Anonymous wrote:Almost every male family member of mine has attended ND. I don’t know a single one or their friends who attended mass except for a few required services (I believe there’s one the first week and one the week of graduation). We’ve been there many Sunday mornings and I don’t recall seeing a large group going to mass. OP are you sure your data is current? I know when my father attended in the 60s, mass was required.

My DC just graduated from ND, and he rarely went to mass except for during the week, which does not count for Sunday mass. I think for him, it was more of a social experience where he would go with friends, or go to his GF's dorm to watch her play the piano for mass. But by and large, you are going to find more students who do attend weekly (Sunday) mass at ND vs. other schools. What is great is every single residence hall has a chapel and some dorms have sever masses a week. Very few attend mass at the Basilica.

To give you an idea of the breadth of opportunities to attend mass, here is a schedule of masses by residence hall.
https://campusministry.nd.edu/pray/mass-times/residence-hall-mass-schedule/

Anonymous wrote:Almost every male family member of mine has attended ND. I don’t know a single one or their friends who attended mass except for a few required services (I believe there’s one the first week and one the week of graduation). We’ve been there many Sunday mornings and I don’t recall seeing a large group going to mass. OP are you sure your data is current? I know when my father attended in the 60s, mass was required.

ND grad here. Your family was in the minority. Most dorms offer Mass right in them, and many students attend.

Anonymous wrote:Are there any T50 colleges besides Notre Dame that have single sex dorms? I really like this and that the majority of the students are Catholic and many attend Mass. Are there any other top schools that are similar?

Please note, we not looking for identity at the expense of academics.

No, there are no T50 national universities besides Notre Dame and no T50 national liberal arts colleges that ONLY have single-sex dorms. However, many schools offer single-sex floors within coed residence halls.

If you want single-sex dorms and majority Catholic students, you might want to look at one of the small, intensely Catholic liberal arts colleges. Some of them offer strong academics in the humanities (Western Civ., classical languages, philosophy, theology, literature, etc.) but are not necessarily particularly strong in modern languages and STEM. I have heard U of Dallas and Thomas Aquinas are amongst the more academic schools in this category. Others are listed in the Newman Guide: https://cardinalnewmansociety.org/college/

While many people find what they are looking for at Newman Guide schools, it should be noted that they are not without their own problems, and some students have said they feel sexual segregation merely pushes encounters off-campus, where women students are more likely to be abused: https://royalexaminer.com/christendom-college-promises-change-wake-sexual-assault-allegations/

Almost every male family member of mine has attended ND. I don’t know a single one or their friends who attended mass except for a few required services (I believe there’s one the first week and one the week of graduation). We’ve been there many Sunday mornings and I don’t recall seeing a large group going to mass. OP are you sure your data is current? I know when my father attended in the 60s, mass was required.

Almost every school would have club for Catholic students or student association.

Anonymous wrote:OP, just come up with a list of Top 50 schools that you think are most like Notre Dame in other ways, then research their dorm situation.

You’re unlikely to find any other school where the “majority” go to Mass every week because other than Notre Dame Georgetown and BC are the only Catholic schools in the top 50 and that ain’t happening in either one of those schools. Probably not happening at Villanova either.

Georgetown is not going to meet the OPs needs.

I believe Georgetown is no longer majority Catholic. If you go on a student tour, the tour guides are very proud to tell you that Georgetown does not follow "any of that Catholic stuff" any longer.

Georgetown is a secular university that retains a handful of elements from their Catholic history. Georgetown is no longer a Catholic university. Even on their website, a mention of their Catholic heritage is buried on the 2nd page.

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Anonymous wrote:Many colleges have gender specific housing as a choice. None that I know of segregate all students into gender specific dorms the way ND does. Some may do co-ed by floor. Is your DC also good with the curfews that are imposed at ND? Something like by 11 pm all friends of the opposite gender must exit the dorms (seem very draconian to me)

I went to VT in the 90s.
Most of the dorms were gender specific.
Is it not the way now?

I think the Virginia publics dorms are now all mixed gender floors, or "gender inclusive" rooms which means boys and girls are placed into the same dorm room.

Don’t the males & females at U of Richmond live in different areas?