Hi everyone. I applied to transfer to the University of Notre Dame this spring as a sophomore. I am not sure if I will get in (they only accept 5-10 people out of 100 apps) and in the event I don’t, I want to have a backup plan. If I don’t get in, I will apply to ND again in the fall. Either way, I am not returning to my current institution next fall. I love the culture at Notre Dame and I really want to attend a school with a similar culture. Do you know of any schools that have a culture like the University of Notre Dame? Thank you for your help!
What is it exactly about ND that you like? religious aspect? sports culture? location?
Offhand some ideas might be Gtown, BC, Villanova, Marquette, Providence, Xavier, Gonzaga (many of which have good basketball teams if sports is an attribute you are looking for ). Holy Cross, Fordham might be other alternatives (without big-time sports but competitive in their league).
A complete list of Jesuit college is below so you can look for academic/geographic etc. fits.
http://www.ajcunet.edu/institutions/
Also read through this recent post for suggestions.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/christian-colleges/1906507-notre-dame-alternatives-p1.html
From another post it sounds like you became happier in your current school so staying put might be a good alternative as well.
First I thought you meant North Dakota (lol)
Look in the Fiske Guide: it says that overlaps are: Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, Harvard
Saint Louis University, very similar with obvious difference in certain situations. I think a parent who has children going to each school had a post about it.
Notre Dame better athletics small town, SLU is in the heart of a major city, that you don’t realize.
Notre Dame residential halls situation is awesome. SLU Professor’s our individual people who have smaller classes.
Having visited both Campus they are beautiful! ND is more of a square and SLU is rectangular
Wake Forest is often compared to ND, without the Catholicism. The President of Wake was the Provost at ND before he moved to Wake.
Marquette, Dayton, Xavier are Catholic schools which are often the match/safety schools for ND applicants in the midest.
Boston College, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Northwestern, Wake Forest, University of Miami, Villanova, maybe Syracuse. All selective schools with big time sports and a more pre-professional bent (as opposed to a more theoretical focus).
Miami of Ohio , Villanova