Details:
Business/finance major (most likely)
No financial Aid required
Junior
Male
White
ACT-33 superscore (36 S 32 R, 32 M 30 E), 32 Single test date
GPA- 3.82UW, 4.15W, (strong upward trend)
IB Spanish and business junior year, probably will get 6 or 7 on both IB exams
All core classes are IB for senior year
Safety schools: IU (Kelley), Ohio State (Fisher), Miami (Farmer), Alabama (idk their business school for some reason)
Schools I’m curious about: UVA (Mcintire), UNC (Kegan Flagler), ND (Mendoza), Georgetown (Mcdonough)
Recs: strong, great relationship w/ counselor and teacher rec is with former NASA employee, also great relationship w/ him
Resume (still in the works)
Varsity basketball 2x
Varsity Football 1x
Started lawn mowing business (10 Clients)
Started Basketball clinic for little kids (10 -15 clients)
worked champions together camp 3 years (Camp for special needs athletes)
volunteer basketball camp worker at high school 4x
over 100 service hours
DECA
Ale Emporium Job for 2 years (local bar and grill)
top 10% in class at both high schools I attended/am attending (Transferred freshman year)
honor roll (both HS’s)
Certification of multilingual proficiency in the state of Indiana (Spanish)
No legacies to schools but, I am in state for ND and my HS is a Catholic high school that ND obviously favors based on previous accepted applicants.
Please chance me for the schools in the title. If I’m missing anything important please lmk!!
You are a competitive applicant. Your stats are good and your ECs are decent. Write great essays and you could get accepted to any of these schools
Reminder that ‘in-state’ doesn’t matter for ND, as it is a private U (the Catholic school connection will help, obvs).
Also, UNC has a hard cap of 18% OOS, including recruited athletes, which makes the admissions stats a bit misleading.
UVa is more difficult out-of-state, but you look competitive. Note that the undergrad business school requires a separate application during your second year.
These are all great schools, so best of luck with all 3! Just a few points on ND to make sure you have the correct info:
- The catholic school connection, in general, is not necessarily an edge. Most recent stats for class of 2021 show only 39% of enrolled students came from Catholic high schools. Stats for admitted students might be different, but I would imagine not significantly.
https://admissions.nd.edu/apply/admission-statistics/
Unless you mean your particular high school (that happens to be Catholic) has a good track record of getting students admitted. In that case, yes that’s possible for any elite high school, Catholic or not.
- With regard to being in-state for ND -- since it's not a state school, there won't be a residency bump. I wasn't sure if you thought it would give you an edge, even for a private school, because you are from Indiana. I don't know if that's the case. ND is a very national university, with students coming from all over the US & abroad. Only 15% of students accepted this year came from the midwest. If you want to find out the % for IN specifically, that might be a good question for your regional admissions counselor
https://ndsmcobserver.com/2018/04/notre-dame-admits-class-of-2022/
- ND also requires a separate application to it's undergrad business school (Mendoza). If you don't apply direct as a freshman, you can apply to transfer for sophomore year, but it's not guaranteed.
I just want to correct my post above. The application to Mendoza is not “separate” in that you have another set of forms to fill out. But you do have to list Mendoza as the school to which you want to apply when you submit your application to ND. Then you are either pre-approved to attend Mendoza or you aren’t. So it is possible to be accepted to ND, but not to Mendoza, even though that was your first choice. Again, if this happens, you still have the option to try to transfer in sophomore year. I hope that makes sense, sorry for the confusion
Yes, I understand, thank you!