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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My friend is a pretty religious Catholic, his son is a junior at a Jesuit high school.[/b] His dream school is Boston College. They went to look at Notre Dame, and the son said "I'm Catholic, but these people are really Catholic."

Kids lighting candles and praying in the grotto, crucifixes in every classroom, etc. He thought Catholicism permeated the culture completely.[/quote]

I find it surprising that a kid from a pretty religious family who goes to a Jesuit high school would find ND too Catholic.  Something's  off about this example ---perhaps the kid just preferred the East Coast?

That said, I don't think any student should go to ND for the reputation, ranking, whatever unless they're completely in love with it.    ND is not for everybody, but most of the kids who go there really want to go THERE.   That's what makes it such a special place with perhaps one of the nicest students anywhere.

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This is a good point. All of the kids I know who went to Notre Dame (and I know lots, given my roots in an upper-middle class, lots of Irish Catholics suburb of Chicago) have known they wanted ND since at least freshman year of high school, and many since they even understood what the word college meant :)[/quote]

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