This is an open letter to GMAC:
OfficialGMATI have been preparing for the GMAT amidst the traumatizing effects of covid pandemic - effects that are not only phycological or physiological but also financial. I run a small business with my father, and during the last six months, thanks to the pandemic, our business literally came to a screeching halt. Yet, in the face of all these extraordinarily suffocating circumstances, I continued to prepare for the GMAT, studying 22-25 hours a week for the last five to six months. Just to establish my progress, when I started my preparation, my quant score stood at a meagre 31. In my last official mba.com mock, I scored a Q49! And, let me tell you, it didn't come easy.
Having reached my desirable level of mastery over GMAT, especially over Quant, I was about to write my GMAT in a week or so. Today, I got to know that the GMAT Online exam fee has been increased from US$200 to US$250, and I am forced to delay my registering for GMAT test just because I can't afford this sudden increase of US$50. I have no other option but to wait, for God knows how long, till I am able to expend another US$50.
To put it in the mildest terms, I am truly disappointed by GMAT administrators. In these trying times, where responsible companies are coming up with ways to reduce their customers' misery, GMAC has decided to make it even worse. For a mammoth of a company like GMAC, $50 might represent a paltry sum, but for people who are struggling to make ends meet in these tough times, it might represent many days' of grocery or half their monthly bills.
For one, my voice may not be heard in the high offices of GMAT officials. But, I shall voice my concern nevertheless because I am sure there are many out there who are equally traumatized and disillusioned to hear this absolutely troubling news of GMAT fee increase.
I hope, wish, and pray that somebody, SOMEBODY, will heed to this plea, and the fee increase would be reversed. If not, I am afraid, many dreams of pursuing higher education may be indefinitely delayed, if not entirely crushed, in their infancy!