"More than 1,000 prospective MBA students who paid $30 to use a now-defunct Web site to get a sneak peak at live questions from the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) before taking the exam may have their scores canceled in coming weeks. For many, their B-school dreams may be effectively over..."

Here is the full story...I hope no one here used scoretop.com

http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/jun2008/bs20080623_153722.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_news+%2B+analysis

This could get ugly....very ugly....  

Time for these guys to move on to Option B: Take the GRE and apply only to Stanford or IE and pray that they get in...assuming they didn't send a GMAT score to Stanford or IE.

They have a point in the article that the people who used the site probably are the type going for top schools not the local state school who just need to break 550.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out.  I mean its obvious some folks wont be able to apply to any b-school that requires the GMAT (very very few accept the GRE) but what about the ones who are in schools already.  Without a valid GMAT they could be removed from the program...I am surprised this has gotten so little attention, it was a little story on the bottom of the front page of BW not even in the school section.  I can see this snowballing like the Fuqua scandal as more comes out about this. 

Sounds like potentially good news for those waitlisted.  I wonder what the effect, if any, there would be to the non-cheaters' scores when the cheaters' scores are removed from the pool.

Unless of course the waitlisted people cheated too. They should be sweating bullets.

Garbage!

 I took my GMAT straight up and quite frankly I don’t care if my competitors used this website.  In my mind they have done nothing wrong and should not be punished.

On my applications there were no boxes that said “Check here if you used a questionable website to study for the GMAT.”  If there had been one of these then I would see the problem, but right now I do not.

BUT as many of you said – This is probably good news for waitlisters.

It is in one of the agreements you have to agree to before you begin the test. 

Well then...lets take them to the stake!

*i still dont see it as different from Kaplan though*

Lets see in six months time, GMAC finds out that other test preparation companies (veritas, manhattan etc) had some questions in their sample questions database that were 'very' similar to the original questions (just assume). Would they cancel scores of everyone who used veritas/manhattan/etc's services?

Unless the scoretop specifically said that they were selling leaked/live GMAT questions and even then students decided to buy these questions, from legal prespective, I do not think GMAC can do anything against these students.