Notre Dame Class of 2016 EA/RD Decisions Thread!

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2280 700 M, 780 CR, 800 WR
[</em>]SAT II: 740 Lit, 670 Math 2
[<em>]ACT: 31
[</em>]GPA: 4.52 weighted/3.8 unweighted
[<em>]Rank: NA
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): IB</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Summer Scholar</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: South Florida
[</em>]High School Type: Private - non-Catholic
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male - Catholic</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Drama/Theater
[</em>]Awards: NM Commended, NCTE Writing Award
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 2130 superscore (2300 highest sitting)
SAT II: 700 US History
ACT: N/A
GPA: 5.5/6.0
Rank: N/A.
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): US History-5</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Essays: Amazing
Teacher Recs: Very postitive
Counselor Rec: amazing
Supplementary Material: N/A
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): nope</p>

<p>Personal</p>

<p>Location: Fairfield county, Ct.
High School Type: Private.
Ethnicity: Indian/caucasian
Gender: male.</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Varsity Baseball and Football, Captain, Prefect, Indian Liason- Digicel Cricket. Bossing in everything</p>

<p>Awards: highest academic rating- deans list. All- MAPL academic
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: All i do is win</p>

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<p>[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 2170 Superscored (790M, 710CR, 770W)
[ *]SAT II: 800 Math II, 740 US History
[ *]ACT: 33
[ *]GPA: 4.73 Weighted (Max is 5.33)
[ *]Rank: Top 10% in the school, but our school doesn’t do class rank
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP US History- 5, AP Language- 5, AP Literature- 3 (but I didn’t take the class I just took the test)</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: Good Common App essays, great Notre Dame essays in my opinion
[ *]Teacher Recs: Both should have been pretty solid
[ *]Counselor Rec: Probably very good
[ *]Supplementary Material:
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Legacy, Hispanic, Global Issues Seminar 2011</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: Chicago Suburbs
[ *]High School Type: Public
[ *]Ethnicity: Hispanic
[ *]Gender: Male</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars:
Tri-Ship (Male Student Body Government) President, Board Member
WNTH Station Manager, DJ
Sunday School Teacher
Boys & Girls Club Volunteer
Albany Park Service Club Volunteer
Safe Rides Volunteer
Build-On Homeroom Representative
Student Alliance Homeroom Representative
Bridge Builder (Aids sophomores’ transition between campuses)
Youth Group Member
Parish Volunteer
Intramural Basketball (sophomore year champions)
[ *]Awards: AP Scholar, National Merit Commendation, National Hispanic Recognition Program, Illinois State Scholar, Bronze Medal National Spanish Exam, Silver Medal National Latin Exam
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/list]
I am so happy I got in! I have worked so hard to get here and my whole family has been pushing me to go to Notre Dame my entire life. Huge relief to finally get in, and I know it’ll be a great four years! For any prospective students reading this, remember that Notre Dame values service work, which I have a lot of and I think that helped. Although being a double legacy couldn’t have hurt either!</p>

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<p>SAT scores for the last 2 guys don’t make sense.</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2090–not high, but that’s what the ACT is for (:
[</em>]SAT II:n/a
[<em>]ACT:34
[</em>]GPA:4.09 UW, 4.61 W
[<em>]Rank: unknown
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):5-AB Calc, 4- Eng. Language, Chemistry, World History, 3-APUSH</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: 1 funny, 1 all about ND, 1 serious
[</em>]Teacher Recs: From what I’ve heard, good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Raving
[</em>]Supplementary Material:n/a
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): legacy</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Tennessee
[</em>]High School Type: small, conservative, independent, private
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Gender: female</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Varsity Pom, Make-A-Wish president, Lumberjack club president, Math Tutoring center founder, Peer Leadership Council, various other club leadership, leadership and diversity program
[</em>]Awards: National Spanish, Latin, English, Science, History, Math, and Honor Societies, Cum Laude Society, Rensselaer Polytechnic Medal, Nominated for Hesburgh-Yusko scholarship, Math award, Citizenship awards
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Notre Dame wants people to be Domers for life. I’m sure being a legacy helped after reading some of these, but I have shown interest in Notre Dame since I was a freshman. I always met the reps, and I non- purposefully carried my Notre Dame blanket to the meeting, which according to my counselor made an impression. Keep great grades, push up the standardized test scores, and be able to have a multifaceted high school career with leadership positions.</p>

