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My conjecture:

I think the email went out by mistake. It doesn't have to do anything with who is admitted and who isn't. Somebody on the back end must have made some sort of an error and only a batch of people ended up getting this email.

However, it did end up revealing (like in my case) that some people's official gmat scores were missing. Now I never got a notification, and I rarely log in because any kind of status change was accompanied by an email. And as per the FAQs about official scores being reported, it seems like they cannot render a decision until the official score is in. So they cannot accept (OR REJECT) without that official score. I'm guessing my app (unless they're still making last minute decisions) will be pushed to 3rd round which honestly is worse than just being rejected right now. I don't know if I can take another couple of months of waiting.

Once again, good luck to everyone ! 4 more days

Yes but they key is- was the batch that received the e-mail a random group, or was it the list of admits.

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Hi guys,

As i can see really strange thing happened with this email sent from Chicago recently. I also got a little bit nervous. My score is listed as verified in the application. What is more i got this email (score confirmation) in august. Not sure what to think about it. Who knows what they meant...

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Yes but they key is- was the batch that received the e-mail a random group, or was it the list of admits.

After thinking it over I would tend to incline toward the list being random. Over the past couple pages we have been able to discover the following five facts:

1. It has an ‘unsubscribe’ message attached to it, meaning it is likely a marketing email ( as opposed to generated within the application system).
2. For one individual, it was sent to their email address attached to their GMAC account instead of their application account.
3. One individual received this exact email two months before they applied. Another received it in August before they applied.
4. They already verified most of us about a month ago after we received an interview request and before they make a final decision.
5. GMAC provides a website where they give access to our scores after we release them to a school.

I feel confident that this email was generated by whoever was downloading scores from the website. I would assume that the website has an option for them to send a verifying email or to not send a verifying email---Chicago Booth usually doesn’t send an email out, but whoever was doing it this time must of accidently checked the box on the website to send an email.

Now when they download scores, the website probably has a basic way they go about it. They input a search, the results come up, they highlight or check the results they want, and then they download them. There are probably a couple different ways that they can search for reports : by an individual name, by a criteria like score level, GPA level, undergrad, and by date ( ie activity in last three months, last year, last 5 years). I wouldn’t expect them to search for a group of people—they are probably constrained by the system GMAC has set up ( how would that work of inputting multiple names at once?).

So that leaves us with two options:

1) They performed a basic search with a broad range of people, then they individual checked off the 300-400 admits for this round, and then they downloaded those reports and accidentally had the send verify email box checked off. I find this unlikely—why would they do this when they already have our scores from a month ago? This seems like a lot of work, especially when you realize they would have to sift through each admit to find the highest ‘official’ score for their statistics. It would be soo much easier to just use what they have in their application system to do this. This just seems redundant.

2. They performed a routine search, which they probably do on a schedule, and they accidentally checked the verify email when they did this. I find this more likely. I would expect every couple weeks they re-download recent scores into their own personal database. Given that most people I could find with the email had fulfilled their scores after January or recently re-took the test, I would guess that they did a search for all updates from 2011, and these are the people that got the email. They probably do searches like this every month or couple weeks, and most of them we don’t know about since they don’t send us verifying emails (except for the few cases of people who got it before they applied).

That is my opinion; it is just random and not representative of anything. But only admissions could really know.

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Thanks for your reasoning, brysondavis. Good argumentation.

Quick question to those who received this e-mail. Have you recently taken/retaken the gmat?
And one more: Have you received this e-mail for the first time? or this is a duplicate?

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My conjecture:

Yes but they key is- was the batch that received the e-mail a random group, or was it the list of admits.

Thanks for summarizing well and separating facts from opinions

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i am seriously concerned. I interviewed on 2/5 and my status still reads as invite to interview... does the status change to interview complete after the interview?

No, the status doesn't change. That's normal.

Thanks a lot Driege and SEOmatt. I am relieved, just checked status and it show in progress interview complete. Good luck to everyone guys, few days to go

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I have this missing official GMAt score status since two weeks now. Have reported the score again to Booth and have sent them 3 emails during the fortnight. However there havent been any replies from the adcom. I hope this doesnt affect the final decisions.

