Notre Dame does not have a GPA minimum for a committee recommendation.
@Alexandre The research advantage you speak of does not exist at any school like Michigan as a result of prodigious graduate programs or an affiliated medical school. Elite liberal arts colleges send a higher percentage of seniors to medical school than either ND or Michigan without any graduate programs at all.
The point that we are attempting to make is simply one of where money is best spent. As a parent, I would never subsidize the education of kids in another state while equal or superior options were available instate or at private schools. Service levels and resources per student are much better at private schools because otherwise alumni would not support them.