauthorized Viewing of Online Admissions Data.

By Mary Leonard, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 26--WASHINGTON--Yale University officials yesterday called on the FBI to investigate unauthorized snooping by members of Princeton University's admissions staff at a Web site Yale set up to inform applicants if they had been admitted to the Ivy League school.

Yale alleges that in April, Princeton admissions personnel used Social Security numbers and birth dates to go online 18 times and secretly access information on the admissions status of 11 prospective Yale students. Princeton apparently had the personal information because the Yale applicants had applied to both ...

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