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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but mostly because of its alumni network ambit being a throwback in term of culture. The alumni love notre dame and have a national presence with an instant connection with other alumni. It’s similar to the service academies and ivies in that regard. [/quote]

Yes to this, and I say this as someone who doesn't like ND as an institution and find many of their grads smart but off-putting.

The school has an insular culture with a lot of people from similar backgrounds. This makes its alumni network different than at other similar schools because there is a higher degree of real affinity among their alumni due an assumption of shared values, beliefs, personal experiences, families, etc. So may of ND's students and alums went to Catholic high schools, and come from very similar families (usually UMC or above, most often white, mostly living in suburbs of large cities or in midsize cities with large Catholic populations). They even often share the experience of same-sex education, because so many Catholic schools are same-sex. This means that an ND alum who graduated in 2008 after growing up in an Atlanta suburb, is likely to have an unusual amount of things in common with a 2023 grad from Wisconsin. That's not necessarily true at other schools, but it's often true at ND.

The schools ND remind me most of in terms of alumni network are not other colleges. It's boarding school. The ND alumni network operates more similarly to certain boarding schools in terms of how willing alumni are to help one another and the presumption they have that they have meaningful qualities in common with a fellow alum they many never have met before.  It can be hugely beneficial.

But it only works if you are a member of that club or are comfortable pretending to be a member of that club. [/quote]

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