Business/finance major (most likely)
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Junior
Male
White
ACT-33 superscore (36 S 32 R, 32 M 30 E), 32 Single test date, taking it again on Oct 27 most likely will get at least 34 (I hadn’t prepared for any of the previous tests)
GPA- 3.84UW, 4.15W, (strong upward trend)
IB Spanish and business junior year, All core classes are IB for senior year (Not full IB diploma)
Recs will be solid, one is coming from a counselor who was an ND grad, other is from my IB history teacher
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 State
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)
My Catholic high school has had a strong track record in regards to sending kids to ND. I believe we are the second largest feeder into ND behind St. Joseph’s in South Bend, which should help, but I’m still worried about my chances being that ND is my clear number one choice.
How do you decide that his GPA is low - what if he goes to a school where they have a tougher grading or some teachers do not grade on a curve?
My son goes to a school where the top student is around 3.89 UW GPA – make sure to provide context to your GPA - that is the advice we are getting here and from other teachers.
ND (and most schools for that matter) will look at your GPA in the context of the whole applicant pool but also in context of your school. That is one reason they list class rank as being “important” in the CDS. In addition to the counselor’s comments, this will be in your school’s profile. As others have said, your ACT is at the 25th percentile for ND; bringing that up even a point could help. Essays are an extremely important piece to the ND application, so make sure your supplements will speak to why ND is the place for you, but also why you are right for ND. At this point, keep your grades up as junior year is said to be the most important in terms of academics. Also, because ND now superscores the ACT, work on those sections where your scores are weaker. It matters not one bit if that science subscore goes down. Concentrate on bringing the others up. I would also say to make contact with your regional rep, but wait until next summer. Good luck!
@josborn03 Excellent, I believe ND will seriously consider your application - make sure to put enough time and emphasis into your ND essays. As mentioned above, you might want to find out whether you will score higher in the ACT or the SAT, respectively. Many students do comparably better in one test format over the other. Very best of luck!
Thanks.