<p>Less than a month to go until notification! There needs to be an official EA stress-out thread.</p>
<p>Who's in? :)</p>
<p>yes please!</p>
<p>Me too!!! <em>bites nails</em></p>
<p>This is so surreal.
I APPLIED TO COLLEGE
HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!</p>
<p>Don’t remind me…</p>
<p>good luck everyone! ND has been my dream school for as long as I can remember, so I’m extremely nervous</p>
<p>^^ I know just how you feel… It still hasn’t sunk in that in around a month we get a reply</p>
<p>I graduated from ND back in the '80’s and now my son has applied EA. I’m so excited for him and for you all. ND is an amazing place!</p>
<p>I am in. My S applied and we are anxiously awaiting…but not getting our hopes up too high.</p>
<p>have you all gotten the email about student life that they say they’ll be sending monthly? my daughter got it and it said, “if you choose to go to Notre Dame…” I’m sure it’s one of those marketing things. Hard to know how to take it. Everyone’s so anxious.</p>
<p>Yep, we got it. We even got a personal phone call that said “Notre Dame”…but it was from ND de namur!! We managed to have a heart attack then laugh about it.</p>
<p>We got the email too; cannot help but wonder if ND realizes that this sentence really implies that ND has given you the choice to come!!! Thank you for starting this thread; will enjoy waiting with all of you these next couple of weeks!!</p>
<p>We got it, too. They probably didn’t realize the implication, especially if the mailings are written by current students, as they claim.</p>
<p>way too much at stake here for an institution of higher learning to not understand what they are writing… when this is all over, I am going to write to admissions and suggest an overhaul. </p>
<p>Til then, we all wait.</p>
<p>I agree. From what we’ve heard, that email was sent to ALL applicants. Interesting choice for ND…even if students wrote all that, wouldn’t it be looked over by the admissions office? At this point in time, it will cause some negative reactions in a few weeks, to say the least.</p>
<p>I didn’t read it that way at all. I don’t think everyone seriously believes that Notre Dame is sending out acceptance “hints” through e-mail.</p>
<p>I agree with Klinks. I received the same email but it was on a different email account then the one i used in my application. I believe it is just one of those emails they send to everyone who at one point requested info electronically.</p>
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Same for me. No email to my application email account, but that email went to my normal one. Though I never even requested information electronically, so maybe they linked the information they had with one email address to the other, I don’t know. Didn’t take it to mean anything more than them wanting people to be interested.</p>
<p>The point is not that anyone believes the ND is sending “acceptance hints”. The point is that a straightforward reading of that phrase implies that the recipient of the email has a choice to attend ND. There is no other way to construe that phrase.</p>
<p>Unless you have been accepted, you do not have that choice. So, either ND sent an email to accepted students, which we would all agree is not likely, or they sent an email that is not properly drafted. </p>
<p>I guess, if you are a big fan of ND, you don’t want to admit that the latter could be true and that the Irish made a mistake.</p>
<p>I didn’t see it like that at first reading, but now that you mention it, I suppose it could be seen that way, though they obviously didn’t intend it that way. Thus, they should have worded it a bit differently (“If you end up at Notre Dame…”).</p>
<p>But look at the whole sentence: “If you choose to come to Notre Dame, you are becoming a part of a family.”</p>
<p>“You” does not necessarily pertain entirely to every applicant, but rather as a general noun such as “one”. If I said, “What happens if you press the button?” I am not asking what happens if the individual being addressed touches the button, but if any individual, or “one”, touches the button. Thus, it could say “If someone chooses to come to Notre Dame, they become a part of a family.” However, the English language is still in the dubious transition of making “they” a pronoun with a singular option, to combat perceived gender bias. Thus, academics are often uncomfortable with or downright opposed to using it as such. “One” doesn’t make the sentence flow as well as “you”. </p>
<p>In a way, it is just true, though you have to account for the fact that you can only make that choice if you are accepted. It could be a shortened version of “If you are accepted and choose to come”, because it is obvious that for one to be able to choose to come, they would have to have been accepted, assuming we are using “come” as “attend as a student”, which is implicit in the sentence.</p>
<p>Therefore, I think we can agree that the email isn’t a big deal.</p>