Diversity at Notre Dame

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As for ideological diversity, my guess is that student views are also fairly representative of the larger population, but with a greater balance between conservative and liberal voices than one would find at a comparably selective but secular school such as Northwestern or Duke. (Those schools are, of course, much less ideologically diverse than Notre Dame, but few diversity bean counters seem to care about anything other than skin color and, perhaps, household income). Way back in 2008, the student body was evenly split between Obama and McCain, which would not have been the result at any other top 25 school.

That’s pretty interesting … as always stats can often tell any story desired. I’ll buy that a near even split between Obama and McCain mimics the overall US vote pretty well. However, I would look at that stat very differently … among college students across the country Obama won an overwhelming percentage of the vote … if ND was close to 50/50 this indicates the student population is significantly more conservative than the overall college population. For any particular applicant this could be good, bad, or nor matter.</p>