"Test-optional admission policies and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) scores to decline among incoming students at many of the nation’s top business schools. “Of the 37 top-50 MBA programs in the United States for which data is available, average scores for the incoming MBA Class of 2022 fell at 30. Seven of the top 10 schools experienced declines from 2019, averaging 3.6 points… In the top 25, 18 schools saw their scores drop an average of 5.5 points.” Only three of the top 25 business schools reported that average GMAT scores did not go down: UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, NYU Stern School of Business and Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business. From 2015 through 2020, only three top-25 business schools reported that the average GMAT score of their incoming MBA classes had declined."How many of you were affected by this pandemic? How did you cope with it? Thanks.