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i am seriously concerned. I interviewed on 2/5 and my status still reads as invite to interview... does the status change to interview complete after the interview?

No, the status doesn't change. That's normal.

Thanks a lot Driege and SEOmatt. I am relieved, just checked status and it show in progress interview complete. Good luck to everyone guys, few days to go

My status still shows "Invited to Interview." Is anyone else in the same boat?

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Yep. Had my interview mid-Feb, but still shows "invite to interview" as my status. Doubt it's significant.

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Got the email too - submitted my GMATs in the third week of February. Scores are still marked as 'unverified' on the application. I doubt it's worth a call to ensure that my scores have been 'verified,' given that I just got that email. Agreed?

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I'm still hard pressed to believe that this was just nothing. Why would they be checking for official gmat scores this late in the game if it didnt have anything to do with admission decisions? And why wouldnt everyone get it?

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To add some insight, I also received the email BUT I took and ONLY took my GMAT last June, over 9 months ago.

The only way I know how to decently solve the mystery...

1. Set up a poll of people who received it and their GMAT score and solely based on the assumption that higher GMAT scorers are more likely to be admitted, see if there is any correlation.

2. Wait until Tuesday.

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madman20----With your scores unverified, do you see the 'missing official GMAT' status on your application page like the other people who did not send it in?

the academist---When did you order your score reports for Booth--at the test site 9 months ago? Or did you order it recently? Did you make any changes (like email address) to your GMAC account in the past couple months?

I admit it is a possibility that they just finished up their decisions and decided to redownload the reports for all the admits that they had--maybe someone got the admit list and then went and got the reports separately--but it strikes me as an odd thing to do if they already have most of our reports. I guess the only way to find out is if someone not applying to round 2 got the email...like a round 3 candidate or someone prepping for next year.

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Good point on if someone not applying to r2 or a r3 candidate. Has this happened to anyone. When calls start going out, people should also indicate if they got the email.

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Correction: I did actually order my report a couple weeks back to make sure they had it. It's quite possible that my email was in reference to that. Good catch.

I guess that opens up a new can of worms for me -- was that email because I requested the score, or because I was on the mass-mail list. Lol... the worrying will soon be over. Tuesday (or worse, Wednesday if I'm dinged) will have the answer.

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It seems that we have two ideas of what the email could mean:

1) Everyone who ordered a score report/retook the gmat after Jan. 1, 2011, received the email (the thinking they re-pulled these scores on some routine back office schedule).

2) Everyone who got an admit and/or waitlist got the email (the thinking that they made decisions and are now re-pulling all admit/waitlist scores for their records in some group list).

I am going with number 1, mainly because it is a marketing email and people were getting it before they even applied. It seems there could be three pieces of evidence that disprove this thinking:

a) someone ordered a score report/retook the test after Jan. 1 and did not receive the email ( not counting the last few days after this email occurred)

b) someone did not order a score/retook the gmat after Jan. 1 and did receive the email (maybe really is a admit group?)

c) someone from the wait-list for round 1 who did not order a score report/re-take the gmat after Jan. 1 and did receive the email (if it is an admit group, you would think that if anyone got off the round 1 wait-list they would also receive this email as well).

I am spending wayyyy to much time on this...... I can't wait for this to finally end.

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Is there ANYONE who got the "GMAT Score Received" email twice from "Chicago Booth Full-Time Admissions"?

FIRST: After the official scores were INITIALLY sent to Chicago Booth

SECOND: This past week.

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What date did you initially send the scores to Booth? And have you re-took/resubmitted recently?

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I'm confused - why is everybody saying Tuesday? I thought decisions went out Wed?

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I'm confused - why is everybody saying Tuesday? I thought decisions went out Wed?

They call all the admits on Tuesday. If you haven't heard by Wednesday morning when they release the decisions online, you're basically just looking to see whether you were waitlisted or dinged.

There may be an exception for some international applicants who can't be reached, but this is basically how it works.