@MEC1026 i was a bit worried for a moment there, thank you!
Sigh. DD Waitlisted. 33 ACT, 4.0 UW, 4.67 W, 9 APs, & tons of ECs. Looks like it going to be Georgia Tech. At least the weather is better down there :-*
Daughter rejected from both Notre Dame and Northwestern on the same day 
She was on the lower end of averages for ACT scores but was outstanding on everything else so decided to try for a few reach schools. She wasn’t expecting to get in and didn’t seem to care at all. I was the disappointed one. I think Notre Dame is such a great university and remember visiting a friend that attended and fell in love years ago. At least there is closure now and she can make up her mind about her other acceptances. She has some nice options with Ohio State and Miami University with merit aid. In the end I think for financial reasons this worked out for the best. Notre Dame and Northwestern would have been a stretch financially and loans involved. Between the merit aid at the Ohio schools, savings and what we can contribute from our salaries she should be able to graduate college with no or very little debt.
Congrats to all that were accepted!
accepted!! honestly shocked because ND was a reach school for me ahhh can’t believe it
i’m an international student so standards/stats are a bit different. also, i go to a catholic school
SAT - 1460
GPA UW - 4.0 (school doesn’t do weighted)
no rank either bc school doesn’t do ranks
AP classes - AP Lang and AP Calc AB (maximum AP classes you can take is 3)
ECs - class secretary, math honors society (w/ leadership position), golf for 8 years, piano for 10 years, part of multiple school committees that i was also head of, church/religious organizations, a lot of volunteer hours
i plan on taking chemical engineering
@cooper62 I feel your pain! Our daughter was denied from Northwestern and ND within minutes of each other last night. It’s a lot for them to absorb emotionally quickly, especially since so much effort is put into this process.
Your daughter has fantastic options and how great to have merit $$?! We tell our daughter that merit money is the ultimate compliment.
REJECTED -Mendoza College of Business
SAT: 1460 (1480 Superscore)
GPA: 3.6 UW / 4.25 W
6 AP’s (Every other class was Honors)
Had many quality EC’s IMO (Almost all were business oriented)
It’s a shame, Mendoza seemed like it would have been a good experience. Oh well…
DD-waitlisted (chemical engineering)
Caucasian Catholic New Englander
SAT 1510
UWGPA 4.0
Lots of volunteer & EC
Hoping for better results next week- a few good acceptances already. Best wishes all!
rejected
GPA: 3.83 W and around 3.74 UW
SAT: 1430 / 690 (reading/writing)+ 740 (math)
Does anyone have any advice on the Gateway Program?
I was accepted to UVA from OOS so I am between that and ND Gateway…
@FallFB @hpcsa On the contrary, almost all of the selective privates do this. ND is very open about preferring legacies, as is its right as a private institution. That’s life.
@sunnyside4 Pretty shocking for your son to not get into ND as Legacy but get admitted to U. of Chicago.
Waitlisted for Mendoza
1410 SAT
3.79 UW
I wasnt expecting this at all, really thought I would get in. Did anyone find ND to be unusually selective this year? More people got into Northwestern than into ND in my school. Does anyone know this year’s acceptance rate?
@LongJourney, here’s a thread about the Gateway program: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-notre-dame/2059882-university-of-notre-dame-gateway-class-of-2022.html#latest
@GraceDad We were shocked, and don’t have a clue why this happened. He’s a smart, well-rounded, kind person with athletic and musical talent. It’s all so arbitrary.
@sunnyside4 Very sorry for your son, given that his excellent qualifications and legacy status did not result in a different admission outcome at Notre Dame, while he succeeded (without legacy?) at the University of Chicago. Congratulations!
@sunnyside4
I wouldn’t be so sad if I were you guys lol, Congrats
My S was rejected. I think I’m bummed more than he is. I was a 1st gen college student and thought he might get the benefit of being a legacy, but he did not. Oh well, we move on. He’s got all the well rounded qualities, especially music, but in the end it’s ND’s decision. He had a ACT of 31, SAT of 1410, top 5%, legacy and Latino to boot…
Oh and congrats to those that got accepted. Welcome to the ND family. Go Irish!
“@GraceDad We were shocked, and don’t have a clue why this happened. He’s a smart, well-rounded, kind person with athletic and musical talent. It’s all so arbitrary.”
@sunnyside – did your kid apply to ND RD? I could speculate that REA vs. RD might have made a difference. Could be a yield protection thing. All the top schools seem to have a fetish these days for high yields. ND in particular brags about how its yield is even though (unlike many other top 20s) it does not use binding ED.
If a very high stat (high enough to get into UChicago!) legacy kid shows up at ND in the RD round, ND probably figures such legacy kid was applying to a higher up schools via ED, SCEA, REA or EA. Or even RD. [If the kid had applied elsewhere ED and been accepted ED, the ND RD application would have had to be withdrawn.]
So maybe ND is thinking that such legacy kid is using ND as a safety school and, if admitted to an upstream school, is likely to enroll somewhere else. If that’s what ND was thinking, were they right in your kid’s case? Would he have enrolled at ND over UChicago? And if your kid wasn’t completely drunk on the green kool aid, maybe that feeling may have the seeped into the essays and other parts of the app.
Some schools (Penn for example) specifically say that you have to apply early if you want the legacy tip. While I don’t think ND says that, they’d probably be right to assume that the yield on a high stat legacy kid they see at REA (which means no ED or SCEA to another top school for that kid) is going to be higher than the high stat RD legacy kid.
End of the day, ND says that it really digs the kids who really really dig/get ND. If they give a tip to the RD legacy kid with a 32ACT, that kid is likely to enroll. The legacy kid with a 35 ACT who shows up REA is also pretty likely to enroll. The 35 ACT legacy kid who shows up at RD – maybe not so likely to enroll.
Same here. D rejected from NW and deferred from ND in the same hour yesterday. 35 ACT, heavily AP loaded, weighted GPA 99, solid extracurriculars, etc… like so many of your kids… it is arbitrary. She got into Tulane ,Michigan (luckily she was not at all disappointed yesterday because she wants to go here- I was disappointed and puzzled), casewestern, UVA. A good deal of merit money from Tulane and CW so I think our Alice in wonderland journey through this rabbit whole process is finally coming to an end. Good luck and congratulations to everybody …