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<p>sorry it was a 2270 superscore</p>

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<p>calilove-what summer program did you attend? was it the global issues seminar?</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: none
[</em>]SAT II:780 chemistry, 740 math 1
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: 4.15 weighted, 3.79 unweighted
[<em>]Rank: none
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 on AP Chem, 3 on AP US, AP music theory, gov, econ, and calc AB this year</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: BAD
[</em>]Teacher Recs: okay
[<em>]Counselor Rec:okay
[</em>]Supplementary Material: JUST submitted the ARTS supplement for vocal music two days ago since I was deferred, definately should help my chances in RD pool
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none</p>[/li]
<p>[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[<em>]Location: Northern California
[</em>]High School Type: 2,200 person public, high achieving
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Gender:male</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: 3 years varsity water polo, varsity baseball, (year round club teams for both), Level 8 certificate of merit piano, vice prez of choir program, jazz vocal ensemble, chamber singers, winner of district voice competitions and member of ACDA all state and regional honor choirs. 100 service hours building houses at habitat for humanity
[</em>]Awards: best bass 2011, other singing stuff, chemistry genius award, scholar athlete blah blah
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] </p>[/li]
<p>I honestly had no idea what my chances were and after being rejected to MIT E.A. i was happy about the deferral… then I come here and see everyone is so upset about getting deferred haha. I sent in my arts supplement which will help, crossing my fingers!</p>

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<p>Well, this is incredibly late considering I’ve had my decision for over a month, but here it is.</p>

<p>Accepted
Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: Didn’t Submit
[</em>]SAT II: Didn’t Submit
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW
[<em>]Rank: 1/48
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): None</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Decent. I thought my “take a risk” essay was somewhat creative.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: The one I read was wonderful. I didn’t see the other.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Pretty good, but her commentary was pretty short.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Southwest Iowa, near Omaha, Nebraska
[</em>]High School Type: Small Catholic school
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Female</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:
Volleyball: Played for four years, varsity for two. Varsity co-captain during my senior
year, voted Most Improved Player during my senior year
Basketball: Played for one year, student manager for three years
Bowling: Varsity letters all four years
Tennis: Played for four years, three varsity letters
Track: Four varsity letters, alternate for the state meet during my sophomore year, qualified for state during my junior year
Softball: Four varsity letters, JV co-captain during my junior year (almost definitely varsity co-captain during my senior year), voted Most Improved Varsity Player during my junior year
National Honor Society: inducted sophomore year, president senior year
Battle of the Books: won state freshman year, placed sixth in state during sophomore year, state alternate junior year, team captain senior year
Math Club Competition Team: placed second freshman and junior years, first sophomore year
Science Bowl: three years, team captain during senior year
[</em>]Awards: fourth in the state in the National French Test freshman year, sixth in the state in the National French Test sophomore year, eleventh in the state in the National French Test junior year, Certificate of Merit from the Society of Women Engineers junior year
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: So happy I got in! As an added bonus, I got invited to Reilly Weekend![/ul]</p>

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<p>anyone accepted should join the facebook group University of Notre Dame Class of 2016!</p>

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<p>I don’t understand how you can possible play 6 sports all 4 years. Aren’t there only 3 seasons? Our kids aren’t allowed to play more than one sport per season.</p>

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<p>I go to a very small school. Our high school has only a little over 200 students, but we field many sports teams. If you count dance and cheerleading, we have 12 girls’ sports. Combine that with the fact that we don’t have many people participate (only six girls in my grade go out for sports other than cheerleading and dance team), it means that there will be many shared athletes. While our coaches get frustrated, the athletic director has told them that they have to deal with it because we would have to drop some sports if people weren’t allowed to do more than one in a season. The only rules we have are that girls must choose only one of volleyball, cross country, and swimming in the fall, girls may not do dance team and cheerleading in the same year, and girls need special permission to play three spring sports. Playing all four spring sports is not allowed. Things get difficult in the spring because of the overlap of practice times, but I just trade off days between track and tennis practices. While things do get tricky sometimes (we’ve had track meets where only 6 out of 13 girls were present because the others were at a tennis meet or soccer game), we have a system for doing things that ensures that multi-sport athletes give time to all sports that they participate in. Should we have this many sports at such a small school where less than half of the females even do one, let alone multiple, sports? Probably not, but there aren’t any coaches willing to give up their sport, and people would be really upset if a sport that their child really loved got dropped. And also, many people say that it is not a problem because we are very successful in most of the sports that we participate in.</p>

