NU Apps '11-'12 - Good Luck Hold Candidates!!!! <3 Forum

[Cornelius]

Mine just keeps saying the website cannot display the page...

anyone else getting this?

I keep getting the same thing!!

Okay, so it's not my comp... oh this sucks...

I just logged in again without a problem. Shrug.

[cogitoergosum]

Well, it looks like I'm not too bummed to not have a decision available today.

Out of curiosity, what is the point of a hold? Why not just keep them at complete and reevaluate the candidate later?

Good question... my best guess is that it's their attempt to make good on the 12 week (or whatever it is) commitment they give even though they aren't ready to render a decision. So they render a decision that isn't really a decision...

[cogitoergosum]

Mine just keeps saying the website cannot display the page...

anyone else getting this?

I keep getting the same thing!!

Okay, so it's not my comp... oh this sucks...

I just logged in again without a problem. Shrug.

Well, I can log in, then I click on the .pdf link, and when I try to open it it says it can't display it.

[franklyscarlet]

AAAAAA I've been actually worknig at my job and missed tso much. What's happening? someone tl;dr?

[crumpetsandtea]

I guess hold = WL sort of? I dont even know. I'm sad ):

[crumpetsandtea]

AAAAAA I've been actually worknig at my job and missed tso much. What's happening? someone tl;dr?

Nothing but holds as of yet ):

[cogitoergosum]

AAAAAA I've been actually worknig at my job and missed tso much. What's happening? someone tl;dr?

bunch of us got "decision within 24 hrs," just had a bunch of holds, and some of us are still trying to access the letter.

[Cornelius]

Well, I can log in, then I click on the .pdf link, and when I try to open it it says it can't display it.

Their system is probably still trying to upload all the letters (or something).

[cogitoergosum]

AAAAAA I've been actually worknig at my job and missed tso much. What's happening? someone tl;dr?

That's what you get for working.... Stop that.

[Cornelius]

For anyone curious:

Our Admissions Committee has completed its review of your application for admission to Northwestern Law and has decided to place it on hold.

We were impressed with many aspects of your background. However, with only one spot for every twenty applicants who apply, there are initially more admissible candidates than we have places in our entering class.

To remain eligible for further review, please submit the online response form as soon as possible but no later than April 2, 2012. Your application will be withdrawn from consideration if we do not receive your response form by that date. You may also wish to update your original application with any information that you think would assist our selection process, such as letters of continuing interest, recent grades, honors, promotions, or an additional letter of recommendation. If you have not yet interviewed with us, or if you have done an off-campus interview with an alum, you may come on-campus for a hold interview. Please note that in our efforts to be green and have a paperless process, all updates must be sent electronically via email to admissions@law.northwestern.edu.

By May, we expect to re-evaluate those candidates who have chosen to remain on hold. At that time, you will be notified whether you have been admitted, denied, or placed on the waiting list. If we can act sooner, we will do so in order to help you plan your studies.

[Ernert]

Held.

[smokeylarue]

Even though I didn't apply, Couldn't help but notice this thread is blowing up with some high drama. *grabs popcorn*

[reb402]

And for those of us that went complete more than 8 weeks ago and still received no update today...BACK TO PURGATORY.

[cogitoergosum]

cch24, still same?

[catholicgirl]

And held.

Fucking great.

[sports]

Where do you get the applicant ID #? I don't see it in any email

Edit- Nevermind I found it

[Revolver066]

Held.

[DaftAndDirect]

Hold.

I am stunned.

Stunned in a good way, or in a bad?

I'm on hold as well, but that's really all I expected considering I have 0 FT WE

Edit: Cactuar, that is exactly how I feel. I also was held at Harvard and Mich, but they just sent me e-mails. None of this "Decision letter" business.

In a bad way. I'm probably outting myself to any adcomms who follow this forum, but the whole reason I really chose to work 2 years before applying to law school was to get in to Northwestern specifically (and save some money to pay for it as well). This was a major point of my Why Northwestern essay.

I'm in at Michigan with $$ and am more than happy to attend, but the irony of getting what is basically a glorified waitlist decision from the school that pretty much defined my entire pre-law "route" is very very difficult to swallow.

Anyway #firstworldproblems

I'm obviously not the only who got less than great news today. Best of luck to all those held! I'm going to give some serious thought to whether or not I stay on for the long haul.

[Mr. Somebody]

Wow, so if youre held that means you wont hear anything until May the earliest?

[tbc83]

Any other held ED people still out there? My GPA is awful, so I've been eagerly anticipating my ding/WL that has not arrived. Not sure what to think about other people going into strange hold limbo land.....

[lionelmessi]

And for those of us that went complete more than 8 weeks ago and still received no update today...BACK TO PURGATORY.

+1. Complete 10/21. 3.78/169 with tons of WE. And no hold, no update on status check, no nothin'.

Rad.

[Smumps]

So if not held today it means acceptance later this week, right?

Right!!!!!

Sorry to all those held. Most of you have already gotten into amazing schools. Remember to keep perspective (I know, it's hard. I have none).

[cactuarX3]

Hold.

I am stunned.

Stunned in a good way, or in a bad?

I'm on hold as well, but that's really all I expected considering I have 0 FT WE

Edit: Cactuar, that is exactly how I feel. I also was held at Harvard and Mich, but they just sent me e-mails. None of this "Decision letter" business.

In a bad way. I'm probably outting myself to any adcomms who follow this forum, but the whole reason I really chose to work 2 years before applying to law school was to get in to Northwestern specifically (and save some money to pay for it as well). This was a major point of my Why Northwestern essay.

I'm in at Michigan with $$ and am more than happy to attend, but the irony of getting what is basically a glorified waitlist decision from the school that pretty much defined my entire pre-law "route" is very very difficult to swallow.

Anyway #firstworldproblems

I'm obviously not the only who got less than great news today. Best of luck to all those held! I'm going to give some serious thought to whether or not I stay on for the long haul.

Sounds like good content for a nice LOCI...

[Mr. Somebody]

And for those of us that went complete more than 8 weeks ago and still received no update today...BACK TO PURGATORY.

+1. Complete 10/21. 3.78/169 with tons of WE. And no hold, no update on status check, no nothin'.

Rad.

+1 complete early november

[cch24]

cch24, still same?

It finally worked! Held...