<p>Here are the 2009 admissions statistics just released:</p>
<pre><code> Change from 2008
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<p>Applicants 14,352 +415</p>
<p>Admits 3,842 +320</p>
<p>Admit rate 26.77% +1.5</p>
<p>SAT middle 50% 1390-1500 1370-1490</p>
<p>SAT average 1434 +7</p>
<p>ACT middle 50% 32-34 same</p>
<p>ACT average 32.6 +.2</p>
<p>Note: Total applications increased, even though the number of Early Action applications decreased over the prior year. Possibly a result of the first year for the common application at ND.</p>
<p>not that big jump in applications, but they accepted 320 more which is probably a reaction to problems with the economy. not as many people will attend, or so they think, because of the financial commitment.</p>
<p>i was told by an admissions officer that they had expected more than 17000 applications so this is strange becasue it should have gone up a lot more wiht the use of the common app.</p>
<p>ya the number of total applications seem a little low. usually when a school transfers the to the common app, you see a spike in application numbers</p>
<p>I would imagine the economy and the lack of merit based financial aid (vs. Vanderbilt, Rice, WashU) probably held down the number of common app students who might otherwise have tried in a more normal year.</p>
<p>It could have even been the cost to apply. The reason the common app increases applications is you have more students who are applying to ND on a whim since it is convenient (if they really wanted to go that badly, they would have done the old app last year). If it is on a whim, you may not want to pay the $50, or whatever it is now.</p>
<p>the waitlist data will be released probably in May/June when they figure out how many actually accepted their spot on waitlist and how many are accepted from it after they find out how many students enroll that were accepted</p>
<p>Irish- I don't understand your point. There was an application fee last year, correct? </p>
<p>I'm surprised that the applications didn't increase more, as it seems like it did at many elite schools. Also, Common Ap would have increased the total dramatically. I wonder what a geographical slice would look like. Seems like several southern schools (UVA, Vandy, Emory, Wake) all had large jumps in applications, perhaps at the expense of ND.</p>
<p>ya....kaydog, i realized this at my school, personally. i am from the northeast, but a lot of the top of my class did not apply to ND but instead the schools you listed and duke and unc, for example.</p>
<p>My school and Notre Dame were an interesting case this year. I attend a somewhat competitive private school in California and usually anywhere from 1-3 in a given class get into Notre Dame from 5-10 applications. This year at least 9 have gotten in without a significant increase of apps in the class.</p>
<p>My son's school had the opposite situation. In previous years, the majority of ND applicants were accepted. This year, it was less than 20%, with no increase in applicants.</p>
<p>my school stayed the same...last year we got 3 in early admission, but none in RD. this year, 1 in early (he was the only one who applied early) and 2 out of 5 in RD</p>
<p>Claremarie- what part of the country are you from?</p>
<p>I'm from a large public school in Florida. I was surprised so few of the top students t my school apply out of state. Here we get free tuition (Bright Futures) with a 1270 SAT and 3.5, so many people think that is an amazing deal. THe ones that did applied mostly to Vandy (aid policy was announced to be a big deal), Wake (no SAT), Emory, GaTech, UNC-CH, etc. And tons of great students stay here to go to UF, FSU, etc with no applications out of state.</p>
<p>"The faltering economy was one of the reasons we admitted more students in Early Action than has been typical," he said. "We knew they were competitive and we felt it better to offer admission in December in order to give these students more time to consider Notre Dame as a college option."</p>
<p>But it certainly doesn't do any good for students waiting for financial aid packages. We only got ND's financial aid package last Friday! The other EA school (G'town) was only one day earlier. The "more time" was useless in our case!</p>