@Dadof4greatkids Right. ND has a high Freshman Retention Rate of 98%. Fall 2016 2,048 ND Students enrolled, which suggests approx. 40 places to open up on average from freshman/sophomore year.
Any AFROTC peeps admitted?
@NoturneD my daughter only received the financial aid package in the mail so far, no admissions package. She was offered very little in aid and ND thinks we have $45k to pay towards college every year. I feel like I filled out something wrong, who knows, but this isn’t gonna work for us. :-<
“She was offered very little in aid and ND thinks we have $45k to pay towards college every year. I feel like I filled out something wrong, who knows, but this isn’t gonna work for us.”
Slinky – would you be willing to share what annual income range the $45k annually is supposed to come out of?
People on these boards at various times have described ND’s aid offers as everything from generous to measly. But you really can’t make any sense/use of those qualitative comments without having some concrete numbers attached.
@northwesty $160-179k gross range; ND website indicated $31k average aid; she was only offered $10300 in scholarship and $2850 in campus employment and then $7500 in loans. So it’s actually $49k we need each year. We have another child and other expenses. I wish I had that much extra for ND but it just isn’t there. I don’t want my daughter finishing college with any loans if possible, except for maybe her 5th year for her Masters. We are still going to go check out the school and maybe play the lotto but I think she will be going to UF now. 
Slinky – that is a lot less than what ND’s website suggests. Which is a median schollie of $31k and 25-75 schollie range of 25k-36k.
Maybe ND nicked you for that stash of Krugerrands you have in your basement…
Thanks for the info.
@northwesty must be! (Yes, I had to google that!) $-)
Starting to feel better about getting waitlisted, we couldn’t afford to send him
Perhaps you’re missing the asterisk (*) at the top of the column of the “average award.” Those average awards are for families with at least two students attending college…
Notre Dame is supposed to be generous with financial aid, but my daughter was offered double the amount from UMiami, so it was just a surprise. Not sure how OOS versus in state factors in, but it is what it is.
“Perhaps you’re missing the asterisk (*) at the top of the column of the “average award.” Those average awards are for families with at least two students attending college…”
ND’s table is kind of ambiguous, since there are two asterisks.
There’s one at the $250k income line seems pretty clear. There’s zero aid at that income with only one kid in school. The one at the top of the column is harder to interpret. I guess it means that most families getting the median schollie have multiple kids?
The 25-75 column isn’t asterisk-ed. If you have only one kid in school, is the correct reading that you should expect to come in below the 25th percentile award? Which is aligns with Slinky’s experience of getting a schollie less than half the 25th percentile award?
If that’s how to read it, I bet a lot of folks get surprised like Slinky.
Hey guys, I was pre-admitted to mendoza. Do you guys know how mendoza fares against other top undergrad B schools such as stern, dyson, wharton and ross??
Where can we check our financial aid award?
I almost feel like this is a topic for another thread, but want to ask for any that were surprised by your financial aid…did you do the NPC before applying? We found them to be amazingly accurate for almost all schools (including ND) to which my kids applied. (With the caveat being that if you own your own business, or if there is tricky non-custodial parent income you need to contact the Financial Aid office for guidance.)
We did the NPC for ND and it was spot-on (we are middle-class but do have multiple kids in college). There were other schools that we ended up not applying to or even visiting (examples being BC, U of Wis/Madison) because the NPC reflected that the financial aid was not enough (and the academic awards offered would either not be enough or were so competitive/few they looked like a longshot.)
@NoturneD Yes:)
In regards to the ranking of Mendoza, my son is about to graduate from Mendoza next month and has a job on Wall Street lined since October of his senior year. He got the job through Notre Dame, as well as his Summer internship, as the investment bank came to Notre Dame to conduct interviews. What more can you ask for?
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Hi, I am reading ND-related threads as my daughter is planning to apply to ND either REA or RD. She is having second thoughts though because her ACT score is 30. I am curious if you got into ND because you mentioned your ACT scores are in the 28/30 range. thank you.
@cvf Notre Dame encourages students in the 75% and up (scores) to apply early. I’m pretty sure with a 30 she is safer to apply RD because she can and might be outright rejected EA. They really reserve those EA spots for the tippy top candidates. They definitely admit students with 30’s, but I think it might be harder during the EA stage, unless she has some kind of hook (legacy, athlete, URM). Admissions is very friendly at ND, you could probably talk to someone about it anonymously.
Your kid should talk to her ND admissions rep. They are quite open to those conversations. And it always helps to show interest and establish some relationship with the person who will be reading the app.
They’ll probably tell her to apply RD. While no kid/app is just an ACT score, ND’s 25-75 middle range for ACT was 33-35 last year. And ND admissions says this:
ND is “highly conservative when making Early Action admission decisions. The Admissions Committee advises students to apply in the Restrictive Early Action process only if they are in the very top ranges of our applicant pool.”
@NorthwesternDad @collegemomjam thank you