Chances for Notre Dame

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Notre Dame
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<p>Location: Florida
School: Large Prestegious Private School
Class Size: approx. 600
Class Rank: Does not rank
Race: White</p>

<p>Cumulative Weighted GPA: 4.538
Cumulative unweighted GPA: 3.538
PSAT Score: 216 (80 CR, 63 M, 73 W 99th percentile)
SAT Score: 2220 (750 CR, 690 M, 780 W)
ACT Score: 31 (32 E, 28 M, 33 R, 30 SCI)
Honor Roll: 9, 10, 11, 12
Classes: 8 AP
16 Honors
AP Scores:
World History 3
Human Geography 3
AP US History 5
AP Lang and Comp 5</p>

<p>Here is my resume that was composed for the Guidance Department:</p>

<p>Awards/ Honors
National Honors Society
National Merit
AP Scholar with Honor
First Honor Roll: 9
Principal Honor Roll: 10, 11, 12
Saint Thomas Aquinas Athletic Award: 11, 12
Saint Thomas Aquinas Service Award: 9, 12
University of New Mexico Certificate of Merit: 11
Perfect Attendance: 2-8, 9, 10, 11, 12</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities
Football: 9, 10, 11<em>, 12</em> Lettered
JV: 9, 10 Varsity: 11, 12
Undefeated Regular Season: 9, 10, 11
District Champions: 11
Regional Champions: 11
Combined Record: 25-1<br>
National Honors Society Tutor: 11, 12
Nativity Parish Youth Group: 9, 10, 11<em>, 12</em> President
Volunteered with:
Saint Vincent DePaul Society: 9, 10, 11, 12
Habitat for Humanity: 10, 11, 12
Volunteer Broward: 11, 12
Broward Gold Coast Down’s Syndrome Organization: 9, 10, 11, 12
The Seafarers House Project: 11, 12
Nativity Parish Lector: 9, 10, 11, 12
Nativity Parish Usher: 10, 11, 12
Nativity Parish Alter Server: 3 years
Spanish Club: 10, 11
Service Hours: 350+</p>

<p>Leadership Experience
Nativity Parish Youth Group- President-
Organized club and community service activities</p>

<p>Pre- College Summer Experience
Summer Academic Courses (taken at Saint Thomas):
Personal Fitness, 9
Integrated Science I Honors, 10
Digital Photography Honors, 11
Biotechnology Honors, 12
University of Florida Outstanding High School Scholars Program</p>

<p>Employment
Team Martial Arts Centers- Summer Camp Counselor: 10</p>

<p>In essays i have mentioned strong development in GPA and EC's
GPA Freshman year: 4.1, Sophmore year 4.5, and Junior Year 5.1</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
Honors Theology
Honors Calculus
Honors Physics
AP Macroeconomic
AP US Gov
AP Psych
AP Lit and Comp</p>

<p>Also applying to University of Florida and Yale</p>

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<p>Your SAT is very good, ACT is okay (but you have good SATs), but low GPA. ND also seems to care about an applicant’s interest to their college, so with good essays I think you can put ND as a low reach. Good luck.</p>

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<p>i would not report ACT and only report SAT and apply RD to get your unweighted GPA up a little, but other than those two things you look to be in great shape. Make sure you have quality recs. You are invovled with a lot but make sure you also make an impact in your one or two areas of passion - that is also key - quantity and quality - you need both</p>

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<p>So colleges do see senior year grades? I could easily get my gpa up to a 3.6-7 with one semester senior year but I’ve heard that colleges don’t see the senior semesters.</p>

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<p>Also many of that volunteer work is a part if what I organize in youth group and footballs my main activity is that focused enough to have those two as well as strong parish involvement?</p>

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<p>Colleges do see senior year grades, but they will not help you or hurt you much as long as they are decent. Personally, I would apply early if I were you. You have a strong resume, and I highly doubt that you would be rejected if you applied early; the worst would be a deferment, and even if that happened I think that you would still get in. My SAT scores and grades and extracurriculars were not as strong as yours, and I was accepted early, so I think you would be fine if you chose that. As for your youth group and football being your main activities, I think you will be fine as long as you can show Notre Dame that you do put a lot of your effort into those activities.</p>

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<p>^my major extra-curricular activity was in terms of swimming (I basically took over all the administrative issues for my coach, made a team website, etc, etc), so there is no reason why football can’t be your passion (especially seeing as though you are volunteering and putting more into it than just playing. Additionally, I am not swimming here at Notre Dame so it is not like you have to be a top notch athlete in order for a sport to be your major extra-curricular activity. </p>

