Anonymous
Post 12/19/2025 21:48     Subject: Notre Dame tonight
ND is a very good school but 2 drawbacks are South Bend and long winters.
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2025 21:40     Subject: Notre Dame tonight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As is anecdotally reflective, word out of South Bend is this round of REA was far more brutal than last year.


Would be curious to know more. Sad rejected kid over here with an older sister at the school who they desperately wanted to be at school with for a bit. I probably shouldn’t try to make sense of it all but they are definitely doubting themselves (where I am saying keep your chin up! Way more competitive applicants than slots).


Notre Dame released stats. 11.5% admit rate on 6% application growth. So the REA admission rate is down 2% from last year and this potentially sets up a ~5% RD admission rate this year.

Worth note is these REA figures also appear to include “QuestBridge, the STARS College Network, the Cristo Rey Network, and many other schools and community-based organizations…”


Also important to note that the number admitted this round is down by 3% (52 less students). There is an effort to equalize the number admitted between REA and RD, so you will see a larger RD admit pool this year. Hopefully that will help more deferrals, of which there were more than in past years.
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2025 20:27     Subject: Notre Dame tonight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As is anecdotally reflective, word out of South Bend is this round of REA was far more brutal than last year.


Would be curious to know more. Sad rejected kid over here with an older sister at the school who they desperately wanted to be at school with for a bit. I probably shouldn’t try to make sense of it all but they are definitely doubting themselves (where I am saying keep your chin up! Way more competitive applicants than slots).


Notre Dame released stats. 11.5% admit rate on 6% application growth. So the REA admission rate is down 2% from last year and this potentially sets up a ~5% RD admission rate this year.

Worth note is these REA figures also appear to include “QuestBridge, the STARS College Network, the Cristo Rey Network, and many other schools and community-based organizations…”
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2025 07:23     Subject: Notre Dame tonight
Know several ND legacy kids now enrolled at Holy Cross. Very happy there and solid fallback for ND.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2025 07:14     Subject: Notre Dame tonight
I wouldn’t be bragging about Fauci. Liar & criminal.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 21:46     Subject: Notre Dame tonight
Clarify ND Law School grad ACB, HC grad Clarence Thomas Yale Law School grad. Not sure about ND laureates but Holy Cross has a Nobel Medicine winner and also Dr Fauci. BC goose eggs.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 21:33     Subject: Notre Dame tonight
Anonymous wrote:Yikes, US News has ranked colleges since the mid 80s. Believe Holy Cross has always been in the 18-35 range of National Liberal Arts schools. Currently, HC is 27 but US News includes the 3 service academies as LAC. Now BC when it was still a Boston Commuter school wasn’t ranked in top 50 of National Universities for many years and has been stuck in the 37-40s range forever behind UIllinois and UGA. Nice try, but HC and ND have graduated Nobel Prize winners and Supreme Court Judges and well BC 0 and 0.




Could you start a new thread? This Isn’t really about ND anymore.

But to clarify about ND:
only has ACB as a graduate. And I think only 2 Nobel laureates.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 21:22     Subject: Notre Dame tonight
Yikes, US News has ranked colleges since the mid 80s. Believe Holy Cross has always been in the 18-35 range of National Liberal Arts schools. Currently, HC is 27 but US News includes the 3 service academies as LAC. Now BC when it was still a Boston Commuter school wasn’t ranked in top 50 of National Universities for many years and has been stuck in the 37-40s range forever behind UIllinois and UGA. Nice try, but HC and ND have graduated Nobel Prize winners and Supreme Court Judges and well BC 0 and 0.


Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 21:12     Subject: Notre Dame tonight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Must be bc boosters HC is Catholic powerhouse and has been forever like ND. Nova will overtake BC shortly. But they do have Doug Flutie.

BC is currently way better than HC. That may well change, but HC has a long way to go. Rankings and admission rates do not lie: Holy Cross is a back up to the back up for high stats kids.


HC currently requires no supplemental essay and is giving out application fee waivers left and right. That doesn’t seem to be the profile of an elite school. I am sure it is a great place but to try and equate it with ND is ludicrous.