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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Notre Dame. People here are insane about that school and its... fine. I have met many ND grads at work and socially and they run the gamut -- basically the same intellectually and socially as any smallish liberal arts college. They are indistinct from, say, JMU grads or people from state universities. Not a bad school, not a great school. Good alumni network though.

But the way people from around here who either went to ND or whose kids go, you'd think it was an Ivy or impossible to get into. It's especially weird when you're talking about grads of private Catholic high schools, since ND recruits aggressively from such schools and it's an obvious feed. Again, nothing against ND but it's not Yale or Harvard, and people absolutely talk about it like it is. It's embarrassing.[/quote]

+10,000[/quote]

Oh yeah, this. I was confused by this thread when I saw the title but now it makes sense because the view of ND in the DMV is inexplicable compared to how it is viewed elsewhere.

I’m from the West coast and went to a Catholic HS and ND was considered a safety among the smart kids. It’s a good school, and you needed good grades and test scores to get in. But most people would rather have attended one of the better UC schools than ND. Or, if they wanted to go far away, a similar school in a bigger city (Georgetown or GW were both popular for this reason). People talked openly about it being an easier admit than other liberal arts schools, even Catholic ones, because of the Catholic connection (I can’t remember the exact number but ND has a ridiculously large Catholic student population).

But when I moved to DC for work, I was initially confused about the hype around ND. Now I’ve adjusted, but people should be aware that it’s not thought of this way in other parts of the country (not even Boston!), even among Catholics. I don’t know if there is just an unusual number of ND grads here or what, but it’s definitely overrated in DC compared to elsewhere.[/quote]

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