<p>I am currently a high school junior at a Catholic high school. I am taking all honors, two APs, and two cp classes (mandatory religion classes are always cp and my scheduling forced me to take cp physics). I have a 4.1 on a 5 scale. On the PSATs my best score is 1740, where I had a 720 in critical reading and 510 in math. I know the math is very low and am being tutored to bring it up realistically into the 650-680 range, but am always hoping for better haha. For ECs, I have been class president 3 years running, have started and ran fundraisers for my grade, student council, national honors society, varsity tennis all 4 years, varsity soccer 4 years, varsity track 3 years. I am working with my state rep to set up a program to bring school leaders together to help them be better leaders and educate their respective schools of legal ramifications of bad decisions kids make nowadays. For Community Service, I volunteer at a Food Bank and am a tennis instructor 4 weeks in the summer working for cs. I really want to go to Notre Dame but after researching a lot I've become worried I wont be good enough.Should I even consider applying or will it just be throwing money away? Any help or insight would be appreciated. Also, thank you for reading all of that, I know it was pretty long sorry hahaha.</p>
<p>Unless you pull those test scores and GPA up, you don’t stand a chance. While Notre Dame blatantly favors catholics (they have a question on the common app about being catholic and 85% of their students are), your application really isn’t even competitive at this point. Sorry.</p>
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<p>I agree that the test scores need to be pulled up, but I don’t think the PSAT is necessarily a great predictor for the SAT. My daughter’s highest PSAT score was 179, and her SAT ended up being 2250 with very little prep. Not saying this will happen, but it could. I think your GPA is probably on the low side, although I’m not sure how to compare it to a 4.0 system. I would strongly disagree with ^ that ND “blatantly favors Catholics”. Because ND is the pre-eminent Catholic university in the country, the overwhelming majority of applicants are Catholic. It follows that the overwhelming percentage of attendees would therefore be Catholic. Having spent quite a bit of time there, I have never found it to be a place where non-Catholics feel uncomfortable or unaccepted. I would be extremely wary of info gleaned from “Chance Me” type posts. You give yourself the best chance if you continue to work hard, prepare well for your standardized tests, and when the time comes to apply, make sure your supplemental essays really show the AdCom that you “get” ND and why you would be a good fit. Good luck!</p>
<p>Of course you should apply. You need leadership in clubs or good community service.
Other factors are needed to flesh out your ap.
Great interview would help.</p>
<p>^Unfortunately, ND does not interview as part of the admission process.</p>
<p>impossible to chance without SAT/ACT scores…</p>