The better part of my family went to Notre Dame, including my Dad, most uncles, and about all of my Dad’s friends. I know ND has a big rep for being a Conservative Catholic type place, but honestly, I have had no experience with anything like that based on the grads I know. While my family is Irish Catholic, they are all very liberal socially and politically, and man of my dads friends from ND are not religious at all, and more than half are liberal. They all still loved Notre Dame. My dad tells me that there is definitely a Catholic vibe in the air, but it’s the “Living as a good person” aspect of catholocism that is stressed, rather than the stereotypical finger wagging catholocism. From what I can gather, there are people of all types and beliefs at Notre Dame, which is really what I think a college should be.