Okay, it is not Catholicism (I though do belong to a Roman Catholic church) that has me infatuated with ND. It is, however, the education (shocker right, lol?). Close family friend is a legacy and I was hoping to have gotten a letter of rec from them, forgetting that ND requires letters of rec to be from core-subject faculty. I have a wide variety of schools in mind, I do not want to stay too close to my town, it isn’t that great and my heart doesn’t belong to it. University of Michigan, UPenn, OSU, FGCU, Ashland, Baylor, Case Western, and Clemson are on my list. I don’t really have a specific characteristic that I’m looking for other than the basics of education, retention, job placement, and faculty to student ratio.