<p>I'm going to be a junior in highschool. Here's some points about me:
-3.96 unweighted GPA
-Take as many AP classes as offered to me and the rest are honors
-Spanish 4 as a junior
-Student Council Executive Board
-Model U.N.
-Interact Club (volunteering in the community)
-Campus Ministry
-Music Ministry
-International Thespian Society
-National Honor Society
-Over 100 hours of service just as a freshman and sophomore
-Volunteered at a cancer center
-Theater all year around (in place of sports)
-Ranked in the top 10 of my class</p>
<p>If I am able to ace my SAT's and take a few SAT Subject Tests and do well, can I get into Notre Dame?! Thanks!(:</p>
<p>You have pretty strong stats so far. If you do well on your SAT, I’d say you have an above average chance.</p>
<p>I graduated from ND long ago. You have a strong profile for admission. But the key is to visit the campus in the middle of winter and analyze the social life in an informal setting. Notre Dame is in a small midwestern neighborhood that is isolated from the college-town type of environment found at Northwestern, UF, CU Boulder, etc. Plus it’s just really cold in the winter. I also found the social life to be homogeneous. Most of the students were really rich and had gone to private Catholic schools or public schools on the rich side of town (i.e. suburban Detroit as opposed to the inner city). The disparity in socioeconomic backgrounds often led to tensions with minority students. ND did have a problem with racial tension back in the 90s. Google “SUFR” and you may find the old articles. </p>
<p>But I went back to visit a few years ago, and the campus diversity seemed really awesome. In the years I was gone it appeared that ND did change a lot in terms of social atmosphere. I did not sense the racial tension that had been back there in the 90s. And ND even had an African American valadectorian recently. So it looks like ND has gotten better for minority students. But in the 80s and 90s it was tough. </p>
<p>However, the Irish Catholic students I knew at Notre Dame were almost always happy there. If you are Irish Catholic, you’ll probably love it. Just visit the campus in an informal setting when people’s guards are down to see if you really like it. Also check facebook. If you find you truly do want to go to Notre Dame but don’t get accepted, you can reapply as a graduate student. In my case, I wish I had done the master’s degree (3-4 semesters) at ND rather than the four-year undergraduate curriculum. It would have been better in my case.</p>