Bid Results

After each bidding round, the Registrar’s Office will process all bids to a result. During this processing time, students will not be able to see their bids in CAESAR, but the bids have not been lost.

The Registrar’s Office will notify the community when processing is complete, and students will then be able to view their results in CAESAR.  The Registrar’s Office will also post a summary to this webpage of the bidding results that includes the points cost for each class, the number of remaining open seats, and waitlist sizes.

Spring 2024 Bid Results (pdf)


To view your bid results after the Registrar's Office announces they are available:
  1. Log in to CAESAR at www.northwestern.edu/caesar
  2. Choose the Law Bidding and Class Schedule tile
  3. Select Bidding Results
    • You do not need to confirm bid results.  If you are happy with your results, there is nothing you need to do.
    • If you click cancel and then click confirm, your bid will be irrevocably cancelled.  We cannot get it back for you.  Do not click cancel unless you intend to cancel a bid.

If a student has a successful bid, it will appear with a Status of "A" (accepted) and a Reason of GOOD. Students will see the number of points bid on the class and the actual cost as explained above. The points to cover the actual cost will be deducted from the bid point account. GOOD bids will result in enrollment in the class at the conclusion of bidding.

A bid may also be denied (Status of "D"), the Reason for which will also appear in the bidding results.  Information about how to understand your bid results is available on the How to Read Results webpage.