<p>I just saw that Notre Dame, along with 22 other colleges, has announced that it will adopt the common application for next year's admissions. So this year's Juniors will be filling in the common application (presumably with a supplement) instead of Notre Dame's own application form. What do you think it will mean for admissions for next year? Thoughts?</p>
<p>There will be a lot more applicants.</p>
<p>I wish I was able to apply via commonapp!</p>
<p>I'm glad I'm old enough for this not to have any effect on me. As if the admissions pool isn't already hard enough...</p>
<p>wow that is going to increase the pool substantially.... what were the the other colleges mentioned?</p>
<p>where did you see this? link?</p>
<p>ARE YOU SERIOUS
BLAH.
So much effort on ND's app, haha...</p>
<p>It's at commonapp.org. Other notable schools are UVA and the University of Chicago, along with several of the SUNY's.</p>
<p>That's a good thing since there was nothing that distinguished Notre Dame's app from the common app and their online interface was very poor.</p>
<p>Suppose that's going to increase applicants even more though.</p>
<p>link: <a href="https://app.commonapp.org/CommonApp/news.aspx#298663%5B/url%5D">https://app.commonapp.org/CommonApp/news.aspx#298663</a>
I think this movement is accompanied by both positive and negative implications. There would be a lower acceptance rate, which might be good or bad depending on the viewpoint: more rejections but the university itself will appear more selective. Also, disinterested applicants will be accepted and not matriculate.</p>
<p>Is Notre Dame still going to allow only one teacher recommendation?</p>
<p>i figured Chicago would eventually come over to the "dark" side... mwuahaha! (or however you spell it...).</p>
<p>1) UChicago will still require its applicants to submit its wonderfully insane essays, so sorry arachnophobia, they're still in the light. ;)</p>
<p>2) Personally, I thought Notre Dame's online app sucked, so anything is better by comparison.</p>