<p>I was just wondering if anybody could chance me for undergraduate admission for Notre Dame.</p>
<p>I go to a pretty prestigious and rigorous Catholic High School and the best grade possible is an A (no A+s)</p>
<p>Grades
Freshman</p>
<p>French II- B-
Art- B+
Biology- A-
Geometry Honors- B+
English I- A-
Religion- A-
Global History- A-
Health- A
(Only two honors courses offered freshman year)</p>
<p>Sophomore (Can't take APs 'til Jr year)
English II Honors- A-
French III- A-
Scripture- A
US History Honors- A-
Chem- A
Art- A
Algebra II/Trig Honors- A-
Health A</p>
<p>Junior Year (Grades as of now)</p>
<p>Physics Honors B+/A-
AP English Language and Composition- B+
Music- A
French IV- A-
AP USH- A
Religion- A
Calc Honors- A-/A</p>
<p>ACT: 33 </p>
<p>For my senior year classes I plan to take AP Macro and Micro Econ, AP EnviSci, AP Stats, maybe EuroHis AP, English IV and Religion. What do you think of these?</p>
<p>Extras: 150 hours of community service with underprivileged children
2 Summers of internships with local college summer baseball league (gameday set up and operations)
Elected to Student Council and on Student Council
Founded An Irish Sports Club which promotes Irish Sports (kind of like a club sport)
Varsity Athlete- Track- Have been contacted colleges- I'm pretty good- so this is a hook
Freshman XC Captain (Elected)
Probably going to have an internship with a British Politician in Great Britain for a month in the summer to learn how their government works and all
Founded a Ping Pong Tournament for Charity Soph year</p>
<p>I applied to ND this year in Early Action and got deferred, so I’m still waiting. I got a 32 on the ACT, and apparently their “benchmark” this year was 33. That being said, you should get in. You have the numbers and EC’s. And I’m telling you, there were guys at my school with worse EC’s, leadership, and rank than me who got in because they had a 33 and I had a 32. ND only cares about test scores.</p>
<p>I applied to ND too in early action and got accepted. I…got a 29 on my ACT, lol, and like a 1360/1600 on my SAT. ND doesn’t only care about test scores. However, I am a minority so that might have pushed it over for me, haha. You seem like you’ve got your stuff down…I think you’ll get in!</p>
<p>You’re a minority, therefore non-minorities can’t compare their stats or admissions to your yours. It’s like middle school football VS high school football.</p>
<p>^^Exactly. Maybe not that extreme, but I am white, which means I have to do better on tests to get in. Just the way it is. @Black’s Law, thanks for the vote of confidence though.</p>
<p>I’m Asian though, you’d think they’d expect more from me given statistics and stuff! It’s whatever for me as I am very grateful for the opportunity that I have been given. I had some pretty good extracurriculars, if that helped, hah. @ngeeze No problem, that’s what I do. Good luck!</p>
<p>^Asians are not generlly URMs at elite unitiversities (although ND’s admissions policies have been far from progressive over the years and they are not as well represented at ND as they are at the Tier 1 schools). You got in with a 29 because you presented a convincing case through your application of a candidate that met the academic preparedness threshold, while also offering a fit for the culture of the university and offering a uniqueness that would contribute to the class. Your story, and stats, are not the exception either.</p>
<p>The 33 threshold comments are just bitterness. There is no 33 ACT threshold at Notre Dame for whites this year or any year, and is just not how the admissions process works. If you check the Common Data Set you will find that the midpoint ACT score for enrolled freshman at ND is 32; meaning in the neighborhood of 50% of enrolled freshman at ND scored equal or below a 32.</p>
<p>^^@hinsdale1, I’ll admit that some of it is bitterness, and I think that giving preference to URMs is wrong. However, I am being completely honest with the ACT 33 threshold stuff. My high school counselor has a good relationship with the ND admissions officer for my state, and she said I really needed a 33. So I’m taking the March SAT to try to get it up. The salutatorian in my class got flat out rejected with a 30. And you mentioned that the midpoint ACT is 32. I read that too before I applied and thought I would be fine. It could be that RD is less competitive than EA, and they wanted you to have a 33 to be accepted in EA. Maybe those people accepted in RD bring the average down to 32.</p>