@Marzzz Actually, JHU contacted me and a classmate for our fin aid documents and still rejected both of us! But that was way back in January maybe that’s why there wasn’t a correlation.
@IlluminatiIsReal Oh thats odd! Just got to wait and see then i guess
@Marzzz I wouldn’t worry about it! UChicago never emailed me about missing financial aid documents, and I still got in. Of course, it’ll take longer to get your financial aid award back, but it doesn’t look like it reflects on your decision.
Can we expect decisions tomorrow?
@Heisenberg1700 I highly doubt it. Odds are it will be Friday because they tend to release right before their spring break.
Is there anywhere for me to check what they have and what they don’t? Do they use IDOC? Im not sure whether or not they have all my documents and they said the deadline for financial aid documents was March 1
It seems like a trick, for top schools, to purposely not turn something in, just to get a heads up about an acceptance- LOL
It might not be a matter of missing documents, as it is a request of additional docs. Two schools sent me emails about missing FA docs. After contacting each school, they wanted a business form that was not required by FAFSA or CSS. None of my other schools requested that information
@loqician Oh okay. Still not getting my hopes up though 
The college board administers IDOC. If you got something from the college board, it’s likely because there are missing items submitted to IDOC for this college.
This has nothing to do with admissions…at all.
@univbound101 I hope you’re right! I had a missing doc I didn’t realize and only one college directly emailed me recently about it - an Ivy.
@IlluminatiIsReal January is really early, those were likely automatic emails. We’re saying emails in March, couple weeks prior to decisions. As in, maybe financial aid dept. was told we’re admitted and is working on our package.
@jprtaco Not a trick because admissions can see you don’t have everything submitted. One, you’re missing a deadline. And two, why would they risk their yield if you don’t seem like a genuine applicant and are extremely likely to turn them down without a financial aid award. I’m left wondering if my one missing doc screwed me. I turned it in like 4 weeks after deadline.
Log into your CSS accounts. After you log in, scroll down to where it says “Next Steps” and click on “Submit Documents to IDOC”, then click on the blue “Here” button which will take you to the dashboard which will tell you if you are missing any documents that a certain school requires.
There doesn’t appear to be any way to access this information through the NU applicant portal. Even if there was, you would still need to upload any missing documents through CSS since that’s what NU uses.
If we aren’t applying for financial aid did we still need to send those documents?
For some schools, you only need to send FA documents if you want to be considered for certain scholarships (NYU is one that requires it, I believe.). If you do not qualify for FA, you do not need to send any documents. For our son, 3 years ago, we filled out the FAFSA because we didn’t know any better and thought everyone had to do it (we do not qualify for FA). It was a big waste of our time. We did not do it this year for our daughter.
To all those assuming that a notification of missing FA documents from the school is an indication of your acceptance, many schools have explicitly stated that their FA and Admissions committees function independently of one another (including Northwestern). It seems that @univbound101 's case may have been a coincidence. In my own experience, I had recently been accepted to Cornell (via likely letter) yet had not received any form of notification about FA while I know other individuals who have heard from FA but have yet to hear back on their decision. As much as all of us would love to hear our NU decisions (myself included), I think we are all just gonna have to wait and see for what the real decision email will bring us 
These considences definitely depend on each school; for example-- the email from Pomona about financial aid came from the admissions office, but for Tulane, I was missing documents and wasn’t informed until after I was accepted. I tried to make it clear in my earlier post that emails about missing documents-- specfically within a week or two of decisions-- MAY or MAY NOT be indicative of your decision. It wouldn’t make sense for Harvard to inform you that you’re missing a document on March 21st only yo reject you a week later. Back to the original post that brought up this dicussion, @PackersLA if you received an email from CollegeBoard it is defintiely unrelated to the admissions decision.
I saw on a list of university decision dates that NWU releases on 3/21.
Can you share the link @Noreplays2018 ? Thanks
I didn’t apply for financial aid at any uni. Was I supposed to send any form?
Any chance that decisions will be out today?