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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids are double legacies.  Two applied, one got in and didn't go after concluding it didn't make sense economically given other options.  Would have liked it there, but no regrets.

South Bend is a dump but ND is on the outskirts of town and most students stick to or very close to a beautiful campus so it doesn't seem to matter.  Dorm assignments take the place of greek life.  The large majority of students were high school athletes and leaders.  The large majority were raised Catholic and many attended Catholic schools, but they're not all super religious by a long shot.  It's not accurate to say the school is conservative -- Obama, Clinton and Biden all won mock elections handily -- but there are more conservatives on campus than most top 25 schools.  Many but not all students come from wealthy and UMC white families, but the school has an Ivy League sized endowment (nearly 10 times larger than Georgetown's) and is generous with financial aid.  Students work hard and play hard.  Football is king.    [/quote]

I'm an alum, and I would say this is the best description of ND I've ever seen on DCUM.  It's definitely accurate.  I'd also add that it has a focus on undergrad teaching that you often don't see in the top 25 schools, which is a huge benefit.  Plenty of juniors and seniors doing serious research with professors, and the campus is small enough that you can get involved in multiple things.  The students who end up at ND were the ones who were enthusiastic in high school - in addition to being great students, [b]they went to the school play and cheered on the sports teams and ran for student council and won the "citizenship award".  ND is not the place for the brilliant kid who say in the back of the pep rally sneering and making fun of it.[/b]

Also, you should basically ignore anything you read about ND on DCUM.  Most posters simply can't grasp students being happy living in the midwest, and can't grasp that a Catholic school can also be a excellent academically.

I’m also an alum and agree with both of these descriptions. Domers are enthusiastic citizen-joiners. If you’re not the type, it’s difficult to be on campus surrounded by it all. The bolder is the reason my legacy DC didn’t even want to apply. Cynicism was going to get him nowhere on that campus and he didn’t want to pretend it was worth suppressing his real personality.

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