<p>Schools will see your first semester grades (if you are in the regular decision - though a deferment in the early admissions group would put you there as well).</p>

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<p>See I would like to apply early action then if in deferred I can still show them the same things as I would regular decision. It cones down to do you think they’d flat out reject my application first go around?</p>

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<p>I apologize for typos, I’m on an autocorrecting mobile device</p>

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<p>you should be fine with early action - but i am not making any guarantees – i would think you probably are 55% accepted 44% deferred and 1% rejected</p>

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<p>And would you expect those chances to rise with good recommendation letters and essays?</p>

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<p>yes, but I think it may be the kind of situation where they are almost positive that you will be accepted but want to see how you do in your first semester. I can go either way - if i was ND, I would look to accept you but i might want to see that gpa go up a little first – it is a tough decision. </p>

<p>now in RD i think your chances go up to more around 75/80 to 25/20 in favor of acceptance</p>

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<p>Thank you for your help, when you explain it that way it makes me feel a little better. Would it be accurate to say that Florida is a semi- safest school and Yale is a reach school?</p>

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<p>I’ve also read that if you apply EA and you don’t get accepted it’s an automatic rejection. Which sounds unfounded and ridiculous. And would you know how I fit in statistically with the EA admits?</p>

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<p>I feel like Yale is a reach for anyone and I would think that Florida should be a safe school and would be stupid not to accept you. As far as stats, I would just ask your local admissions counselor </p>

<p>And i have heard of people getting deferred and getting accepted so it does happen</p>

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<p>Pare down your honors and activities; at a certain point the details become annoying. A padded resume tends to work against you. Regarding your chances, you could get into Yale and be rejected by Notre Dame; you just never know. At this level admissions decisions can seem entirely random. Most importantly, make sure that nothing you submit is as carelessly written as your postings here. “Of course I’ll be more careful,” you’ll no doubt say, but it’s a bad habit and you should always have that imaginary red pencil at hand.</p>

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<p>As far as paring down, what would you suggest getting rid of that is annoying? And if you honestly think I have a realistic shot at getting into Yale, I’m flattered. As far as these postings I’m not on a computer so the spelling gets corrected on its own to whatever it thinks it is. But I would like to get your opinion as far as chances and schools that would match me and if notre dame Yale and Florida are good picks</p>

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<p>Looking at your activities, there really isn’t anything that is an obvious one to remove — now on some application you can only mention something like 7-8 ECs so that is where you are going to have to select the ones that you deal with the most and only you can make that decision. That is why I always liked the idea of having about 8 things that you do in high school and having three of those be your focus - it work well when you look at it on an application. </p>

<p>al your picks are good picks, but you have to realize that college admissions is a very funny business … for example, one of my teachers had told me to look into MIT so I applied mostly for fun and got accepted. I didn’t choose them after a visit, but it was a cool feeling going on admissions tours with you being picky and versus just trying to make a good impression on them — that is why i think it is great to apply to any school you want to – you never know what may happen and then you can go on “recruiting” visits which is a neat feeling.</p>

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<p>You don’t need to mention things like being on the honor roll; EVERYONE who applies to Yale and Notre Dame is on the honor roll, and they have your transcript anyway. You can also skip things like local athletic and service awards that wouldn’t mean anything to an admissions counselor. Attendance awards won’t help either. You don’t have to itemize your volunteer work; give an estimate of your total hours and mention the most important activities (I’ve seen people post resumes here that list things like “3 hrs. parish bake sale”). The important thing is to focus on your primary talents and strengths; everyone knows that you do other things too, and it’s better to appear modest than to (again) pad your resume.
An example of little things that DO matter: a misspelling on the second line of your resume (prestegious). It doesn’t take long to proofread a single page, to change National Honors Society to National Honor Society.
Your SAT scores are good enough for Yale and Notre Dame, but both schools reject MANY applicants with scores like yours. It is indeed possible that you would get into Yale and not Notre Dame, but it’s unlikely. The point is that you just have no way of getting into admissions officers’ heads.
Best of luck!</p>

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<p>^^ Come on, he has said twice that he does not use a computer and that a lot of the grammatical mistakes are because of the software he is using to communicate on this site — yes it is critical to spell everything write on applications and resumes but I don’t write in perfect english on this site and I had a perfect application.</p>