Sucks to Be These People

I just read in the Wall Street Journal that Wharton, Chicago, and Stanford all have students or alumni who had their GMAT scores cancelled because of their links to Scoretop.

Just 84 people had their scores cancelled, but it looks like at least some of them actually found their way into top business schools. Chicago has two newly enrolled students who had their scores cancelled and Stanford has one alumnus with a cancelled score. Wharton just said they have three "current and past students" have had their scores cancelled.

I bet the schools will go out of their way to teach these people a lesson. Sucks to be them, although it sounds like they deserve it, if they were actually some of the ones providing GMAT questions to the site.

Take the GMAT, Get a Free Palm Reading

The people who run the GMAT have announced that, starting this month in select locations, GMAT test takers will have to have their palms scanned. The MBA.com site explained all of this in the warmly titled "Vein Recognition: Frequently Asked Questions."

I get it. They don't want people faking their identities and taking the GMAT for other people. But it's sad that there's a cottage industry for this trickery, and that they have to resort to this Big Brother machinery to stamp it out.

It's interesting that, if you refuse to have your palm scanned, you can't take the exam. What it you lost your hands in a tragic farming accident...?