Alternatives to Notre Dame

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure Notre Dame is approx 25-33% legacy kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter who was also really into Notre Dame applied to:
Villanova
Miami of OH
Boston College
Wash U
Vanderbilt
Marquette
UVA
Loyola Chicago

She applied early action to ND and was accepted. Similar stats to your daughter. (The only school on this list she wasn’t accepted at was WUSTL). Is your daughter a legacy? ND loooves legacies, I think even more so than schools like Harvard and Yale.

Source for this? I can't tell you how many children of ND alums I know who have been rejected by ND. Being a legacy there isn't what it used to be with the school growing so much.

This is probably true. I know of at least 2 who were rejected. Maybe the parents were not donors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://admissions.nd.edu/connect/news/lunch-with-don-bishop/

This article does a great job explaining it. The university is committed to having about 25% of their class be legacies and the legacy admit rate is approximately double that of the non-legacy.

Source.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter who was also really into Notre Dame applied to:
Villanova
Miami of OH
Boston College
Wash U
Vanderbilt
Marquette
UVA
Loyola Chicago

She applied early action to ND and was accepted. Similar stats to your daughter. (The only school on this list she wasn’t accepted at was WUSTL). Is your daughter a legacy? ND loooves legacies, I think even more so than schools like Harvard and Yale.

Source for this? I can't tell you how many children of ND alums I know who have been rejected by ND. Being a legacy there isn't what it used to be with the school growing so much.

Obviously no school can accept every legacy applicant. There are too many.

[Anonymous]

I recall looking at Notre Dame for our daughter and after you account for legacies, athletes, URMS and filthy rich, it's basically impossible to get in.

[Anonymous]

Marquette. DS goes there and had similar stats to your daughter. Both schools seem to attract a similar type of student - and DS says the academic opportunities and community aspect are second to none.

[Anonymous]

Most of the similar options have already been listed, but maybe add Santa Clara or U of Portland to the list if she's willing to consider West Coast. Obviously totally different architecture, but similar feels in some respects.

For non-Catholic, maybe Wake Forest or Vanderbilt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter who was also really into Notre Dame applied to:
Villanova
Miami of OH
Boston College
Wash U
Vanderbilt
Marquette
UVA
Loyola Chicago

She applied early action to ND and was accepted. Similar stats to your daughter. (The only school on this list she wasn’t accepted at was WUSTL). Is your daughter a legacy? ND loooves legacies, I think even more so than schools like Harvard and Yale.

Source for this? I can't tell you how many children of ND alums I know who have been rejected by ND. Being a legacy there isn't what it used to be with the school growing so much.

This is probably true. I know of at least 2 who were rejected. Maybe the parents were not donors?

Being a consistent, modest donor over the years doesn't help much if at all . . . so many of the applicants are legacies and we know many (and hear rumors/second hand of many more) whose kids even with good stats can't get in. If you're an alum and kid has high stats, it's a + vs. other high stats kids. I think you'd have to be a big time donor for it to make a big difference.

[Anonymous]

Christendom College. Actually Catholic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Christendom College. Actually Catholic.

You could throw in University of Dallas/Benedictine (KS)/Steubenville (OH) - there are at least a dozen which are way more Catholic than ND.

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