<p>These two schools are my top right now, with UChicago in a distant first.</p>
<p>Can I get your thoughts about both of them? I am head-over-heels for UChicago and am more than content with ND. Anyone who got it to one or both of them please or someone who is knowledgeable about each? </p>
<p>Assuming your decision is neutral financially, if you are Catholic and into college sports, ND would seem like the clear choice - otherwise, UChicago.</p>
<p>I really hate college sports and football, but enjoy going to the games for the social aspect and for when the game occasionally gets interesting.</p>
<p>Financially both have promised the same things and my NPC turned up the same, so… Ya!</p>
<p>what is your intended major?</p>
<p>If both cost the same, and you are head over heels for Chicago, then your decision is made! Congratulations! 
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<p>My intended major is Pre-Med/Psychology with a double major or minor in Economics.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to give the wrong impression, but I haven’t applied to either but I am going to apply early action to both in the Fall.</p>
<p>Part of my question is can I/how can increase my chances of getting in?</p>
<p>Have you visited both schools yet? They have very different feels. My Catholic, altar server son took ND off his list after visiting because it seemed too religious and too focused on athletics for him (other reasons too). Although initially ambivalent about Chicago, he felt at home the minute he stepped on campus. Applied and was accepted EA. My advice? Be sure to visit both if you are able.</p>
<p>I was accepted into and visited both schools, and for me, UChicago was the winner. It offered more in terms of diversity and academic interest, and student engagement. ND will offer you more of a community, but I found it to be a very defined community that revolves around football and partying. But you’ll have to decide whether you want more of an athletic, conservative community, or a smaller, more liberal liberal-arts feel. </p>
<p>I have visited both and my love of UChicago is what sprang from that. I’m comfortable at ND but don’t absolutely love it. I also love in south bend… So I’m very aware of it.</p>
<p>Can I get your stats?</p>
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<p>Here is another viewpint to consider. Offspring was torn between UC and ND, leaning toward UC ( turned down MIT ). ND then stepped in at the 11th hour with an incredible monetary offer ( they do not give merit scholarships, but they can be very creative in wording them in different terms when they wish to be ). So, off to ND s/he went. Very much to the contrary of what you might read on this forum, life at ND does not need to revolve around football and drinking, not in the slightest. S/he enjoyed the wonderful feeling of community and collaboration there, and the richness of opportunity afforded by ND’s outreach, station, physical campus, connections, traditions . . not to mention their massive endowments. I might note the kid is a devout atheist, nonsports participant, and very casual football fan - none of which were the slightest problem in being absorbed into the wonderful ND fold. Also contray to what you might read on this forum, s/he excelled mightily in her/his two fields of study ( one science and one arts ), and was positioned very well by the school to be recognized for her/his work, which s/he was quite dramatically - domestically, internationally, and in journals and on campus. As S/he says: there can well be something to be said for being the biggest fish in a smaller pond. </p>
<p>End of the tale, s/he will be finishing a fellowship at Cambridge this year and then attending UC as a fully supported grad student, having been strongly recuited by them - and they and s/he are extremely pleased things worked out the way they did. UC as a phD track grad student is going to prove to be a wonderful opportunity, probably or at least arguably moreso than had she gone there as an undergrad. </p>
<p>UChicago vs. ND? Well, I would have taken Amos Alonzo Stagg’s 1923 team.</p>
<p>Thank you so much! That’s good to hear for sure!
Right now I’m concerned about applying and being admitted cuz I’m average or below at both schools.</p>
<p>Good luck! ND and U of C were my top choice schools when I applied this past fall. I applied to both EA, and was accepted to UChicago EA and deferred from ND. In March, I decided on UChicago before I’d heard back from ND, but I was then waitlisted by ND in April and eventually rejected in June.</p>