Wait List Process

The waitlist process is an uncertain one and we do not know if we will have the opportunity to admit students off the waitlist. We will carefully monitor the class from now until opening day, and if we see the need to admit applicants from the waitlist, we will do so. Many of you have asked if there is anything you can do to improve your chances of gaining admission from the waitlist. You are welcome to submit letters or e-mails expressing your continued interest in NUSL. If you are considering submitting any updated or other additional information, we ask that you use your judgment in deciding if this new information might be helpful to the committee.

Here are a few things to keep in mind regarding the waitlist process:

• We may not be able to admit students from the waitlist this year. Although we make every effort to admit students from the waitlist, there are years when this is not possible.

• The deposit deadline for our admitted students was May 1.

• The earliest we may begin admitting students from the waitlist is late May or early June.

• If we can offer you admission, you will receive a call from an admissions staff member. You will then have 24 hours to respond to the offer of admission.

• We will not be able to offer you institutional scholarship grant money if you are admitted from the waitlist. Typically, students admitted from the waitlist rely on loans.

• We do not allow applicants admitted from the waitlist to defer entrance to the law school.

• Only students on the "active" waitlist will be considered if we activate the waitlist review process. To be on the "active" waitlist, you must complete and return the waitlist reply form as soon as possible.

• We do not rank our waitlist. Should we activate the waitlist, we will give your file every consideration.

• We do not interview or meet with waitlisted candidates.

• If we are unable to offer you admission in June, you will receive a letter asking if you wish to remain on the waitlist, since there is a possibility that we will be able to admit some students from the waitlist during July or August.

• You may stay on the waitlist up to the start of the New Student Orientation at the end of August.

• We encourage you to make plans to attend another law school or make alternate plans in the event that we do not activate our waitlist.