<p>Does Notre Dame have certain required courses? (e.g. Foreign Language, writing, religious related course...)</p>
<p>Secondly, does anyone know anything about the pre-med preparation at Notre Dame? How strong is the science department (in comparison to schools like Georgetown, cornell, brown, dartmouth, and upenn). How successful is the admissions of students to med school? Does Notre Dame have an early decision program for its ugrads into med school, where they don't have to take the MCATs (like at schools like Georgetown)?</p>
<p>Thirdly, (just wondering but) how is the financial aid at Notre Dame? Generous? Not generous?</p>
<p>i dont know any of these answers off the top of my head, but i'm sure you can find required courses (if any) on their website. as for financial aid, collegeboard.com has the avg financial aid reward and percent of students receiving aid for every college in the country. so you can compare nd to the others. financial aid however can be like tax codes and is graduated and varied different ways depending on your income bracket and depending on school. so its a case by case kind of thing. good luck</p>
<p>A friend of mine, an ND grad and physician, said you kind of have to blow off their attempts to get you to quit pre-med and just keep working. He knew a lot of students there who kept at it and are M.D.s now, but all were kind of pressured to drop.</p>
<p>i just got back from their spring visitation weekend yesterday. i wasn't even considering notre dame before spring vis.. but i learned a lot about the school.. and now it's one of my choices. </p>
<p>all students are required to take 2 semesters of theology, 2 semesters of philosophy, and a semester of gym (lol, mental AND physical fitness) .. </p>
<p>they're building another science building, which will be ready may of next year.. that's pretty cool i think.. </p>
<p>i heard from a lot of students that they were pre-med but changed after freshman year, because they realized it was too hard.. they have programs such as business-premed, etc. which is kinda nice. one of the few schools i've seen that has a particle accelerator (if you're into physics) ..</p>
<p>i don't think a 75% acceptance rate is anywhere near feasible. however, supposedly 75% of the students who go to spring visitation end up going to the school.. </p>
<p>princeton review says it's 30% for acceptance rate and 57% yield.. im assuming this was last year's.</p>
<p>Im a junior and I really want to go to notre dame. Im also thinking that i want to do premed. Why did notre dame pressure people to quit premed?</p>
<p>they don't "pressure" people to quit premed. in general, premed is a difficult track.. people quit because they can't handle the courseload or lose interest.</p>