<p>26? no legacy? you must be an incredible writer, congratulations!!! did you show interest any other way or do anything else you might classify as "different" to help get you in?</p>
<p>Thank you! I really don't have a clue! Maybe coming from such a small place? Maybe because of trying to walk on for varsity soccer? An admissions person came to visit our school here in the boondocks.
It would be nice to think it was the writing but maybe it was more what was written about than the style.<br>
I hope this gives others hope that they have a chance as well.<br>
I only knew that if it happened it would be because God wanted it to happen.</p>
<p>Tracker - true congratulations to you ... It's so refreshing that you are so humble re: your acceptance...that you want to give others the hope that it could happen to them as well - - and that you believe it's "because God wanted it to happen". Yes, that's true, but obviously Notre Dame saw you as a valuable addition to their institution. You played soccer on the boys' team since there was no girls' team... You traveled 4 hours 3x a week to play soccer... you did many hours of community service although not required by your school. Yes, definitely thank God, but also pat yourself on the back. Congratulations.</p>
<p>Thanks Marie! Didn't think of it that way. Do you go to BC? We had an old priest retire out here from there. He was awesome! We cried for days when he died.
Hoping that Notre Dame is the place to grow in many ways.</p>
<p>Tracker congratulations! Your ECs and Essays must have put you over the top.... the Native American prob helped a lot too!</p>
<p>Congratulations..... you give me hope!</p>
<p>Thanks! I did think about the Native American but my oldest brother was waitlisted for ND Law school, his undergrad grades were excellent and it didn't help him. He went elsewhere, graduated law school a semester early, passed the bar and gets sworn in this month.
It's still hard to believe I got in! But I'm so excited! :)</p>
<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED *</p>
<p>**Stats:[ /b][ list]
[<em>] SAT:2290
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 US, 770 Math Level 2, 770 World History
[<em>] GPA: 3.8 UW, 4.1 W
[</em>] Rank: top 5%, schooll doesn't rank
[<em>] Other stats: Team Captain, Class Secretary
[/list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[</em>] Essays: Pretty good, wrote about wanting to become a doctor and how notre dame would help me succeed in that
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: good
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[</em>] State or Country: NY
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness:
[<em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Good grades/ sat's captain, no faults
[</em>] going to attend? Possibly.. probably not, between ND and BC</p>
<p>I give up trying to figure out the whole formatting thing...</p>