<p>You will find a lot of interesting information in the Common Data Set, including how student interest is considered. Here is a link to all the CDS files for Notre Dame for several years.</p>
<p><a href=“CDS -- Office of Strategic Planning & Institutional Research”>http://www3.nd.edu/~instres/CDS/CDS.shtml</a></p>
<p>Section C7 indicates that student interest is “considered” (other categories are “Very Important”, “Important”, and “Not Considered”. So it is not a big factor, but they do notice if she has been in contact or not. If she signed in at the “ND on the Road” events, that is good. If they have a way to sign up for emails at the admissions website and she hasn’t done so, she should. It is fine that she will be visiting, but probably those other things would be enough to show she is interested already.</p>