<p>Doug Flutie Effect: "the phenomenon of having a successful college sports team increase the exposure and prominence of a university"-wikipedia</p>
<p>There will def be more applications for admission>more money for the admissions dept. Will it make admission more difficult? Possibly.</p>
<p>This is probably not going to affect the EA people but i was actually thinking the same thing myself…hopefully i get in in a few weeks and not deferred so i dont have to worry about that!</p>
<p>I would guess that there will be more applications, which will make it appear to be more competitive for admission.</p>
<p>However, how many really competitive applicants will add Notre Dame to their list? I believe it will be minimal. The additional applications this year will come from kids who have 30 ACT/2000 SAT and 3.2 GPA who suddenly decide it would be more fun to go to ND that Big State U.</p>
<p>My speculation is that the tippy top students have a rather solid list by the end of the summer. They might tweak the list during the fall based on new information they receive, but football success is likely not a consideration at this point. Next year, the situation might be different as more competitive students add ND to their list earlier in the application cycle. This would be especially true for applicants from a further distance (California, Texas, etc.) who might not have been aware of the high level of ND’s academic excellence but have learned more about it simply through increased publicity.</p>
<p>A recent study suggests that applications will increase. </p>
<p>"Black students are more responsive to big-time wins than are their white, Asian, and Hispanic counterparts, according to the study.*A Final Four appearance brings a 13-percent increase in score reports from black students the following year, compared with a 5.7-percent increase over all. Colleges that win the national championship see an 18-percent increase in score reports from black students.</p>
<p>“Certain groups (e.g., blacks, males) may be less well informed<em>about the college-admissions process to begin with,” the researchers write. “Thus, sports success may cause</em>a greater change in their preferences due to lack of outside knowledge.” "</p>
<p>[How</a> March Madness Affects Your Applicant Pool - Head Count - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/how-march-madness-affects-your-applicant-pool/31388]How”>Head Count: How March Madness Affects Your Applicant Pool)</p>
<p>claremarie - interesting article, but I am skeptical that submitting test scores is an accurate proxy for applications. I know plenty of kids who know they will be going to State U and simply want to send their free scores someplace interesting. I bet the University of Hawaii receives an exceptionally high number of test scores for this reason.</p>
<p>A more germane question might be how football success this season will impact yield at ND. Will the dorms be overcrowded next fall as more accepted students decide that they want to attend? Fortunately there are no freshman dorms at ND, so the impact should be diluted across all dorms.</p>
<p>Has anyone asked the Admissions Office if they take the team’s success into consideration?</p>
<p>I was definitely wondering the same thing. But I was looking at it from the angle of students applying to top-notch schools like Stanford, Northwestern, USC that all have great sports and academics. I was wondering if there would be a lot of these students now adding ND to their list.</p>