***OFFICIAL NOTRE DAME CLASS OF 2018 RD ACCEPTANCE THREAD***

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Notre Dame
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<p>Decision: Accepted!</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: not reported
SAT IIs: not reported
ACT: 33 (35E, 34M, 34S, 30R)
GPA: 3.96 UW and 4.53 W
Rank: Valedictorian (we had 14 valedictorians out of a class of 113)
Other stats:
Subjective: great EC’s (active involvement in The Outreach Program for Soccer, hospital volunteer, FSU College of Medicine Summer Institute Program, Eagle Scout, church lector, club and varsity soccer, youth ministry)
Essays: Common App essay was outstanding and my supplements were great and I was extremeley creative on the “do whatever” one, utilizing my passion and knowledege about Notre Dame, I went to basketball camp there when I was 12 and I follow all their sports teams
Teacher Recs: great
Counselor Rec: great
Hook (if any): none
Location/Person: domestic
State or Country: Florida
School Type: Catholic private
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: male
major strength/weakness: strengths: ACT, course rigor, Eagle Scout, weakness: white male
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I believe I was accepted because I stood out from other applicants with my essays
going to attend? most likely (yet to receive financial aid package)
Other Factors: took 12 AP classes over four years (11 A’s and 1 B)</p>

<p>Congrats to all those accepted! Hope to see you next Fall!</p>

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<p>My son in central Illinois has not received anything in the mail yet… Anyone else still waiting on a decision? </p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 2140 (710 R, 750 M, 680 W)
SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 690 US History
UW GPA: 3.91
Rank: 14/489
Other stats: 13 IB Classes (IB Diploma)</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Varsity football (3 years [played on freshman team in 9th grade]), Senior Class Vice-President, Link Crew, Athletes For Kids (community service organization), Guitar (for 11 years)
Essays/Teacher Recs: Hard to tell; I thought they were pretty good though
State or Country: Washington
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Major strength/weakness: Nothing stands out as outstanding nor do I think I have any glaring weaknesses
why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred: No awards, could have improved essays and SAT
Going to attend? Not my decision</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2230 (R 800, M 690, W 760)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780 US History (not submitted)
[<em>] ACT: 34 (R36, M 29, E 35, S 34)
[</em>] GPA: 3.95/4.27
[<em>] Rank: not reported
[</em>] Other stats:</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I really like my common app. Unlike other college essays I wrote, I liked reading it. It was the growing up one. I wrote about an academic subject I loved: liberation theology; I did why Notre Dame: why I wanted to be in a specific major, and try something different: talked about integrity in the college admissions process. I suppose they were good, only my parents read them so I’m not really sure.
[</em>] Activities: Varsity captain, exec board of several service and social justice groups, very involved in service: in high school, community, and parish. Pianist and percussionist.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: I think good, it was my junior Brit lit teacher and she liked me
[</em>] Counselor Rec: good I guess
[li] Hook (if any): none- opposite of a hook- white, catholic, from Chicago </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Illinois
[</em>] School Type: private
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] major strength/weakness: I think that I talked about theology and I had the right test scores
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred:
[li] going to attend? Not sure, I like the school but it’s super expensive which is a concern when I got scholarship offers from other places. [/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Other Factors:</p>

<p>Really excited to be accepted, I was pretty worried about it!!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:
•SAT (breakdown): NA
ACT : 32
•Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 at least but my school doesn’t do GPAs
•Rank: top 10%
AP: 4 on Calc AB and English.
•Senior Year Course Load: Honors English, Church History, Christian Lifestyles, Honors College Biology, Honors German IV, Honors Government, Honors Economics, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, online Health.
Summer Activities: Harvard’s Secondary Program (took Calc II and Psychology), played soccer in England and Wales, People2People in Greece and Italy</p>

<p>Subjective:
•Extracurricular: Varsity Soccer since 9th grade, President of Science Club, Dead Poet Society, National German Society, National Art Society, German Club
•Volunteer/Community Service: A lot. Won Presidential Volunteer Award thing, Multiple mission trips to various places.
•Essays: Honestly, I think they were pretty good. One of them could certainly have been improved though.
•Teacher Recommendations: Probably really good
•Counselor Rec: probably also relatively good</p>

<p>Other
•State : Kansas
•School Type: Private, Catholic
•Ethnicity: Asian, Native American, White
•Gender: Female
•Income Bracket: zero chance at receiving financial aid
•Hooks: None</p>

<p>Reflection
•Strengths: ethnicity, grades, mathematics
•Weaknesses: ACT?
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected.: probably because I’m partially NA and am in DiffEq and Linear Algebra, plus have won 5A State for soccer every year so far</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted
Stats:[ /b][ list]
[<em>] SAT: ACT- 34
[</em>] GPA: 3.98 UW, 4.27 W
[li] Rank: 9/440</p>[/li]
<p>[/list][ b]Subjective:[ list]
[<em>] Essays: I thought they were pretty good, I doubt they really stood out though
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Didn’t see them, but I’d think they were good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Pretty good, didn’t know her that well though
[</em>] Hook (if any): None
Don’t see a place for ECs but I was a 2 year captain and All-Conference for my school, and a 3 year captain for another soccer team. I also did a lot of volunteering and a few other things
[/list]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Minnesota
[</em>] School Type: Public, good school
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: ACT, GPA, no real weaknesses
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: ^
[li] going to attend? Most likely will go to ND![/li][/ul][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
Sorry, I doubt the format on this will be right.</p>

