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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the Jesuit undergrad / Notre Dame grad school poster.  When I was an undergrad I’d say 4 out of 5 of my better friends went to Sunday Mass (or Saturday evening Mass in the fine Catholic tradition of “getting it over with” ha ha).  Sure they were usually hung over, but they went.  I never did.

No different at Notre Dame, really.  Part of the reason for high attendance is that the school holds Masses everywhere so it’s very easy to go.

[b]This idea that the ND student body wears hair shirts and flagellates itself all day [/b]is so silly.  Yes, it’s a Catholic school.  Yes, the majority of its students are Catholic.  Yes, it has a more moderate student body overall than UC-Berkeley.  But it is as mainstream a school as they come.  So long as you are minimally tolerant of religion - as opposed to anti-religion - you’re fine.

My own kids went to UVA.  So far as I can tell, basically UVA is Notre Dame without required religion classes. [/quote]
[b]You’re the only one with this idea[/b]. [/quote]

Actually, my siblings and I and our kids would agree. Some of us went to UVa and some to ND (and some to other schools). Lots of similarities. 
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[b]"This idea that the ND student body wears hair shirts and flagellates itself all day"[/b][/quote]

You are really dense. My point was only that the school is not nearly as religious as so many people make it out to be.[/quote]
No one made the argument you’re pretending. So you’re refuting nothing. Good on you.  [/quote]

What are you talking about?  The knock on Notre Dame is always that it’s super Catholic,
that you have to be a practicing Catholic to fit in, and that Jesuit colleges are sooo different.

That argument has very much been made on this very thread, and so yes, I am refuting it.[/quote]
You can’t refute the opinion that ND is more traditional Catholic than Georgetown/BC or that lots of kids will apply to BC but not ND. [/quote]

ND is definitely a little more Catholic than Georgetown or BC. We visited with DC. Ultimately didn't apply because he got into his into ED school.

But anyone considering an application needs to visit. It's a Catholic school. And they're not hiding it. You vibe with it or you don't. Each applicant needs to figure out whether they feel at home there.

Yet it's not Catholic in a doctrinaire or political sense. It's Catholic in the Be A Good Person sense. Among the US colleges we visited, the Notre Dame kids were the kindest. Genuinely good kids. Super nicest.

It's not very diverse though. I'd think being an asian applicant would be a plus. But, provided you have the grades and test scores, I would definitely stress the Be A Good Person part of the app.

And I would visit. it's a very unique school [/quote]

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