How much do Notre Dame & UPenn value alumni connections?

rharan5930
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:42:25 +0000

@Tinfoyl Would Case Western Reserve be considered a reach for me? i always considered it a match if not a safety since their admission rates were 70% last year & my scores are a little closer to the upper percentile of their range. how about pitt? i don’t know if we already discussed this, but i consider pitt a slight reach mainly because i live out of state & i noticed that oos applicants that were admitted only made up 30% of their student population. im not sure if i’m judging my chances there properly though.

@kwu yes, the alumni would be able to speak about my academics, my character advantages, why i’d be a good fit etc but would it really be of a big help? from others comments it seems like it wouldn’t do all that much good.