<p>Sorry to everyone probably not gonna get off the waitlist. I was rejected RD after it being my dream since forever & I was crushed for days. It sucks, yeah, but there are other great schools out there and there is always the transferring into after a year. </p>
<p>If you do plan to transfer like me, be sure to do your research. You HAVE to take the classes the normal ND students would take in their first year of they won’t let you in. I have heard of 4.0 kids not getting in bc they didnt take the classes. </p>
<p>So if your serious, you have to decide soon so you can pick you classes & send them to ND transfer to make sure they are okay. Would suck if come this time next year, after you worked your a** off, if you couldn’t get in bc you didnt take the right 2 math classes.</p>
<p>Hopefully you all have an awesome experience next year & even if you are planning to transfer, like me, make the most out of your next year. You may end up making the best friends and have the best year and say, “as much as I love ND, I feel comfortable here and want to spend my next 4 at X University”.</p>
<p>santaababyyy and mtoad527 in particular, let me provide some advice and encouragement from my own experience. Many years ago, ND was also my top choice and it was hard to imagine attending any other school. Unfortunately for me, the public school district in my town decided to strike my senior year. Although I attended a private high school, a portion of its staff was provided by the public school district, including the college advising staff. Since the college advising office was not available due to the strike, the main school office picked up the task of manually mailing the application materials (obviously before online) in addition to their other countless tasks. Needless to say, my application was either not sent/lost and was never received. By the time we discovered the problem, the EA window was closed and I ended up being waitlisted. Who knows whether I would have been accepted for EA, but the thought of how I was screwed was painful. </p>
<p>I attended Marquette and never once regretted it. I even ended up meeting my future wife several years after graduation through my former Marquette roommate. My D just finished her freshman year at Marquette she started off being timid and unsure of the decision, but now loves the school and has thrived there. </p>
<p>For most of you on the waitlist, this is probably the first major disappointment that has left many of you questioning your future. Life will present more choices and disappointments/rejections. Spend some time to mourn the loss, but whatever you do, accept it and move on. </p>
<p>As a footnote, I occasionally drive the Indiana Tollroad and can sometimes catch a glimpse of the golden dome. After a microsecond of what if, I have no regrets. If you dont attend ND, accept the decision and go down the other fork in the road. It will prepare you to better accept all that youll encounter in the future.</p>
<p>Excellent advice technowildcat! I heartily agree.</p>
<p>I have been watching these threads because my son was wait-listed and being the curious sort, I wanted to watch how this would all play out. I recognize how disappointing this is for all of you, especially if you’ve had your heart set on Notre Dame. Its a special place no doubt. However, its just one special place and there are many others out there.</p>
<p>I am quite proud of how my son handled being wait-listed. After the initial disappointment, he began to focus on his next choice which is also Marquette University. Today he is excited and ready to go in August. Notre Dame is nothing more than a memory. He has discovered a number of advantages Marquette has that Notre Dame does not and has identified a number of student groups he would like to participate in. He has also suggested starting a new group or two in areas of interest to him. He has embraced Marquette as his school.</p>
<p>I would like to add this piece of advice to what technowildcat said… Take a week or two to vent, be mad, complain, cry, etc. just decompress. Then, with an open mind and heart, get online and search for the student forums for the school you will be attending whether its on this site or Facebook or wherever. Begin to interact with the other students on those forums who will be your classmates for next year. You will see their excitement and you will start to recognize a lot of them over a few days and weeks and you may even develop some friendships before school starts. More importantly their excitement will rub off on you and soon you too will start to have a more positive outlook about where you will be going. Its infectious!</p>
<p>I know life just gave you a big lemon - but now go make lemonade!</p>
<p>I know this is off-topic for this thread, but I saw some of your posts on the MU discussion group and was wondering if you accepted a spot in the Honors program and if you’re planning on living in Straz? Just curious, my son is in Honors and has selected Straz. Send me a private message if you want to meet some new classmates already - he and 10-12 of his high school classmates are going to MU.</p>
<p>ajax1983 and technowildcat…
i cannot tell you how much i appreciate your advice and optimism. I will certainly begin to hold my chin up and be excited for school next fall. Hopefully, I can make Fordham MY school and embrace like you say because I would hate to go for a year and not enjoy the time spent there. I also appreciate your transferring advice, so I can make sure my classes align with ND’s curriculum. Thanks again for the motivation and encouragement; good luck to you and your families!</p>
<p>Thank you all so much for your words of encouragement… I know that I will end up being fine wherever I am, but I truly feel as though a part of myself will always remain attached to ND…and I was not raised in a die hard notre dame family! I truly did just fall in love with the school while I was visiting a friend of mine. That said, I also understand that what’s done is done for now and that it is important for me to go into Marquette with an open mins and outlook. I intend on taking all of you up on your advice to aquaint myself with my new classmates and the school itself too… Again, thanks.</p>
<p>mtoad, keep your head up and until you get that letter from ND saying that they have taken their class don’t give up hope just yet. I know how you feel but it will get better. In 2009, my son applied to ND, he was a third generation legacy, very well qualified, had 7 members of his family attend ND and was WL and eventually denied. For as long as we can remember he talked about attending ND, it was the motivation behind all his hard work in school. He had great options and we told him to start envisioning himself at another school while he sat on the WL. He took our advice. I know it stung for a long time and he said that he would probably apply to ND again as a transfer. My advice to him was to keep that option open if he wanted but that if he went to his new school with that mind set then he would deprive himself of a complete first year experience at his second choice. Well, I am happy to say that he absolutely loved his “second choice” and when he came home at Christmas his first year, we asked him if a transfer was still a consideration. He laughed and said absolutely not, he loved where he was. He will be a junior come fall and he has said recently that he truly believes that he is where he was meant to be. He has made wonderful friends and is very, very happy. But, he gave it a chance and put ND out of his head. He still loves ND. He is as much a fan of the school and the football team as he was way back when he applied. He has come to realize that ND is just one of many wonderful schools out there and each one offers its students a unique and excellent educational experience. You just have to be willing to be open minded. It is hard not to take the rejection personally but you are obviously a bright and well qualified student. Go and be an asset to the school that wanted you…you may discover that you want them too, you just don’t know it yet. Best of luck.</p>
<p>It appears that the University is releasing their waiting list based on the letter - record acceptances from those that were admitted. Best wishes to everyone - we won’t be there this fall!</p>
<p>My son received his letter today too. It basically says that they are not going to their wait-list at all and are essentially closing it - releasing every one from it. They had a higher than expected commit rate from those that were accepted back in March and do not need to take anyone from the wait-list. The class of 2015 is full.</p>
<p>Thank you irishmary203!! It is really amazing what two or three days time have done even. Although receiving that letter heightened the emotions that I have already been experiencing in the last few days, I have been starting to look at Marquette fondly and there really are some benefits in some of Marquette’s programs that I would never have had at Notre Dame. These things are keeping my chin up. Thank you all for your advice!</p>