It's official! :)

<p>im still waiting for mine...i guess pennsylvania hasnt gotten theirs yet</p>

<p>I GOT MY ACCEPTANCE LETTER!</p>

<p>And apparently, I have been designated a Notre Dame Scholar too!</p>

<p>OH YEAH!</p>

<p>Congratulations to all! Hopefully we can all meet up next year in South Bend =)
Looks like CC has a 100% admit rate from ND so far.</p>

<p>I like it.</p>

<p>Congrats everyone! Notre Dame is a great place to be. You'll have a fantastic time.</p>

<p>I'm accepted wahooo!</p>

<p>Congrats mandorf and everyone. CCGmom is right--Notre Dame is a great place to be!</p>

<p>Hey, everyone want to post stats or not?</p>

<p>If you don't want to, that's fine, but here's the form every one else is using: <a href="http://www.ubermeese.com/format.txt%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ubermeese.com/format.txt&lt;/a>. Just copy and paste it and put your stats after all of the colons.</p>

<p>Here, I'll start:</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted </p>

<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]SAT IIs: 730, 740, 800
[<em>]GPA: 3.973 UW 4.073 W
[</em>]Rank: Top 2%, 8/304
[<em>]Other stats: 3 on AP Euro, 5 on AP Stats, National Merit Semifinalist, etc.
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: I wrote about the conquering fear one, about how I was seven and there was a monster in my window and it was because the blinds were open and I got up and closed the blinds and went to sleep. :P Nothing Pulitzer-worthy, don't worry.
[<em>]Teacher Recs: I think they were pretty good
[</em>]Counselor Rec: He likes me, but he's the school's football coach so who knows how much he put into it.
[<em>]Hook (if any): Someone close to me passed away about a year ago, and I still got straight A's last semester...I think my recs were based on this fact.
[/ul]
Location/Person:
[ul]
[</em>]State or Country: WI
[<em>]School Type: Public, but competitive in our area
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]
*Other Factors: *
[ul]
[</em>] I think I covered everything
[/ul]</p>

<p>General Comments: Does anyone who goes to ND know how highly "Notre Dame Scholars" are looked on? Is it anything special? What does it even mean?</p>

<p>haha i'm dying</p>

<p>ACCEPTED!!!!!!! I'm from Minnesota. Hooray!</p>

<p>ddjones: You must be my twin sister, although my d got deffered at Princeton ED....but I had all types of fantasies about running to her school with her acceptance. Only..................a small envelope came with her deferral and I sobbed for one-half hour. She was out of state at a tournament at the time with her Dad. Thank goodness I wasn't the one that had to tell her. She is now applying RD at ND...........</p>

<p>I just got my Acceptance! You can add New York to the list.</p>

<p>MommyPain, the night before the letter came, I was twisted in knots while the two oldest men of the house--my husband and my high school senior--were almost amused. After all, they both reasoned, the decision has already been made--worrying won't help it any. (Yet another concrete example of Men from Mars, Women from Venus :) )</p>

<p>In any event, at that point I asked my son what he'd do if he were rejected or deferred, and he said, in all earnestness, "Mom, if I don't get into ND, then it must be for a reason...there must be something else intended for me...."</p>

<p>Maybe your daughter's deferral from Princeton is because there is a better path awaiting her. Given that Princeton's early decision is binding (it is, isn't it?), there's a very good possibility she may come to find out that one of the other schools her early D app precluded her from submitting is actually the best place for her.</p>

<p>As an ND alum, you bet I'm biased, but ND is nothing to shake a stick at. Princeton's loss may well be ND's--and your daughter's--gain!</p>

<p>Hang tuff, MP, worry-warts though we may be, when push comes to shove, we moms can withstand just about anything!</p>

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>

<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1320 (680 V, 640 M)
[</em>]SAT IIs: 700 USH, 740 WH, 780 WR
[<em>]GPA: 3.741
[</em>]Rank: 29th out of 800ish
[<em>]Other stats: Uhm. Dunno.
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Not so great, IMHO.
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Great!
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Great!
[<em>]Hook (if any): None, really.
[/ul]
Location/Person:
[ul]
[</em>]State or Country: California/USA
[<em>]School Type: Public/Disadvantaged
[</em>]Ethnicity: Korean/Asian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]
Other Factors:
[ul]
[</em>] Uhm. None, I think,
[/ul]</p>

