Love Thee Notre Dame

Greta
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:34:56 +0000

MiPerson80, you do seem to like to pick on ND and I fully expect to find out from you very quickly if ND’s ranking drops even one spot when the new edition of that magazine is released later this summer. Your son chose another college, yet here you are, still haunting the ND forum with your mostly (well really, only) negative views about ND. I am not questioning your right to share, but I do wonder at your motivation.



I just think it is incomprehensible to expect famalies making more $170K/yr to pay $220K for a private school education.

…This statement is incomprehensible to me, but many families making $170k/yr can and do pay $200k-$220k for a private school education. We make less than that, are full pay for our oldest and we will do it again if our youngest is admitted in the future. The financial planning tools we used a decade and a half ago prepared us for these numbers and the annual increases that result in these numbers.



What is also worrisome for ND is that they hardly had any increase in applications this year, even with going to the common app…I think this is going to hurt their ranking

…First, this was certainly not a normal year for college admissions. I don’t think the evidence is there yet that ND admission statistics for 2009 are out of line in comparison with their peers. Second, the rankings themselves are somewhat artificial and exist to sell a magazine. I view the rankings as ‘ballpark’ numbers. They are useful, but I do not recognize them as hard, indisputable numbers, especially in this anomalous year.

But again, I don’t think you are worried that ND will drop in rank. Rather, based on your numerous posts, you will be disappointed if ND doesn’t drop. Prove me wrong?