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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My experience goes back 20 years to when I was in college but others have agreed with my description.  Catholic families send their children to both ND and CUA.  The preppy conservative oldest child goes to ND.  The youngest child in the family that is more adventurous and more left leaning goes to CUA.  [/quote]

My sense has always been the opposite.  CUA is *way* more conservative and religious than ND.  And academically they really aren't in the same discussion.  Replace BC with CUA in your sentence and you might have a point.[/quote]
I grew up in Chicago and went to what is possibly Notre Dame's biggest feeder high school (any Fenwick Friars on DCUM?) -- [b]the kids who came from ND families but couldn't get in or didn't want to go (for whatever reason) tended to go to BC, Marquette, Providence, U of Dayton, Villanova, SLU, the Loyolas...not so much CUA. [/b]

maybe it is different for DC area Catholics since CUA is right there, but CUA didn't really seem to be on the radar screen for most of my high school. The aforementioned colleges though...definitely. [/quote]

I just had to chime in.  I was raised Catholic, am from the midwest and I went to Dayton.  I had many friends who had siblings or best friends at Notre Dame.  My friends all used to joke that they weren't smart enough to go to ND so they ended up at UD.  When I was in high school, I filled out the application but never submitted it because I was convinced I wouldn't get in.  This was in the 1980's so even then, ND had the reputation in the midwest of being super selective for the really smart kids who were also super involved in social activities in high school (the valedictorian who was also the class president and the captain of the basketball team.)[/quote]

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