<p>Does the religion of an applicant have an impact on the student's chance at a non-affiliated college?</p>
<p>(ex: U of C, NU..)</p>
<p>I am just wondering because I belong to no organized religion. I am a deist and I believe in many of the concepts formed by Friedrich Nietzsche.</p>
<p>It shouldn't, and I don't believe that it does.</p>
<p>How on earth would the admissions office even know about your religious beliefs? If you are trumpeting them in your essays, perhaps it is unnecessary.</p>
<p>I thought part of the application asked for your religion.</p>
<p>they don't. the FAFSA has an option for you to list a religion if you wish to become eligible for certain scholarships, but no college application that I know of asks for religious affiliation.</p>
<p>Depends on the university.</p>
<p>If you apply to the Catholic University of America or Brigham Young University, then yes it's obviously a factor since it's a religious school. 98% of the students @ BYU are mormons. lol</p>
<p>Georgetown does, but I think its optional. I'm not Catholic and still got in.</p>
<p>At most colleges it makes no difference at all, and no one on the admission committee will know your religion unless you specifically bring it up in the optional parts of your application.</p>
<p>"Is that Nietzsche? You don't talk...because of Friedrich Nieztzche?"</p>
<p>Little Miss Sunshine is an underrated flick.</p>
<p>ALL secular and loosely-affiliated (Georgetown, American, Emory) will not discriminate based on religion whatsoever. FOR THE MOST PART, the moderately-affiliated schools like Notre Dame will not discriminate, but by nature will likely have a homogenous student body...this is because of the applicant pool (I'd imagine 85% of apps to Notre Dame are Irish-American Catholics). The only schools that will really consider religion are the Bob Joneses and Brigham Youngs of the world.</p>
<p>Something that tells me if you are a deist, you're not applying to those schools anyway.</p>