<p>It sounds like you all saw the notification from Financial Aid before admissions notified you that your decisions were available online. I cannot imagine what that felt like, and your anger is completely understandable. Unfortunately, Northwestern is not at at fault – legally or otherwise – if that was the case.</p>
<p>Even still, I’m sure if enough of you write then someone in some office will be out of a job. If that consoles you, then by all means.</p>
<p>just for sake of numbers, i was accepted then wait-listed.</p>
<p>That sucks. But life’s never fair. D;</p>
<p>Meh. I don’t really care I was rejected. After days of expecting it, it doesn’t matter to me.</p>
<p>Now my UF rejection is another story. That one emotionally damaged me for a week. LOL.</p>
<p>well, i don’t think you can sue them… all admissions offers are always tentative and provisional… they can always rescind.</p>
<p>but wow this stuff actually happens?</p>
<p>I believe it happened last year - can’t remember the details but a school actually mailed (or maybe emailed) several hundred mistaken acceptances. Crushing. Sorry this happened to you guys. This is all stressful enough as it is. Good luck with the rest of your applications.</p>
<p>has anyone NOT heard from northwestern yet? i keep hearing the mistake was in the financial aid office…maybe since i didnt apply for aid thast why i havent heard yet? anyone have any idea…?</p>
<p>I think they’re used to having glitches on their applicant status site. I mean, people found out their acceptances last year when the admissions office was testing stuff out, so there was a small window of time when you could find out your decision way before everyone else. However, these decisions were actually legit., unlike the FA ones some people saw.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted but I didn’t check until midnight. To all those who got accepted and rejected, my heart goes out to you. I’d be so angry if that happened.</p>
<p>i can imagine how upsetting that must have been, really sorry to everyone who had to experience this</p>
<p>swimcatsmom, that school was north carolina. They sent out a bunch of emails telling applicants they were admitted when they werent.</p>
<p>There is no way that the financial aid office creates a package for every student who applies to the school - it would be practically impossible to produce thousands upon thousands of financial aid packages -not to mention a total waste of time - Thus the reason why the FAFSA forms aren’t due until a month and a half after the application deadline. It has to be that the admissions office accepts the student first then turns that file over to the financial aid office. My son was waitlisted at a college last year and when he actually got accepted a few weeks later, then the financial aid office requested additional information so that they could then create his financial aid package.</p>
<p>Has anyone called admissions/financial services and inquired about this?</p>
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hahahaha, I was just about to bring that up!
Well I was flat-out rejected, but at least I won’t be going to a school that can’t use e-mail in the year 2008.</p>
<p>I truly sympathize to all of you who received the mistaken e-mails. I can’t imagine what kind of a painful emotional rollercoaster (or rather, cliff-dive?) that must’ve been. This is quite a shame on NU.</p>
<p>Wait, people received EMAILS saying they got in? Or did they just log in to the financial section of their status page?</p>