@collegeplzaccept I live 10 mins from UR, 45 mins from UVA, and have a nephew at NOVA. They are all terrific. UR’s guaranteed internships are awesome and the school is located in a beautiful section of Richmond. Plus the weather is nice (4 seasons but never overly cold for an extended period of time). Best of luck!
My child got accepted to ND/HC/Gateway. I was unaware that rejection on EA was possible as some schools defer those that are not accepted. The talent of the admission pool is stunning. I think that the relationships these 60 kids forge would be amazing and as great if not better than those in the ND dorms. I would encourage my child to also embrace all that Holy Cross has to offer and to be indebted that this school also gave such an opportunity. It would appear from the website that the Gateway scholars must take Calc I and II again as well as physics or bio even if they took these courses in high school. Not sure how that is different than ND. Small price to pay and my child will definitely go out to check out the program.
This generation of kids often have not experienced adversity. My advice to Gateway students would be to embrace it as a gift to be given to just 60 by both schools. I would be nothing but impressed by a young adult that swallowed any ego issues and followed the road less travelled.
@Magnetron (post # 1146) I have not seen any indication that Notre Dame intends to increase the size of the incoming first-year class, other than the usual ebbs and flows depending on how many accepted students ultimately enroll. The first year class has increased slightly in size over the past 4 years from 2,011 to 2,052, which represents a one-half of one percent compound annual growth rate for each of the past 4 entering classes. In other words, pretty much flat. Given that ND’s incoming class size of 2,050+ is already the third largest among the top-20 private schools (after only Cornell & Penn), if anything ND’s incoming classes are pretty large relative to peer institutions.
The new dorms are to alleviate overcrowding in existing men’s dorms, and to accommodate more juniors and seniors given the new “six semester residentiality” requirement that ND is implementing for the incoming class this fall. Details can be found at the link below.
It is part of their Long Term Plan to add “over 5 million new square feet.” It is pure inference on my part that they will grow the undergraduate enrollment incrementally while they are building new dorms, expanding the classroom offerings, and increasing study abroad participation. There are advantages to this that would make it the most likely.
I have not seen or heard specific guidance on undergraduate head count. An 11.3% growth in number of REA offers of enrollment means they are either growing the Class of 2022 (my guess) or dropping the regular decision offers (hope not for the RD kids’ sake). Or they could be expecting a big drop in yield which would seem a little out of character.
@Magnetron Not an unreasonable inference on your part re: the possibility of incremental growth in undergrad enrollment. I was going off of Don Bishop’s quote from a few years ago where he was talking about how ND had already had its “growth spurt” when it grew from about 1,700 per class to where it is today at around 2,000 undergrads per class. At that time (2014), the quote he gave was that he felt applicants could trust that ND will stay around the same size it is now. Obviously things could have evolved over the past 3 years if the institution’s master plan has changed.
The REA admit rate was 24.4% in 2016 and 24.7% in 2017.
So more kids applied early than before, more kids got admitted early than before, a higher percentage of the seats will get filled (assuming stable yield) via the early round.
That does not necessarily imply that enrollment is going up. Could just be that a bigger part of the admission/enrollment task is happening at the early round. Which is the national trend.
@velascot31 my friend has similar stats to you and is applying RD, what do you think were the biggest strengths of your application that helped?
Has anyone received their Welcome packets yet?
@Virgmom I got mine in the mail yesterday
D also received hers yesterday.
@Virgmom I got mine yesterday as well.
We haven’t received ours yet. I’ll guess I can call tomorrow if it doesn’t come in the mail
It probably depends a lot on your location. The USPS is probably pretty busy this time of year.
Is there a RD thread?
@goldenlabrador I haven’t seen one yet
I am from Wisconsin, and I just received my acceptance letter in the mail on Monday. I only live about 2 1/2 hours from ND, too, so if you live farther, I wouldn’t stress about it!
Is anyone else still waiting for their welcome packet? Starting to stress
I got mine yesterday, and I live in Indiana! don’t be worried
Just got ours in Virginia today
I’m in Virginia and haven’t gotten mine