Hey!! I’ll be submitting my ND application soon and I just wanted to get an idea of my chances:
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
High School: public, considered a very good public school
Religion: Catholic
Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
ACT: 34 w/ 10 out of 12 for writing
Weighted Average: 102.61
Unweighted Average: ~96
Class Rank: Top 5% out of about 590, but I don’t think my school includes that on the transcript
Senior Year Classes:
AP Calc BC
AP English Lit and Compostion
Concert Band (have been playing clarinet since 5th grade)
AP Government/AP Economics (each half a year)
AP Chem II
Honors Engineering Design and Development (PLTW)
I’ve taken a total of 13 AP classes and 8 honors and only one college prep class (calculus in 10th grade). After this year, I also would’ve completed the Project Lead the Way program.
AP Scores:
World History (5), Human Geography (5), Physics 1 (4), Calc AB (5), Statistics (4), Language and Composition (5)
Separate Awards:
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-National Merit Scholar Semi-Finalist (finalists have not been listed yet)
ECs:
-President of school’s Technology Student Association (TSA)
-Regional Officer for TSA
-Girl Scouts since 3rd grade
-NHS
-Member of American Red Cross Club (volunteer work)
-Member of club that raises money and does events for special needs kids
-Captain for three years of Odyssey of the Mind team
-Volunteer at my church’s CCD (Sunday school)
Legacies:
My cousin did grad school there, and my cousin and her husband work for the school and their sister school (she’s head of admissions at St. Mary’s, and he’s a lawyer for ND). These definitely aren’t strong legacies (like a sibling or parent) but ND includes them on their applications.
Recs:
The guidance letter is probably pretty standard, but my teacher recommendation is from my AP Human Geo teacher who I’ve talked about Notre Dame with a lot. He catered it specifically to ND based on their mission statement, so I think it’s pretty strong.