Sitting at the center of a controversy over how one of the world’s top business schools doles out financial aid, 26-year-old Adam Allcock considers himself an unlikely whistleblower.

Last fall, the second-year student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business presented the school’s dean with a 378-page analysis of nearly a decade of scholarship decisions. It said the school’s methods for awarding financial aid favored women and domestic students at the expense of men and foreigners.

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