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Anyone else from India who has received a call?

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Did anyone get in with a GMAT waiver?

Hey Congrats on getting in! You mentioned it will be update at 5 right? is it 5am/pm? EST? can you please confirm?

My adcom said that they didn’t have any news re scholarship etc, they only had the admissions decision? Not sure if that’s the case for others

Did they specifically tell you you’d been accepted + received a scholarship, or just that details are posted at 5? (also who called you just curious, that helps clarify where any discrepancy may be)

Hello scholarship yet to be announced IITB Grad, 3.5 years of front end management consulting experience at a Japanese management consulting firm, GRE 331 (170Q) Got a call from Holly Middaugh, she had interviewed me I had been directly dinged by LBS and INSEAD last week - what a sigh of relief. Keep believing people, all we need is one admit