Stanford’s Graduate School of Business likewise chose to look at each affected applicant on a case-by-case basis, asking the 41 prospective students to write letters explaining their actions.

“Given the implications for each applicant, we felt that a fair process was as important as a just outcome,” said GSB Dean Robert Joss in an April 1 statement.

But Stanford eventually decided to reject all 41 applicants.

“At the end of the day, we didn’t hear any stories that we thought were compelling enough to counterbalance the act,” Joss told CNN last month.

Although each of the six schools reached their own conclusions concerning how to deal with the affected applicants, no consensus appears to have emerged dictating an appropriate response for future cases.

Kenneth S. Ledeen, chairman of Nevo Technologies and Harvard teaching fellow, explained that ethical questions raised by the incident cannot be easily resolved.

“The reason you don’t see much of a consensus is that people don’t have a clear framework through which to view it,” he said.

According to HBS spokesman James E. Aisner, HBS received 6,559 applications and provided about 1,000 offers of admission, leading to an acceptance rate of 15 percent.

HBS’s yield figure has not been finalized, but Aisner says the school expects it will hover around 90 percent.

—Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu.