Do you think there is a big different between sending an email to the regional rep as the LOCI or uploading it via the applicant portal? Logically, I know that it doesn’t matter and that everything gets put in your file but it is hard to be logical at a time like this :-).
Good luck everyone.
@VACrew my son decided to do both…he emailed the letter directly to his Admissions counselor and uploaded it to the portal. They have a drop down for deferrals…so he thought it best to put it in there too 
Best of luck. I have been on him to get this letter done, but it sounds now is the time everyone is working on it so that makes me feel better. I was worried that it was too late…he wanted to be sure of his mid year grades before writing anything since they say you should only make one contact.
@PopUpZone1921 That’s what we just did. Our midyear transcripts became available on Friday and I just submitted my letter referencing my transcript to my regional AO who responded back next day. I guess that is all I can do and it is time to sit back and wait.
Hello, please let us all know what the results are for each of you waiting. I’ve been a part of this feed from the very beginning. It’s nice to see results for others. Good luck to everyone!!
I am pulling for you @VACrew!! This makes me feel so much better that we did the right thing by waiting for mid year reports. This was the last thing we needed to do for applications…its time to relax and enjoy the next few weeks. It will all work out in the end.
Hi, thank you so much for all this helpful information. I am also preparing my LOCI (deferred) and was wondering whether to send an email or upload a letter. I can’t find the “drop down for deferrals” that you mention. Do you mind sharing where I can find that on my portal? Thank you again!
@LovingLive2023 I think the defer drop down was in his Notre Dame portal We went in through the letter he got about his deferment. There was a separate section underneath all of the previously checked boxes from original application. it allowed him to browse for that attachment and label it defer documents. I hope I am describing this right. PM if not and when I am with him later we can help you find it. best of luck in writing your letter
Good morning everyone. My son got a phone call from a current student at Notre Dame a couple of days ago to see if he had any questions. Anyone else have this happen? They called our land line. I have to say, they have been very persistent (in a good way) about letting us know they want him! None of the other schools he got accepted to have done anything beyond mass emails.
@WineLover My S19 got a call as well but it went to his VM. He doesn’t have any questions (just waiting to see if he advanced in the scholarship round!) so he’s not calling back.
@WineLover @MagnoliaMom Our D received the same call on her cell last night and went to her VM with similar message. The communications from ND has been very impressive - emails, letters, Christmas cards, etc. It’s good marketing but it is sincere and I believe shows a prospective student just how genuine the ND community is.
@FourToPutThrough This is why we are so hopeful deferment turns to a YES!!!
My daughter has a friend who was deferred. Will ND release all decisions at the same time or do they release bits and pieces like I’ve seen other schools do?
All at once on the portal. My son’s year was on 3/20.
Effectively translating admissions into attendance is the reason for Notre Dame’s high yield numbers since many years. The post admission, personal communication program with students, described above, effectively contributes to these outcomes, there are other factors as well. Nevertheless, high REA & RD yields, on the other hand, do hold back overall admission numbers when building a pre-determined 2023 class size. Very best of luck and success to waitlisted REA and newly joining RD applicants!
@WineLover I didn’t want to mention anything to my daughter in case she did not receive a call. She just forwarded me the VM she got a couple of days ago from a sophomore at ND. Apparently she doesn’t check her call log often. Definitely feeling some Irish love.
@WineLover ND administration and the actual students do a great job of turning EA admits into ND enrollees. When my son was accepted EA last year, he got personal emails from the local alumni club setting up a reception for the EA admits. There were about 5 EA admits who attended, and about 9 ND students. There was some general discussion with parents and then the kids just headed downstairs to hang out and talk. And they talked about EVERYTHING! None of his other EA admit schools did anything other than send him to a portal to look for a regional reception. He also got several calls from ND students just checking in. My son went to the EA admit week-end in February but, more importantly, arrived there a couple of days early to do a day with a student. That day went great, and he then spent the next day with a friend of his official host who had invited him to visit more classes that were more to his interest. By the time the official EA admit week-end started, he was pretty much comfortable that ND was for him. By the time the week-end was over, he had a strong group of friends who stayed in contact with each other through the final enrollment deadline, trading stories and perspectives, and then met up together the day before school started this Fall for an informal reunion. While my son had some RD applications outstanding and one deferral from EA, he increasingly exhibited little interest in these after returning from his February trip to Notre Dame.
Most importantly, Notre Dame has proven to be everything that he had hoped that it would be. And nothing makes a parent happier than seeing a happy, well adjusted child come home from college growing in myriad ways as he matures along so many dimensions into a young man. I really can’t say enough about how much we value Notre Dame as a family.
@CCSavant Yes, my son also attended a local alumni reception for accepted EA students with his dad. I heard only great things about it. Really hoping he will advance to the next stage for the the merit scholarship so that he can really get a flavor for ND during the merit scholars visit!
@WineLover Merit scholarships are few and far between at ND. You should be honored that your son is in the process. But obviously, the money would be very nice…best of luck!
Thank you @CCSavant, we were very surprised when he received the invite as we knew that scholarships are limited. But grateful to have had the opportunity to try and potentially get a chance to visit ND if he gets to the next stage. And I should have mentioned that it was very heart warming to read your post about how happy your son is there. The sense we have is that ND is a welcoming place where students help each other vs. compete against each other. This was one of the biggest draws for our son. Although he has very high stats, he did not want to apply to any ivies because of the “cutthroat” culture. And he really loves everything about ND – the excellent academics, the campus, the sports, the Catholic identity.
@CCSavant Thank you for sharing your thoughts.