Why is Notre Dame bot as selective as it's peers?

[Anonymous]

Dame has an 18% acceptance rate this year with a 22 % RD rate. That significantly higher than all the other schools in the top 25.

[Anonymous]

They accept everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dame has an 18% acceptance rate this year with a 22 % RD rate. That significantly higher than all the other schools in the top 25.

Notre Dame has no ED. ED lowers acceptance rates significantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dame has an 18% acceptance rate this year with a 22 % RD rate. That significantly higher than all the other schools in the top 25.

Notre Dame has no ED. ED lowers acceptance rates significantly.

It's not a selective school, it has a self-selective student body. That's the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dame has an 18% acceptance rate this year with a 22 % RD rate. That significantly higher than all the other schools in the top 25.

Notre Dame has no ED. ED lowers acceptance rates significantly.

It's not a selective school, it has a self-selective student body. That's the difference.

Stated differently, it’s yield (for a non-ED school) is really high.

[Anonymous]

ND is a great school but it isn’t that selective. There is certain profile of kid interested in the school who are not typically the top students. Yet they are students interested in working hard and intellectually curious. Typically students leaders but not the crazy smart. But again, not to knock the school. I think the education is as good as any institution.

[Anonymous]

Too conservative

[Anonymous]

Conservative evangelicals are ruining the schools. Georgetown seems to have found the sweet spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dame has an 18% acceptance rate this year with a 22 % RD rate. That significantly higher than all the other schools in the top 25.

Notre Dame has no ED. ED lowers acceptance rates significantly.

No NDs yield is higher than most RD schools. Including ivys. It's the fact that it's not that popular and doesn't get a ton of applicants. Wake Forest might be more selective at this point.

[Anonymous]

Notre Dame seems more Catholic oriented than other Catholic colleges. Every person I’ve known to attend was Catholic, very smart, and well rounded. I think applicants are more more self selecting.

[Anonymous]

Standardized test scores are sky high. What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dame has an 18% acceptance rate this year with a 22 % RD rate. That significantly higher than all the other schools in the top 25.

Acceptance rate seems like a foolish thing to judge a school by. It’s just a measure of how many kids without a chance to get in that you’ve convinced to apply. It’s cruel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Standardized test scores are sky high. What are you talking about?

They're high at all top 25s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dame has an 18% acceptance rate this year with a 22 % RD rate. That significantly higher than all the other schools in the top 25.

Acceptance rate seems like a foolish thing to judge a school by. It’s just a measure of how many kids without a chance to get in that you’ve convinced to apply. It’s cruel.

As well as ED emphasis and yield management. Any school can contrive a low acceptance rate

Soliciting garbage international applications is another trick which doesn’t get enough attention. Schools like Amherst get like 40 pct of apps internationally with a tiny fraction admitted

[Anonymous]

It's location is horrid OP.