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<p>I guess those applicants that were accepted with lower test and GPA scores were atheletes or had a connection</p>

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<p>[size=+1]**Decision: Accepted **[ /size]</p>

<p>[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):2210 (R: 680 M: 740 W: 790)
[</em>] ACT: 35 (36 English, 35 Math, 35 Reading, 35 Science, Writing 10)
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math 2
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91/4
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (4) Calc BC (5) English Comp (5) APUSH (5) Physics B (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc III, AP Gov, AP Stats, AP Themes, AP Macro, AP Chem, AP Psych
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/list]Subjective:

[ul] Commended Nat. Merit, AP Scholar, 3rd National FBLA Banking and Financial Systems
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): President of community service club, Varsity/Captain Track and Cross country grades 11/12, JV swim team and water polo frosh/soph, National Honor Society, P.E. Pool Leader
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Summer Cancer Research Internship at Northwestern Medical School
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Mexico mission trip
[<em>] Summer Activities: AFS Intercultural Program to Malaga, Spain
[</em>] Essays: Supplement and Common App were really great (I know I sound like most people when I say this but they were really good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Bio and Math were probably good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably good
[<em>] Additional Rec: Research Professor. I will never find out what he wrote because he jumped off a building and killed himself in October. RIP
[</em>] Interview:[/ul]Other

[ul] No interview
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA USA USA
[<em>] School Type: large public suburban competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: ORM
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>]Income Bracket: 100k+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul]Reflection

[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: can do twenty pushups without getting tired
[<em>] Weaknesses: mayonnaise
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: probably for smoking #pot on NYE back in 2008
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/ul]General Comments: Accepted: Vanderbilt, Umichigan (probably going here), U of I, Madison Wisconsin, Notre Dame[/li]Waitlisted: Johns Hopkins BME, Blue Mountain State, South Harmon Institute of Technology
REJECTED: Upenn, Duke, Harvard, Stanford</p>

<p>Some ragrets. If I were to do HS over again I would have joined XC and Track earlier and treated it more seriously. I did one of these because these really helped me out when I was applying.
Another thing: I applied last minute to every school while I was sipping drank in Mexico on Winter Vacation. Might have something to do with outcome.</p>

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<p>ACCEPTED!!!</p>

<p>SAT: N/A
SAT IIs: N/A
GPA: 4.58 weighted/ 3.92 unweighted
Rank: 2/76
Other stats: 26 ACT 26E/27M/26R/24S</p>

<p>State or Country: Illinois
School Type: Public Charter School
Ethnicity: Nigerian American
Gender: Female</p>

<p>Accepted: Northwestern, University of Notre Dame, Grinnell College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Saint Louis University, and Drexel University
Rejected: Wash U (ED), Yale, Dartmouth</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Student council (Junior class President and Senior class President)
Forensics/Speech/Drama (peer coach, morning announcements anchor, event captain)
FBLA (Vice President)
Interact Club
National Honor Society
Teen Group member at church</p>

<p>Hook: I’m not sure… I know my essays were good. I talked about one of my extracurriculars, the collage application process and why I wanted to go to Notre Dame. My common app essay focused on my culture and how that influenced my desire for education. I also think my recommenders spoke to who I was as a person and not just academics. I never got to read any…</p>

<p>Strengths: leadership, GPA, extracurriculars, essays, recommendations
Weakness: ACT score</p>

<p>P.S. I didn’t have a “connect” at the University of Notre Dame as some may think. Schools don’t always look at a test score to determine whether someone gets admitted or not. I conveyed who I was through my application and they overlooked my “low” score.</p>

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<p>(Posting this belatedly in case it’s useful for future applicants)</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>SAT: 1930
SAT IIs: N/A
ACT: 26
GPA: 4.3 weighted; 3.9 unweighted
Rank: 1/64
Other stats: N/A</p>

<p>State or Country: Massachusetts
School Type: Private Catholic
Ethnicity: Italian-American
Gender: Male </p>

<p>Accepted: Fairfield Univeristy, UMass Lowell and Amherst, St. Michael’s College
Rejected: N/A</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Student Ambassador
Member of the NHS
Community service leader
Environmental action team </p>

<p>Income bracket: Less than 60k </p>

<p>Hook: Aside from building various University connections throughout high school, I suppose being the first member of my family to go to college was sort of interesting. I reflected upon this – and my constant struggle with sexual orientation – in my essays; which weren’t particularly well-written, but offered (I think) good insight into my life. </p>

<p>Strengths: Class rank and essays
Weakness: Lack of legacy and voiced uncertainty about my desire to attend college</p>