Hello,
I really want to get into Notre Dame. I am a white catholic male in the midwest. I have a 33 on the act, and good extra curriculars, well rounded, etc. I have a 91.3 gpa on my schools scale and a 3.92 on a 4.0 scale unweighted. I have taken about 4 AP/Honors classes each year on average. My class rank is 39/221. Do I have a chance to get into other good schools like Northwestern?
I also have another question?
For a letter of recommendation, do you think Notre Dame would like one from a teacher or a manager at my work. FYI the manager at my work would write me a killer letter and the teacher would write me a really good one but I don’t think it would stick out that much.
Let me know thanks
Both would be reaches as they are for most applicants.
@thelizardking25 I would tend to agree with @TomSrOfBoston .
On another thread Tom also pointed out that your unweighted GPA doesn’t make sense given the info you provided. That was the first thing that struck me when I read your post. I played around with the figures and there is literally no way that you can make an average class score of 91.3 come out to an unweighted GPA of 3.92.
Your class rank would be problematic unless your school is EXTREMELY competitive and is routinely sending a handful of students to the Ivies every year. I’m guessing you would have to be in the top 10% to have a legitimate shot unless you have a “hook”.
My counselor gave me both of those numbers. It is because my school does As as 90-100 and Bs as 81-90. So the 4.0 scale is when you take all of my letter grades?
That would make much more sense. Still, do you have pretty much all 90s?
A 3.92 would be like 2 Bs and the rest As. Does that sound correct?