Should I even bother applying to Notre Dame RD

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I’m half Indian, half Filipino
I’m looking to go on the pre-med path. From New York

GPA: 96.4140
Rank: 39 out of 473 (Top 10%)

SAT: 2120
CR: 640
Math: 690 (I know my two part is low, but that was my first go and I just retook and I’m pretty confident I broke 700 for both)
Writing: 790

ACT: 34
English: 35
Math: 30
Reading: 36
Science: 34
Writing: 29

EC:
National honor society
National math honor society Vice President
National English honor society Vice President (All my honor societies I have about 10 hours volunteering at least in)
National social studies honor society Secretary
Key club treasurer
Natural helpers member
Varsity track Captain 4 years, football 1 year JV 1 year Varsity, and volleyball 2 years Varsity
100+ hours in Kiwanis events (charity, garage sales, etc.)
50+ hours volunteering at New York Blood Center
Volunteer Work at Hospital
AP Scholar w/ Distinction
Worked under John Mangelli in his running for Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor for about two months

Work Experience:
Test Takers Administrative Assistant (Test Takers is an SAT Prep class)
Doing that since August to present. Will continue till the end of the summer.

AP/honors courses:

9th grade:
English, geometry, global history, living environment (all honors)

10th grade:
AP psych (4), AP World History (3), chemistry honors, algebra 2 trig honors, English honors

11th grade:
AP US history (4), AP environmental science (3), AP English language and composition (5), College Spanish, Pre-calc H

12th grade:
AP Chemistry, AP Gov & Politics, AP Eco, AP Lit, AP Calc AB

My letters of Rec are coming from my 9th grade Geometry teacher and Math Honor Society Supervisor, my 10th grade AP Psychology teacher and intro to social science research teacher right now, and my 11th grade Physics teacher. Also, do you guys think I should take the Math 2 and chem subject tests in December? or nah

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Your stats look really good to me…

Just keep in mind that you can only submit two rec letters from the common app - one teacher and one non-teacher. You can e-mail more to your regional representative, but I don’t think they really like getting more than one counselor rec and one teacher rec.

Subject tests only add to the application, they aren’t required. But if you think that you’ll get over 700, sure!

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If you want to go to ND then it is worth applying-- you certainly seem to be in range. And I agree, you have way too many recommendations so send only what is asked for. Subject tests are your choice – if you think you can do great on them then take them, if not don’t bother.

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Yeah. Who doesn’t want to go to ND? Watch Rudy.