Diversity can mean many things, not necessarily just religion of course. I just wouldn’t say to @FirstGenLife that it’s a “fact” that being non-Christian won’t put one’s application at a disadvantage. We don’t know that for a fact.
We do know that religion is considered on the CDS and 80% of the current freshman class is Catholic…
@sushiritto are you a student, past student, parent, applicant, faculty member?
@sushiritto Please consider that “religion considered” does not translate into “Catholics preferred”. One important aspect of diversity, at Notre Dame and otherwise, is that it requires serious action: one such example is Questbridge, a successful program for socioeconomically disadvantaged students. A comparable approach applies to fostering religious diversity on campus. Frankly, everything being equal, I would take my chances applying to Notre Dame being non-Catholic/non-Christian, i.e. Hindu, Budhist etc.
@HM0527 I’m a parent.
@hpcsa you’re not understanding what I’m trying to say.
We don’t know for fact, as you said, that being a non-Christian puts a prospective student in a disadvantageous admissions position or not. We simply don’t know that for a fact.
I disagreed with your point. And according to CC’s ToS, CC is not a debate society, so I made my point and I’m moving on.
“Although it might of been corrected, my daughter (sophomore) was able to find out her acceptance about 20 minutes prior to her email by going to the Accepted Students page and entering her portal info ( I do not know exactly what she entered) and it activity linked to An Accepted Students page asking her to accepted admittance. I believe this page / link was active about 20 minutes prior to acceptances going out via email. This was 2 years ago so it may of been corrected. Again, I am not exactly sure what link she went to.”
This was the “back door” web page that gave you like an 30-90 minutes advance notice that you’d probably been accepted. Who knows if ND will have fixed/changed this by the time decisions come out.
This web page is where accepted kids will eventually go to accept or decline the spot. So ND would upload the accepted kids info to this site a little earlier on the day that the decisions get released. So that admitted kids (if they wanted to) could immediately accept their spot after official notification. So if you could get this site to ask you “will you enroll at ND?” then in most cases you’d be getting the official admit news 30-90 minutes later.
Feel free to drive yourself to distraction with this for the next 2-5 days.
Best practice on this, imo, is to just forget about trying to tea leaf read and decipher all this stuff. On the day (whenever the day finally comes unannounced) the kid will get an email between 7-7:30 ET saying decisions are available. Then go look.
Good luck.
I think @sushiritto’s point is well-taken. I don’t think not being Catholic or Christian puts you at a disadvantage, but ND certainly has an interest in maintaining its Catholic identity. After all, it’s a Catholic school.
That being said, neither of my children are Catholic and honestly I don’t know if they even identify (or identified in their apps) as Christian so it certainly doesn’t hurt an applicant if the other stuff that ND is looking for is there.
I’m so nervous! I didn’t mention much of my community service in my application and my ACT is only a 32. My “Why ND” essay was about the dorm life, but I did not really connect it to a larger idea besides the fact that I want to be a part of a tight knit community for four years.
Regardless, it’s been a real good time watching this thread. I kind of hope that decisions are released on Friday so that I can deal with my decision over the weekend and not have to go to school the next day.
Best of luck to everyone, and as Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line sing, “If it’s meant to be, it’ll be (it’ll be)/ baby just let it be”
GO IRISH!
@mollymg01 my D also has a 32. Which is an excellent score. You should be proud. The very best of luck to you especially since you’re quoting FGL ?
Thanks for your kind words! Best of luck to your daughter! Fingers crossed that next year we’ll be classmates 
Good luck!
Just spoke to my counselor. He said decisions will be released Friday at the earliest.
@Nm1515 from your counselors lips to God’s ears
@nm1515 Friday would be a break from their tradition. Last year they notified on the Wed of finals week. Tomorrow at 18:42 Eastern is my best guess and would line up with the date from the last two years. We are in Colorado so we will check the portal at 4:42 Mountain time Wednesday. If it isn’t out on the portal at that exact time (emails come later in the evening) you can move on with your night. They always release at that exact time for all admissions decisions. It won’t be early, it won’t be late. Good luck everyone. Our daughter is a Junior there and has the most amazing friends and has loved her experience. I was denied when I applied, and I went on to have a happy life attending Illinois even though I cried about not getting ND. Everything works out. Admissions decision makers have never met you, your value is NOT defined by this decision. You will find your place in the world, there are many paths to happiness and success.
The earliest it will be is Friday. Notre Dame is not informing school counselors about decisions until Friday, meaning we won’t know before then
Also hearing “Friday” from my school counselor in NY.
I have set a Twitter “alert” for when @ndadmissions if/when ND sends out a message re: decisions
Does Notre Dame inform counselors at every high school where a student applied REA to Notre Dame, or is this something done for traditional feeder high schools only? @somanychoices69, I love what you posted!
@katrina1 Last admission cycle Notre Dame admitted 3,608 students hailing from 1,358 high schools. I know this is only an indirect answer to your question, @katrina1. Students do not gain any advance knowledge on their individual admission status either way, as commented above in response to @HM0527’s earlier question.
@hpsa, That does answer my question! Notre Dame must be contacting the feeder high schools only!
Would Notre Dame Admissions be calling all these schools on the last day before Christmas break? I don’t know. I was on CC last year around this time waiting for my other son to hear from Notre Dame. People were posting all sorts of “inside information” which never panned out. Maybe I just don’t want to wait until Friday…so I’m still hoping for tomorrow night.