Missed GMAT Twice!!

[AndreaG287]

I hope an instructor can please answer this - twice now I have scheduled a GMAT very far in advance, completely forgot about it due to illness and other unfortunate life circumstances over the past year, and because I never got any alerts, calendar or otherwise, I did not reschedule - does this impact my admission??? The dates were Jan 17 and Sept 26. I have read online there is no way for schools to tell I was a "no show" since I never even went to the center, but now I am getting extremely concerned. I can't believe I let this happen twice. If someone could clearly tell me if 1. schools can see this or not, and 2. if there is any, even the smallest amount of negative impact on my application, please let me know. I just feel like an idiot.

Any advice would be extremely helpful,

Andrea

[StaceyKoprince]

No, if you don't show up for the test, the information does not show up on your record in any way.

Let's talk a little about what's going on, though. Were you picking a far-out test date to try to motivate / push yourself to study for the test? (The idea being: if I pay for it and schedule it, then I *have* to study for it.) Or was there some other reason?

Are you sure that you actually want to take the GMAT / go to business school? I'm asking because you've tried twice now to schedule the test, seemingly to force yourself to do it, but then you didn't do it. I'm wondering whether you feel like you "should" want to go to b-school (maybe because other people in your life have suggested it or are doing it themselves or...?) - but maybe you don't actually really want to go to b-school.

You don't have to answer me - but these questions may be good for you to think about, or to talk about with someone you trust to have your best interests in mind and not to push you down a path that you may not want to go down.