Community College Librarian

The GMAC people won their law suit against ScoreTop. They won 2.something million dollars, the list of all the poor schmucks that used the ScoreTop service as a study tool for the GMAT, plus rights to the ScoreTop domain name. Now GMAC is going to cancel the GMAT scores of some of the people who used ScoreTop because they supposedly cheated on the test. Business schools are saying they will expel current students and not admit applicants who used ScoreTop. Why?? Because ScoreTop used “live” questions–questions that are currently being used in the GMAT as opposed to other study guides that use retired GMAT questions. How did ScoreTop acquire these questions? No one is really sure!

Simple: GMAC should be out of business…how can a company who delivers an exam relied upon by so many graduate schools have such lousy security? Why are they still in business? Secondly, its not like the students wrote down these “live” questions on their hands or made a crib sheet out of them when they sat for the GMAT. Hello, GMAC and all the schools who are considering expelling students who purchased a study guide on the internet: welcome to the last two decades, for God’s sake. These students purchased and used an Internet study guide! This is not plagiarism. At least they cared enough about getting into grad school that they bothered to study! How about getting rid of these ridiculous graduate tests altogether and just relying on a student’s academic background and their application materials instead? How about interviewing students for admission? How about stopping the kickback scam that is the GRE, LSAT, GMAT, etc.? I’ve been told by more than one PhD program that they only use the GRE scores as “tie breakers” when they have more applications than available slots. One told me that they don’t even look at the scores, wink wink. Some programs have stopped requiring these exams and I congratulate them. Every person who loses an opportunity in life like grad school because of GMAC’s incompetence should file their own lawsuit.