<p>Those stats and record make you a credible candidate at ND, but they tend to look for a highly involved, active student (though breaking into 2100+ range will help – few students we know were admitted to ND without 2100+ or 33+ scores). Sounds like you have the foundation for some interesting stories to tell in your essays, but if you are serious about ND, you want to really spend time on the web etc, reading about the school culture in order to write essays that will show what ND means to you. </p>
<p>As a parent who has been through this, I would describe all of your identified schools as reaches – any school which admits 25%, or significantly less, of the applicants is not a match or safety for anyone. Well-qualified students are rejected every year from those schools, whose records seem, to outsiders, no different from the admitted students. </p>
<p>Work on identifying your safeties – Purdue and Case Western might be matches or safeties, I don’t know enough about engineering admissions to identify the difference for those schools. Similarly, another school to look at might be Engineering at Univ Illinois Urbana Champagn – I don’t know if that is a match or not as students apply for direct admission to Engineering and stats at UIUC Engineering are much higher than Arts and Sciences (where my son had applied and was admitted). </p>
<p>Again, as a parent, my view is that no top 20 university or college is a match or safety because so many well-qualified applicants are rejected. Your records might qualify you for serious consideration, but beyond that, there is no way to predict. Matches and safeties need to be pulled from the next tier down, for high stat kids.</p>