Male/Female percentages

kk448
Sun, 15 May 2011 21:07:15 +0000

ajax1983, honestly it’s just a crapshoot sometimes. Perfectly qualified people get rejected or waitlisted all the time, especially as the university gets more and more selective. You’ll find people who had “worse” numbers that got in and find some who had better numbers who didn’t get in.

I got waitlisted and had friends that had worse stats than me but they still got accepted. Oddly enough, all of those people happened to go to private Catholic schools while I went to an ok public school. I have no idea if that has any bearing except for the fact that their curriculum could be harder but as someone who took the hardest schedule possible at my school, I don’t see how there could have been that big of a difference.

When I transferred to Notre Dame, at orientation, I talked to one of the admission counselors and he said that when it gets down to it, after reading so many applications that sound basically the same, sometimes it’s just a seemingly random thing on an application that can stick out and gets the student accepted. And at times, these are things that the student just barely mentions and doesn’t put a lot of emphasis on it while he or she will spend a bunch of time talking about being the captain of a sports team (even though tons of applications have the same thing).

He said it may not seem fair but if you’re reading application after application with people who have 30+ ACT scores, 3.8+ GPAs, and a boat load of extracurriulars, it gets tedious and people tend to blend in, so anything that sticks out (even if there’s no rhyme or reason) can make or break an application. He said besides the “basic qualifications,” there’s nothing specific that they look for to pick one applicant over another.