My chances at Notre Dame

ejcclc
Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:57:38 +0000

I’m going to be really picky and will probably get some grief for this, but your CR score is at the bottom of the mid-range for ND. If I were you, I would submit the ACT and nothing else. As far as being what I would term an “unhooked” legacy (i.e. your last name isn’t on a building, you haven’t donated millions to the school), that will cure the sick, but it won’t raise the dead. I look at your app and think you would be fairly competitive without the legacy connection anyway. If it comes down to you and an applicant with equal stats who isn’t a legacy, you would probably get the nod. Yeah, your EC’s seem kind of thin, but your application overall is decently strong. Make sure your supplemental essays show that you get what ND is about. On the margin, I would apply EA.