<p>Hey, everyone! Does anyone know when we will find out if we are invited to the Reilly Weekend? Thanks!!</p>
<p>Hello. My daughter was accepted in 2012 and invited to Reilly. There were at least 2 different Reilly weekends; one in early March for the early action students and one in April for RD. My daughter was invited in late Feb for the April weekend; the invite came before she knew of her RD acceptance. She believes the EA kids were invited in January. The weekend was a wonderful experience. She stayed with a Reilly frosh who was interested in her intended major. There were dinners//mixers/a movie//time to socialize with current frosh and other Reilly honorees/classes to attend//a dinner in the stadium press box and multiple tours. ND paid for airfare and all expenses and explained the Glynn Honors Program. While my daughter did not attend ND, she met several great kids (including one who is a dear friend now) with whom she remains in contact. Do attend if you are invited.</p>
<p>Reilly Weekend</p>
<p>@sha1of2 Thank you!!</p>
<p>What is Reilly weekend?</p>
<p>Here is a link from admissions:<a href=“http://admissions.nd.edu/reilly/”>http://admissions.nd.edu/reilly/</a>
My understanding is that the Reilly Immersion Experience is ND’s way of recruiting academic and leadership stand-outs by showcasing ND’s academic opportunities. . In my daughter’s group, over 60% were trying to decide between ND and the Ivies (HYP), Stanford, Uof C, etc. They represented a diverse group of kids who had the records to succeed anywhere…some were leaning to their state schools with full rides and others were looking to work in a particular field or with a particular professor or program. The Reilly students who end up at ND often receive merit scholarships or entry into the Glynn Honors Program. The criteria for being “invited” is unclear to me. I have a current child at ND who had almost identical SATs and academic record to the sister invited…no invite…but my Domer is sitting on a 4.0 after 5 semesters and has had 2 research assistant-ships and lots of individual attention…and is holding leadership positions in 2 student organizations. In other words, being a Reilly student is an honor but not a guarantee or necessity for success. If you are fortunate enough to be accepted, you can definitely make the most of it and be happy there as long as you bring arctcic weather gear and the ability to bear the fb team’s roller coaster ride!!!</p>
<p>I got a invitation in the mail today, in central Ohio! Absolutely shocked; I was not expecting this at all. What a blessing! So excited to attend!</p>
<p>@mojoschweni97 Congratulations, that is awesome!! I’m also in central Ohio, but we had a mix-up with the mail yesterday, so I still have my fingers crossed. If you don’t mind my asking, when is the Reilly Weekend this year and what are your stats?</p>
<p>Thank you! The program runs February 21-24.</p>
<p>3.98 unweighted, 4.31 weighted GPA at a good public school; 35 ACT, 1520/2230 SAT, four 5’s on APs. I’ve done a lot of service work which I talked about in my app, but that’s the basic summary. Curious to know what made me stand out in that upper end!</p>
<p>I live in Kansas and I received my invitation yesterday!! I’m incredibly excited to go!!</p>
<p>Is the invitation through email or snail mail? Do you think they have all been sent and received by now?</p>
<p>@dancing1 I wouldnt lose hope since mail is especially slow this time of year. </p>
<p>I guess the Reilly weekend isn’t going to happen. Instead today I received an invitation to an engineering open house on campus the weekend before. Darn!</p>
<p>Spring Visit Weekend is different than Reilly Weekend, right?</p>
<p>Hi everyone. I’m a 2012 February Reilly alum who is now a junior at ND. Time for my annual Reilly rant. Sorry if this is way more information than any of y’all wanted.</p>
<p>@motivatedjunior I got my Reilly letter on Christmas Eve via snail mail, but that was three years ago (Geez, has it really been that long?!).</p>
<p>@dancing1 Getting invited to the engineering open house does not mean that you won’t be invited to Reilly. I was invited to the engineering open house first, but chose not to go when I got my Reilly invitation and decided to do that instead.</p>
<p>@Coolkid999 Yes, Spring Visit Weekend is a different visit experience than Reilly.</p>
<p>For all of you who are sad that you have not received a Reilly invitation: please don’t think too much of it. 1,400 students were admitted REA to Notre Dame this year, and the average admitted student had a near perfect GPA, a near perfect SAT/ACT score, and a ton of ECs and leadership. So basically, everyone who got in was outstanding. Only about 100 of those 1,400 will receive invitations to Reilly. Deciding who receives an invitation is highly subjective when all of the admitted students are such great candidates and only about 7% receive Reilly invitations. Don’t get me wrong, if you got one, I’m not saying at all that you didn’t deserve it. I’m simply trying to say that all the accepted students have amazing resumes, and nobody should view a lack of a Reilly invitation as an indication that Notre Dame doesn’t think you’re special. If they accepted you, they think you’re pretty darn special.</p>
<p>As far as the benefits of Reilly weekend, it was a wonderful experience for me and it definitely made my decision to attend Notre Dame a lot easier, but you certainly don’t need to go on a Reilly weekend to understand how great ND is. If you’ve been accepted, visit with an open mind. I hope you’ll love ND as much as I do. I hope you’ll see that Notre Dame thinks you are wonderful and really wants you to attend. But above all, please don’t be upset if you weren’t invited. You are awesome, and you don’t need a Reilly invitation to prove it.</p>
<p>If you did receive an invitation and have any Reilly-related questions, feel free to hit me up. I’m always willing to chat about all things Reilly and all things ND.</p>
<p>@sasbmar Thanks! Spring Visit Weekend is for minorities, right? I recently got an invite, but I’m white. Are they counting first-gen as a minority? </p>
<p>@coolkid999 Yes, Spring Visitation Weekend is an event for minority students. I don’t know a ton about it, so I can’t tell you exactly who they consider to be minority students, but first generation college students very well could be one of the groups that this minority student event includes.</p>
@sasbmar Thank you!
@sasbmar Can you get invited to both programs? I’m just wondering because I got a Reilly invite but no Spring Visition invite, but I’m hispanic (immigrated here when I was young). I’m not complaining - I’m so happy I got Reilly! but Im just curious
@Runnrunaway I do not know a whole lot about the Spring Visitation Weekend, so I do not know whether it is possible to receive an invitation to both Reilly and Spring Visitation Weekend. Regardless, I am confident that Reilly will provide you with an outstanding opportunity to see what Notre Dame has to offer. I hope that you will attend.