<p>As to your question about seasons, my school has four: fall, winter, spring and summer. I do volleyball in the fall season, basketball and bowling in winter, track and tennis in spring, and softball in summer. The most I ever do at once is two, which sometimes means that I have late nights, but it is definitely manageable.</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
•SAT: N/A
•SAT II: 770 Chemistry 800 Math 2
•ACT: 33
•GPA: 4.53/5.0
•Rank: Top 5%
•Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP: Chemistry: 5 Stats: 4 Econ(both micro and macro):4</p>

<p>Subjective
•Essays: Good (I wrote about the current problems in Egypt)
•Teacher Recs: Adequate if not good
•Counselor Rec: Good
•Supplementary Material: N/A
•Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): N/A</p>

<p>Personal
•Location: NE Ohio
•High School Type: Public
•Ethnicity: Egyptian
•Gender: Male</p>

<p>Other
•Extracurriculars: Volunteering (250+ hrs), NHS, Track and Field, various school clubs, youth group, 1 restaurant job
•Awards: AP Scholar with Honor, Principal’s List
•Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: Didn’t send
SAT II:740 Spanish, 690 US History
ACT: 30
GPA: 4.25 weighted, 3.65 unweighted
Rank: 150/3552 (my school ranks from district)
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 4 on AP US History, 3 on AP Euro, 3 on AP English and Composition, 4 on IB Chem SL, taking all IB classes this year
Essays: they were okay, kind of rushed. Definitely not my best
Teacher Recs: great!
Counselor Rec: Amazinggg!
Supplementary Material: nonrr
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
Location: Florida
High School Type: 2,200 person public high school with IB program
Ethnicity: hispanic
Gender:female
Other
Extracurriculars: Secretary of IB Relay for Life, Secretary of Interact Club, Member of Key Club, played soccer for 8 years, played piano for 7 years (go to local recitals), volunteer at local museum (77 hours), Homeless shelter (66 hours), and local organization (20 hours).
Awards: ap scholar, florida gold credential ready to work, national spanish honor society, national english honor society, national honor society
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Applying to this school was pretty much last minute (as in I decided to apply the week before), and it’s not my top choice, so I wasn’t so sad about the deferral. And I know the decisions came out more than two months ago, but oh well(:</p>

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<p>Hey congrats to the Accepted, best of luck to the Deferred, and I’m Sorry to the Rejected. After going through this thread quite a few times, I’ve seen that a lot of your guys are stunning applicants and will (if you haven’t already) get into quite a few good colleges.</p>

<p>But if you got in and are going on some sort of Spring Visitation, please join the Facebook group- “Notre Dame Spring Visitation 2012” any alums or people who went let last and can offer some wise words, please join, too~! [Log</a> In | Facebook](<a href=“http://www.facebook.com/groups/358486520849649/]Log”>http://www.facebook.com/groups/358486520849649/)</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2270
[</em>]SAT II: 780 Bio M, 800 US Hist
[<em>]ACT:–
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW
[<em>]Rank: top 5%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Euro 5, AP US 5, AP Bio 5</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: good
[<em>]Counselor Re: I think okay - don’t really know the counselor that well
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: out-of-state
[</em>]High School Type: large public
[<em>]Ethnicity: asian (I might be URM here??)
[</em>]Gender: girl</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: School Newspaper (editor), community service club 150+ (officer), foreign language NHS (VP), NHS, art club, creative writing club, amnesty international, yearbook club, tutor, piano, foreign language school
[</em>]Awards: National Merit Finalist, state science competition
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Write a good essay! If you can, you should write one over the summer so you won’t have to panic during the school year!! Weakness btw: no sports but you can make it up with leadership in other areas. Try really hard and make sure you can answer the supplement question of WHY NOTRE DAME!!!</p>

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<p>@bubblyperfection When did you find out?</p>

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<p>@chillyconcarney</p>

<p>I was accepted Early Action in mid-Dec. I just posted my stats though</p>

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<p>Bumping for RD Decisions (below this line)</p>

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<p>bump10char</p>