General GMAT Chat

Hi akshay36,

Did GMAC confirm how the refund process would work in their mail response? I'm unfamiliar with refunds, but my best bet would be to pursue the email route and try to call their help centre's hotline.

Hope you get your refund soon!

yes gmac did !
That too twice !
however no refund has been initiated yet !

That’s got to be frustrating after a month. Are they still responding to your follow up emails?

They always ask for a weeks time . I wait for two 😅 .
I mailed them again two days back.
However i thought it would be better if i ask someone here for some advice .
Thanks

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help. It’s definitely a tricky situation considering GMAC has all the power here. Keep at it with the mails. Do try calling their helpline, sometimes it helps to talk to a rep in real time.
Fingers crossed things work out asap!!

Sorry, If I am interrupting in between your conversation. But, if your test was cancelled due to mismatch in name with our ID proof that is passport then you won’t get any refund from GMAC. It’s clearly mentioned in the mba.com website.Thanks!

Still thanks for the concern !

No it wasn’t!
I got a mail 6 days prior my exam date that my appointment was cancelled

Upon enquiring further, gmac agreed that yes the appointment was canceled by them and they would initiate a refund.

I would suggest pls contact the customer care dept. in your region. And wait for them to respond for 2 to 3 working days. I hope your query will resolved soon. Just trust the process.

Hey , I am not sure if this is the right platform to ask this . But any kind of resolution would be helpful . Query -“are scholarships available for students from India applying to a top b-school ? “

Hi. Top programs offer three types of financial aid / scholarships.. There are Merrit based scholarships. This means you have I strung application in really good test scores.

Second type is diversity scholarships. These are not official but if you are pretty unique applicant and schools want to attract you, for example if you’re an athlete or you are a fighter pilot, they will offer some money to try to attract you because they want you to be a part of the class.

The final type is the need based scholarships. Only Harvard and Stanford offer these. Idea is that if you make less than $50,000 a year and you get into Harvard or Stanford, they will pay for your tuition one-way or another.

This is very general overview. Sometimes financial aid may be called a scholarship, sometimes it may be a fellowship or something else but it’s kind of all the same concept. Some schools are more generous some are less, And they usually do not disclose how much money they’re planning to offering scholarships so you don’t really know how much you will get through your chances so you kinda have to apply but the general rule is for merits scholarship you have to have a really high score. Or you have to get into Harvard or Stanford and you don’t need to worry about money 😂

any group for deferred applicants?

For some specific schools, yes. Are you looking for a particular school?

yes, hbs2+2 , mit, wharton

They would be school specific sub-forum discussions. I see a few different groups but they’re fairly small.

mchat.php?room_id=50050400

2+2 group has not had traction since the summer it seems... mchat.php?room_id=50050342

Maybe we should consolidate some of them to make them more visible/sizable

sub 200 members, i see that 😅

how are the scores calculated on the FE, earlier we used to get an estimate from the Verbal v Quants marks charts, but since the FE adds up inclusion of the Data insight section, how will be the final score calculated?

The 3 sections equally contribute to the score and proportionately based on the sectional scores.
Calculator: https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-focus-s ... 18782.html

However, nobody really knows how the sectional scores are calculated exactly and sometimes they can be surprising such as here: https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-fe-debr ... 23034.html