<p>I am now a freshman at an average public big ten school, but I have planned on transferring to Notre Dame since I was rejected for freshman admission last year. In high school, I graduated 8/51 with a 3.9 GPA. My SAT and ACT scores were low at less than 1200 (math + reading) and 25 respectively. My first semester of college was superb with a 4.06 GPA but with only 12 credits plus 9 from high school. This semester I am taking 18 hours of classes and is going slightly worse, but my overall GPA should be at least 3.85-3.9. I have been in contact with an admissions counselor from Notre Dame since last June. I have taken all the right courses, except one math course that I dropped out of. I did very few ec's in high school or in college, and my high school recommendation letters were bad and I chose not to send any this year. </p>
<p>My biggest concerns are that I have no ND legacy in my family, I went to a tiny, mediocre, public high school in the middle of a cornfield, and the Catholic heritage in my family is strained. My parents are not frequent mass-goers and decided to not raise me Catholic outside of baptism or send me to a Catholic school. On the applications I put
Catholic where they asked for my religion, and the main reason why I have always wanted to go to Notre Dame is because it is Catholic and to finish my confirmation process there.</p>
<p>So, if you have transferred to Notre Dame or know anything about these things, what kind of a shot would I have at getting accepted as a transfer? If you have transferred, what were your stats?</p>