divine angst

I was perusing the boards this morning and noticed a post by someone who was accepted to Northwestern after me, mentioning receiving his admissions packet in the mail a week after getting his acceptance email.

Oh no! I thought. They really did make a mistake!

So I called. Mind you, if this had happened to me in any other situation except silly law school admissions, I would have called weeks ago. But law school admissions seem so arcane, so special—not to mention they always tell you not to call and ask about things, that they’ll just contact you when they’re ready—that I didn’t call. I waited.

Well, it turns out that a batch of admissions packets were just lost. They weren’t returned, they just disappeared into the ether. (They were also sent via FedEx, which seems sort of strange to me—and, indeed, Northwestern has stopped sending these packets via FedEx.) Of course, she kept asking questions to make sure there wasn’t a simpler explanation—”we sent it to a your address in X city,” (no, that’s my only address), “someone in your complex might have picked it up,” (no, it’s not that kind of complex, packages are delivered to our door)—and that’s fine. We determined in the end that, in fact, my packet had just vanished.

So they’re resending it to me, by US Mail this time, and I should get it next week.

All that frustration for nothing.

I’m flush with success right now, so much so that I think I’m going to try and call UT again!

UPDATE: And I talked to UT. It appears that, because I sent my resume under separate cover, the online status check is essentially worthless. It only works if everything comes in electronically at the same time. I was told that my application is “probably” complete, and I can send another copy of my resume if I want but it “probably” won’t make a difference and “probably” won’t cause the status checker to update, and everything is “probably” OK.

In other words, I can just stop checking the status check (which I’ve pretty much done) and wait for the mail. Much like what I’ve been doing with Chicago!