There are lots of legacies that don't get admitted. Could be the family are big donors. |
Usually 2/3 of legacies that apply are rejected- not enough spots for everyone. Legacies usually 20% of the class. |
Right. They are just so nice that you don’t mind that they’re taking away your basic human rights. |
50% of Notre Dame is test optional. Washu is also 50% and Cornell is 70 % test optional. Emory is only 30% and Georgetown is 10%. |
Notre Dame was always very high...even before test optional. From historical Common Data Set: 2020-21: 1400-1550 2919-20: 1400-1550 2018-19: 1400-1550 |
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10
Just around before TO, when everyone submitted Test Scores, 2018 Wash U > Notre Dame > Cornell > Georgetwon > Emory |
The last year of test optional was 2020 why use 2016? |
I mean the last year before test optional because the norm |
Lady year of test required
Emory 1400-1510 Georgetown 1380-1530 Notre Dame 1400-1550 Cornell 1410-1530 WashU 1480-1560 So Cornell and Emory rose 30 points since test Optional. WashU and ND went up 10, and Georgetown stayed the same. |
?? Mine looked at Georgetown and Notre Dame, far preferred Notre Dame and is thriving there. |
Not quite. This cannot be determined from CDS. From 21-22 CDS (most recent year available) 48% of students enrolling in fall 21 submitted SAT, and 52% submitted ACT. Because there might be some students who submitted both, it is unclear how many submitted neither. ACT has long been more popular in the Midwest than SAT. ND ACT 25-75 = 32-35 Emory 37% SAT, 27% ACT, 32-34 Georgeton SAT 64%, ACT 38% 32-35 WUSTL SAT 25%, ACT 41% 33-35 Cornell SAT 43%, ACT 17% 33-34 Harvard SAT 54%, ACT 31% 33-36 As PPP said, these are all very high and there is extensive overlap. By test scores, these are very similar populations of students. |
It is kind of out there in Indiana, but it is a great, compact campus, easily walkable from one end to the other, and less than two hours from Chicago. My son went there and it was perfect. Now in medical school. Was rejected to Ivies, ND accepted as early action, his profile was as top-25 type school. |
I'll give you Northwesten, but Cornell? Nah. |
It's just an easily available source with ranking. It's from 2018 with update. Close enough. |
I think admissions percentage is a stupid thing to judge a school by.
ND is - by its own account and by clearly shown on this thread - not a school for everyone. It is was it is. A great smallish sized Catholic school in the middle of nowhere, with fantastic academics and a focus on undergraduate education that is missing at a lot of T25 schools. For some kids, including my daughter, that's the perfect fit. For some kids, including plenty of her awesome friends, it would have been a disastrous fit. Because it makes no attempt to hide what it is, or to recruit kids who wouldn't thrive there to apply, the applicant pool is largely self selecting. It also has a really high yield rate for those same reason - those kids who apply truly want to attend. It's seldom someone's fall-back option. As for the general anti-Catholic bigotry and ignorance - I've come to accept that from DCUM. As for the anti-Indiana rhetoric... yeah... that's fair. But the ND kids have as much to do with Indiana politics as the Georgetown kids have to do with the latest DCPS drama. It's just not part of their lives. |