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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

The craziest, cringiest, most embarrassing for her Facebook post I have seen in my life was posted by a mom I know of the "moment" her son got into ND this year. I can't even describe it, but it was all about her--fist-pumping, screaming, while the boy sits in the background looking like he's on another planet. I mean, I know the kid probably worked very hard for that acceptance, but for one, it seemed to be much more her moment than his, and moreover, her excitement just didn't fit with the acceptance. It wasn't Princeton.[/quote]

Catholic school valedictorians often don't apply to Ivies. ND is their no. 1.[/quote]

And? This is a meaningless metric in terms of the school’s quality. “Catholic school grads prefer Catholic university with massive Catholic student population.” All this indicates is that many Catholic school grads seek out familiar, comfortable college environments where they will be members of the dominant cultural group. Cool?[/quote]

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