<p>I was just wondering if anyone had applied to Notre Dame for the Summer Leadership Seminar on Global Issues? What were your ACT, PSAT, GPA, and Community Service and Leadership positions? Was the experience worth it?</p>
<p>I have a 3.9 unweighted GPA, a 32 on my ACT, a 205 on my PSAT, I have over 270 hours of service, I was born and lived in a foreign country for two thirds of my life, and I am Vice-President of the Student Body at my school along three other leadership positions. Do you think that I have a good chance? I know someone who could write a really good recommendation for me to get in, and I am a decent essay-writer. Thank you very much!</p>
<p>I applied too with strangely nearly identical statistics as you… I am also curious about chances of getting in? I have close to 600 service hours and have had multiple leadership positions in high school</p>
<p>DS attended GIS two summers ago. He is now a freshman @ ND. The GIS is an outstanding program. DS said the professors were great, the counselors were fun and he has remained friends with many of the other kids that he met in the program. In fact, many of them are now attending ND!</p>
<p>As you are probably well aware, the program is highly selective but your statistics are strong. Make sure your essays are well written and demonstrate your knowledge of global issues. I can’t tell you much more. My son was thrilled to be admitted from the midwest. He attended with kids from all over the US as well as many foreign countries.
Good luck to both of you. If you are admitted; attended! I promise you will not regret it.
Go Irish!</p>
<p>I am also wondering if it is harder to get into the program if you are a certain ethnicity? also, does anyone know how to express certain extracurricular that don’t fall into the categories provided by Notre Dame?</p>
I have a 31 ACT, a 192 PSAT and have ECs, especially leadership, coming out of my ears along with a hefty amount of Volunteer time. Does the fact that I am from Alabama do anything for me in the Geographical Diversity category and are my test scores too low?
I attended the leadership seminars this past summer, specifically GIS. We were told that the essays are what helped them ultimately decide who was accepted and who was not.
This program is basically academic recruiting for the university because most if not all of the participants are guaranteed admissions, save a criminal offense.
But don’t be discouraged if you don’t get accepted, my friend was rejected from the program and accepted to the university.
Finally, the experience is definitely worth it because you meet great professors and really get to know Notre Dame. And your peers are unmatched; I now know kids going to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Stanford, etc. You get the idea…
I also attended the Leadership Seminar this past summer, but I was in Science, not GIS. What I will say is based on my experience in the Science, Ethics, and Responsibility program, but it should prove to be general about all three programs.
I absolutely LOVED my the program. (I did want to go to Notre Dame beforehand, so maybe that influenced my enjoyment, but everyone I met loved the program, too.) It is definitely academic recruiting; they make it clear that they want you to attend (I am not aware of anyone accepted into the program that was not accepted into ND through EA, myself included, provided that they applied). And of those who didn’t apply to ND, like the above poster said, they have been accepted into Princeton, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Dartmouth, UChicago, and many other prestigious schools.
I would agree that the essays are very important. I did not ask everyone about their test scores, GPA, class rank, etc., but everyone that I did talk to received a 34+ ACT and very high SAT (don’t remember exact numbers) as well as AP credits, great if not perfect GPA, etc. Personally, I had a 35 ACT and 4.0 GPA/1st in class, but only a 189 PSAT and no AP credits. I do not remember if it went on the application, but I also had about 75 service hours and good (but not great) ECs.
Ultimately, I say definitely apply. I was not expecting to be accepted, but it turned into a completely unforgettable experience.