Why did Harvard Business School accept Maria Sharapova?

Why did they accept her? I don't even think she took the GMAT! I think famous people have it way easy and this isn't fair to their applicants/students who go/went through very tough admission process. Someone needs to sue them.

Secondly, accepting her contradicts their values and their image because Maria publicly admitted to doping which clearly goes against what they stand for. Doesn't matter how successful a person is, I think cheating should be a solid reason to reject them.

What are your thoughts on this?

 

A very base level of googling would show you that she took a week-long executive education course and is hardly the first celebrity to do so.

Alternatively, who the hell cares?

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It was tending on Facebook and Twitter. Googled but didn't find anything regarding courses she's taking. The article said she wanted to "occupy her two years" so I assumed it was the MBA.

 

Her "cheating" is a ridiculous hype. The stuff she took is not any kind of steroid or growth hormone or something like that, it's a very basic mild chem available from a drug store, similar to vitamins or riboxine or creatine et cetera. Even regular (non-pro) kids that do sports in ex-USSR often take it.

It was only made illegal by WADA starting with Jan 1st 2016, and Masha's positive test dates from Jan 26th. It is pretty understandable that she missed that.

 

Who would care if she was able to get into the HBS even for their MBA. She's the top .00001% of the human population athletically and probably pretty damn smart.

Also her 'doping' is bullshit. Newly banned drug and it was hyped up way too much.

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Who said HBS is about smarts, its about presitge and Maria has already got tons of it.

Probably, she has sweat more than even the top MBA applicants. Getting a shot at Wimdbeldon is infinitely harder than cracking a gmat score & going through 4 yr college routine & earning few years work exp. The latter is dime a dozen...

 

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