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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too conservative[/quote]

LOL, I know some Catholics who refused to let their kids go there because it was too liberal.[/quote]

Yeah but most normal high school kids don’t want to go to a Catholic college so the pool is just smaller. [/quote]

That's right, most normal kids are not qualified.
You need to be a top student  and exceptional.[/quote]

And you still won’t want to go there unless you are from a Catholic family that has pushed it as the Catholic Harvard your whole life. Most people do not think of it as somewhere to apply because most people are not Catholic. [/quote]

Not many people are hardcore bigots.
Religious affiliation is one of the many many factors like location, program offerings, prestige/ranking, size, public/private, cost, etc. etc.  
Religious affiliation could be a down side for some people just like any of the factors, but it's just one of many.

Notre Dame was on top of my non-Catholic kid's list for Mendoza business program, sense of community(without being fratty) and security, student caring and service, and beautiful campus which felt the right size.  DC wanted more urban setting schools, so most of the schools on the list were urban.  
So location was the biggest downside for Notre Dame, but despite that, DC chose Notre Dame for all the factors combined.  [/quote]

That's fine but your child is an outlier. Outside of Catholic applicants attending Catholic schools, and students from the Midwest looking for an elite school relatively close to home, ND gets major points off both for being a very Catholic institution (perceived as more Catholic both in culture and institutionally than Georgetown, for instance) and location.

Sure, some kids might be drawn to the school for other reasons -- it's a high quality education and some people are less bothered by the weather an isolation. But that's true of any school. I know a student with great stats who had ASU in their top 5 choices because of the dance program. That doesn't mean ASU is magically more selective generally, it means it was a fit for one specific student.[/quote]

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