<p>**General Comments: Go Irish? LOL. ND was one of my top choices for college (GU Georgetown being the top), but we'll see in April.. This acceptance had made me SO HAPPY from the deferral from GU. Not to sound superficial, but it has.. (I'm a regular member of the GU board here on CC.. you can see my disappointment)</p>

<p>Go Irish!**</p>

<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED * </p>

<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1460 -800 math 660 verbal
[</em>]SAT IIs: 650 IIC 610 Writing 630 US History
[<em>]GPA:4.2
[</em>]Rank:42/402
[<em>]Other stats:
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: awesome i thought (i think it's what got me in)
[<em>]Teacher Recs:even better
[</em>]Counselor Rec:OK, formulated though and not very personal
[<em>]Hook (if any):no
[/ul]
Location/Person:
[ul]
[</em>]State or Country: San diego, ca
[<em>]School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[li]Gender:male[/li][/ul]
Other Factors:
[ul]
[/ul]</p>

<p>General Comments: I'm lucky</p>

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>

<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800M, 680V (1480)
[</em>]SAT IIs: Did not turn them in, but I have a 780 IIC and 700 Writing
[<em>]GPA:4.3
[</em>]Rank:3/147
[<em>]Other stats: None
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Good
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Didn't see it, probably good
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Didn't see it, probably good
[<em>]Hook (if any): Non-Catholic (?). Was honest and marked "yes" for crime (violated park curfew). Dunno if those made a difference.
[/ul]
Location/Person:
[ul]
[</em>]State or Country: Colorado
[<em>]School Type: Parochial
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[li]Gender:Male[/li][/ul]
Other Factors: None that I can think of.
[ul]
[/ul]</p>

<p>General Comments: These stats mean nothing anymore! I'M GOING TO NOTRE DAME!!!</p>

<p>Decision:ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 700M, 800V (1500)
[</em>]SAT IIs: 800 Biology-M, 760 Math IIC, 740 Math IC, 730 Writing
[<em>]GPA: 4.27 weighted, cumulative
[</em>]Rank: None given, most likely top 10 of class.
[<em>]Other stats: Didn't take ACT. AP Bio: 5, AP Euro: 4
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: I liked it and so did the people I ran it by, so I think my essay was pretty good. I created my own topic and threw a bit of humor into it, so I had fun with it.
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Didn't see it. Good, as far as I know. I had one of my favorite teachers write mine.
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Didn't see it. Also good, I'd imagine.
[<em>]Hook (if any): Brother went there, sister's a senior there now.
[/ul]
Location/Person:
[ul]
[</em>]State or Country: Ohio
[<em>]School Type: Private
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian/White
[li]Gender: Male[/li][/ul]
Other Factors: My science extracurriculars, I suppose.
[ul]
[/ul]</p>

<p>General Comments: I'm in!!!! Thank God and thanks for all the support... I feel like I was the last to find out, but that really doesn't matter anymore. Plus... I was named a Notre Dame Scholar!!!! Wow. This has been one hell of a day and it's only 2 o'clock! Now I can stop worrying about my RD applications!</p>

<p>Way to go, TenBelow! I just KNEW you'd get in... Congratulations and have a very Merry Christmas! My guess, is, after this present, Santa will have a tough act to follow. :)</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted </p>

<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 700 V 780 M
[</em>]SAT IIs: Math IIC 800 US History 760 Writing 730
[<em>]GPA: 3.83 UW 4.245 W
[</em>]Rank: 23/715
[<em>]Other stats: None
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: I thought my essay was pretty good. It was about my conversion to Catholicism.
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Good.
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Good.
[<em>]Hook (if any): It might have been that I lived in Indonesia for 2 years. I also converted to Catholicism when I was 16.
[/ul]
Location/Person:
[ul]
[</em>]State or Country: Arizona
[<em>]School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Indonesian/White
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]
Other Factors:
[ul]
[</em>] I don't know if this helped, but I let them know it was my first choice. I also met the rep in charge of my area when he visited my school.
[/ul]</p>

<p>General Comments: This is so awesome!</p>

<p>To DDJones007:</p>

<p>Thank you for your encouraging reply. Yes, perhaps there is something better out there for my D. Perhaps it is ND..........we will see.........</p>

<p>Merry Christmas to all....</p>