<p>Any other accepted student who has received the big envelope with their NETID having problems creating their email account? Making sure it's just not me...</p>
<p>Did you you wait 24 hours? I think that you have to wait for a certain period of time after registering your netID</p>
<p>That would be the reason then! :> It would be nice if it gave a friendly message to that affect vs. an ugly “Internal Server Error” message.</p>
<p>Man I’m jealous…I’m still waiting on my envelope!</p>
<p>Do you live in Chicago or Evanston? Pretty crazy that you got your package so quickly. I’m in southeastern Wisconsin and haven’t gotten mine yet.</p>
<p>Live in Northern Illinois.</p>
<p>Stupid snail mail. We probably live the same distance away from NU. I’m just really antsy to hear back about financial aid.</p>
<p>^^What hmbeast said.</p>
<p>@hmbeast: The envelope didn’t include FA info; that is to come under separate cover.</p>
<p>I got my big folder thing today, it has a letter about need-based aid, but does anybody know anything about merit scholarships?</p>
<p>I got mine today and was able to activate my NetID and create my email account immediately.</p>
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Northwestern, like the Ivies, does not offer merit based scholarships. The only merit scholarship you could use is one from an outside source (i.e. Coca-Cola, Byrd, etc).</p>
<p>^I am doing a dual degree with engineering and music. The bienen school of music does actually offer a select number of merit based scholarships, and when I spoke to the teacher in November she mentioned putting in a good word for me for those scholarships. I think I just assumed that all the NU schools awarded merit scholarships because the Bienen school does. Sorry for the confusion!</p>
<p>I also got my letter today and I live in Memphis. It seems that the international students got their aid package in their letter, but I haven’t seen anyone from the states get theirs. Financial aid should be online on CAESAR starting March 31st.</p>
<p>They do offer a small amount for Nat’l Merit Scholarship. I believe it is $2,500 annually.</p>
<p>Correction: $2,000 annually.</p>
<p>Got my letter, which my mom insisted on putting on our fridge like it was a good drawing. Haha. Something about my new @u.northwestern.edu email address makes me feel shiny.</p>
<p>I’m having the same problem creating my e-mail address!!! I activated my Net ID okay, but I keep getting an “Error: 1402” every time I try and create the email. If anyone figures out how to fix this, please post!</p>
<p>Did you make sure your password for your Net ID account was 8 characters and included at least one special character? My son was having a problem because he tried to make the password too long.</p>
<p>^ I had the same problem, although it did tell me that was my problem. Other than that, I managed to make my netID quite smoothly. I hope you succeed soon!</p>