He’ll love ND! Lots of students skateboard to class! I used mine as a desk in one of my classes this past fall since we were moved to an auditorium due to covid! Congratulations and Go Irish!
Thank you so much. It can be hard to accept a new path but I really do feel like everything happens for a reason. Good to hear it went well for your daughter!!
Thank you for the response I am very grateful for the opportunity and will definitely consider it.
I re-read my response to you and it sounded a little judgmental. I did not intend to come off that way. If Notre Dame is truly in your heart, you now have a path to get there. I think that is wonderful! Often in life, something that initially disappoints ends up being better than expected. The decision is yours – and that’s a great option to have. Whatever you decide, I wish you the best.
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Accepted!!!
Gender: Male
State: VA (Not NOVA)
Major: Economics
School Type: Average Midsize Suburban School
Race/ethnicity: White
Income bracket: upper class
SAT I (breakdown): 1450 (720 EBRW, 730M)
SAT II: None
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Weighted GPA: 4.22
Rank: 9/260
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Human (5) AP Lang (4) AP Micro (5)
Junior Year Course Load; APUSH, AP LANG, AP Physics 1, AP Latin, AP Micro and Macro, Calculus, Latin 4
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Comp Gov, AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, APES
Considered the most rigorous course load possible
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
FBLA national champion in finance related event (2019)
1st place in state economic challenge (2019)
15th place in national economic challenge (2019)
4th place international stock pitch competition
State baseball championship (2019)-not sure if this really counts lol
Other various economic and FBLA regional awards
Extracurricular:
Colonial Marching Band (7th-Current) Highly selective program that admits kids while they are beginning middle school and trains them to play an instrument. I have public performances three times a week (10-12 Hours a week year around.)
Golf Team (9th-current, will be team captain this year)
FBLA(9th-present, president since Junior year)
Economics Club (President and Founder, 10th-present)
Statistician/Manager for school’s baseball team (10th-present)
Math Honor’s Society (11th)
Latin Honor’s Society (11th)
Club that helps freshman get acclimated to the school (10th-current)
LORS:
- APUSH Teacher: 8-9/10, I excelled in his class and we have a really good relationship.
So excited to join the Irish Family!!
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My son is not a legacy and got accepted.
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What HS? I’m from NDame in Lawrence NJ.
I had posted above that son got accepted. Question regarding legacy. Technically he isn’t a legacy, but his grandfather DID graduate from ND as well as I (mom) went to Saint Mary’s. Doesn’t “count” per se, but lots of other family members like cousins, uncles etc. went there. So it was worked into his application. But there are far more applicants without any legacy ties than with them and so many not accepted with siblings and parents legacy. As I have been told by many a college counselor, each school is “completing a puzzle”. You may be a perfect piece to that puzzle, but they may already have that piece. So many really qualified applicants are denied. In our visit to Vanderbilt, the admissions counselor was very real about all this and said that why would be turning down amazing applicants who would no doubt be very successful there and it would be THEIR loss. Sheer numbers game however.
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hi guys! this is my first time using this platform so hopefully i’m doing it right. i got into notre dame early action just like a lot of you; i’ll drop my stats below.
act: 34
gpa: 4.202
all a’s, only had one a- in first semester ap lit junior year
8 ap classes (i’ve taken all but one of the ap classes my school offers)
4 years varsity lacrosse, varsity captain 2 years
girl scout gold award (100 hour service project)
coach of an all girls robotics team (volunteer)
lacrosse coach (volunteer)
nhs
rho kappa
math team
youth and government
lifeguard and certified lifeguard instructor (paid)
not a legacy
i plan on majoring in economics with a minor in spanish. ultimately, i’d like to go into corporate law.
i’d love to meet other people who got in and possibly plan on attending! notre dame was definitely my number one school so i think i’ll end up there. my snapchat is alliecat1428, i’m excited to talk to people!! ps sorry this was so long.
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I am a current ND student and have several friends who are in gateway, the Holy Cross 5 year engineering program or St Mary’s. Each campus has their appeal but they are all tied to Notre Dame. There is a bus that runs between the three campuses or you can walk between the campuses in about 15 minutes. You still go to the games, eat in the dining halls, join the clubs and organizations. Plus you will have your select ND classes. Another benefit is you get A financial aid offer from ND, at ND proved that are used towards the lower tuition costs of Holy Cross. Gateway is a great program and your end game of having a degree from Notre Dame will still happen. Good luck in your decision!
also forgot to mention i did summer scholars on the world politics and power track
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Daughter Accepted into Mendoza Business School!
Public School in VA
ACT: 34
Weighted GPA: 4.36 (school doesn’t use unweighted, but it would be ~3.96)
13 APs + 1 DE
Rank (just outside of the the top 10%)
Varsity Cheer (competition)
A lot of community service and leadership in school clubs (mostly STEM and business related)
ROTC College Scholarship recipient
Legacy
Best of luck to the deferred applicants! And congratulations to all those who were accepted tonight!
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D21 Deferred. We are legacy. 4.44 GPA and TO. Hispanic. Bummed but happy it was not a rejection.
Daughter accepted today REA and is neither legacy nor athlete. She also was accepted at Georgetown REA.
McCombs is ranked in the top 5 in undergraduate business. Congratulations on being accepted as an OOS student. That is impressive.
So sorry.
No, she’s just very traditional and wants me to receive the news just like she did. 
Yeah…You might want to rethink that. Most schools notify via the portal now. For acceptances you’ll eventually get something in the mail but not for rejections. So you’ll be waiting and waiting and wondering if you didn’t get in or if your acceptance is just taking a long time. Plus, schools sometimes follow up the portal decision with an email so you’ll likely see that at some anyway.
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So, did you check anyway? : Wishing you all good things. But yeah as a mom (again), take mom out for some coffee and look at the portal together. Us moms get crazy during this time. I wanted to check SO badly the portal with my son at 5:42 but asked him what he preferred. He preferred to be alone and process and I understand that completely. We were fortunate that he was accepted but it was his news to get in the way in which he wanted to receive it. Good luck to you.
Gosh I am so sorry. I understand that feeling so well with a rejection from my oldest from her dream school. It was like someone died in our house that day. But we dusted off and she actually ended up attending that school. So a rejection right now is not a rejection forever if that is your ultimate goal. It just isn’t the right timing for you for whatever reason that we can’t understand. I truly believe in things aligning at the right time and much as a 2 year old does not understand that they can’t eat a cookie for dinner (and no explaining it to them will help), we don’t always understand why things happen and don’t happen. Chin up. Remember that a rejection is just one blip in time by one or two people who were looking for something else right then. It is not a judgement on your worth or ability. (((Hugs)))