<p>Okay, so I applied EA with a 30 ACT, and I recall being in an information session at Notre Dame and hearing that unless you have at least a 32 ACT, you should apply regular decision.</p>
<p>I mainly applied EA to get my application in already, and it wouldn't be significantly improved by the RD date. I was thinking I'll just get deferred and wait until the RD decision time. However, I just heard that it's very uncommon for ND to defer people, and that they defer around 100 students, and the rest are either rejected/accepted.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if this is true? I'm thinking it may have been a bad idea to apply EA...</p>
<p>My son who also had a 30 ACT applied last year RD. He was told by his regional rep not to apply ED with a 30 even though he was a third generation legacy. She told him to take the ACT/SAT again before the 1/1 RD deadline. He did, did better on the SAT (can’t remember by I think it was a 2080). He was waitlisted until mid July and then, sadly, rejected. He had a strong application, high GPA, good rank but last year I think the average ACT was something like 32 or 33. Not saying that you can’t get in with a 30 I think that was fine several years ago but today it is just much more competitive. I have to say I think that you got some bad advice about applying ED but you never know. Good Luck and be sure to have a solid second choice school.</p>
<p>You will find the 2009 EA numbers at post 54 of the thread titled 2009 admission stats. I’ll bump it to the top of the list. There were 660 deferred students out of 3,884 EA apps last year. The danger is that without a strong test score and app you will be rejected outright. I know a student who was rejected EA three years ago with a 34 ACT, but who ended up with a full tuition scholarship to Tulane.</p>