Question on Notre Dame Essay

Mombot
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:40:04 +0000

collegebound–if you really like your essay and you’ve gotten good feedback on it, then go for it. DD recycled an essay for ND last year and she’s a freshman. I think they DO get overwhelmed with “what I learned when I built houses in a third world country” and the “why I love ND” stuff, so to the extent you can give the admissions officers something that really lets them get a picture of YOU it is to your advantage to do something different.

One thing that really helped D. and what, as a farm kid and one who has taken care of animals you probably realize is that you have a lot of opportunity to show what you can contribute to the community there at ND, rather than what you hope to gain from it.

D’s essay was pretty mundane but it was all about a group of girls who befriended her when she was a lonely transfer student and what that taught her about reaching out to people rather than waiting for them to reach out to her.