<p>The one thing I said I didn't want was to be waitlisted...... I LOVE Notre Dame but I want to keep my dignity and just decide on my school. This is insane I don't know what to do. Is it even worth the effort? I have won quite a few awards since I sent my app in... but honestly is it worth all of that effort? AAHHHHHHHHHH I HATE THIS!</p>
<p>ND is worth it. Send your updates in if you truly want to attend ND. Best wishes to you.</p>
<p>The letter says that they expect about 600 people to remain on the waitlist.... and that in recent years they've taken 0-200. I honestly do not know what to do.... what if they fill up all the spots from acceptees... :( it will be a waste of my time.</p>
<p>I'm in the same delimna. I have two full rides that I have to accept by May 1st too... So maybe I shouldn't do it, because if I don't get in from waitlist, then I lost those :-(</p>
<p>ditto here. i have been waitlisted for washu, marquette honors program, and now ND...</p>
<p>I just dont know what i want to do anymore!</p>
<p>And then the Pope dies... What a day to find out all this bad news!</p>
<p>At least you were waitlisted! My son was rejected.</p>
<p>But if I were rejected I would know what to do. I would have to dchoose one of my others. Now I have the option to wait to see if I could get in... but no, that would be too dangerous (to lose two full rides on a dream)</p>
<p>Yeah I was waitlisted too, I am accepting my place and I may send in a few things, but I am definitely not going to miss a deadline to commit to another school, that would be craziness. At least we can cling to the fact that we weren't rejected!</p>
<p>Bri - Colleges that waitlist you know that you will and must make plans with another college.</p>
<p>I was also waitlisted, but I never planned on attending Notre Dame, so it's all good. I've already filled out the card asking whether I want to remain on the waitlist or not. I checked the box asking them to withdraw my application. It's all ready to be mailed out on Monday. Good Luck to the rest of you who want to remain on the waitlist!!!</p>
<p>be thankful you got waitlisted. notre dame is my life. i got rejected. its not going to be my life anymore. not because i dont want it to be, but because it can't be. they simply said thanks, but no thanks. be thankful u have been given a chance...best of luck</p>
<p>Wow, it is nice to commiserate with all of you on discovering that we were wait-listed. I guess I shall stay on, while committing to other schools. I never really could afford it anyway, but man it had always been a dream of mine just to get in. This wierd LIMBO is worse than not getting accepted at all. I have large scholarships to podunk little hole in the wall private Catholic universities, but they don't even offer Architecture, which was my planned major. I guess now I have to go through lame undergrad and then go to ND for graduate school, and still end up in a lot of debt. The graduate experience at ND just isn't the same. AHHHH, well, at least I know that there are other brighter people on the waiting list above me, what a comfort knowing all you smart people made it there too. YAY!</p>
<p>So for us who have been waitlisted, how do we update our information? Is it an online thing we have to fill out?</p>
<p>I believe its through the mail. We can just mail it to the admissions office with enough information for them to get it filed under the right name and address for the 600 of us that they say are ON the waiting list.</p>
<p>Hey I was wondering if you guys who got wait-listed wouldn't mind giving ur academic stats, just to see exactly how the chips fall for those of us registered on this forum, which represents about four of the six hundred applicants wait-listed. I got a 1400 SAT, a 31 ACT, and a 3.7 or higher throughout. I also went to a very small private catholic all boys boarding school and was number two in a class of 12, putting me somewhere in the top 17%.....strange stat when you think about it. I was as involved in the community as one can be LIVING at school, I was in student gov, speech and debate, all varsity sports teams except baseball. It was said well before, "we're good enough, but they still reject us." Maybe that is the toughest part, the limited space.</p>
<p>ACT: 31
GPA: 4.2
Rank: 4/275
APs: psych (4), calc, physics, lit</p>
<p>EC's - really awesome
Essay - sweet
recs - great</p>
<p>factors - nobody has been accepted from my school for 11 years, and one was accepted EA. He was better than me with he classes that he took, but i had higher grades...which would be expected i guess. But i didnt expect to get in once i found out that he did. My school just isn't a feeder!</p>
<p>1470 SAT
great ECS
3.99 GPA (weighted)
wonderful ECs... this is just rough....</p>
<p>I might fight the waiting list with all I've got... man I hope a bunch of people don't accept.</p>
<p>Don't worry so much, a ton of people always get in off the waiting list. I have 5 friends I can name right now that were waitlisted and then later accepted. It is definately worth a shot, give it everything you have got because if you want to go here you will easily stand out from those who were just applying to see if they could get in as they will do nothing. Being waitlisted is yet another opporunity, use it to your advantage. I know I sound crazy but it is because I have seen it work time and time again!</p>
<p>1400 SAT (640m, 760v)
3.8 uw hardest class load except AP Chem
great ecs but no national awards or anything huge like that
my rec was amazing
essay: could've been better, I am thinking or writing a new one and sending it in</p>