@mark89unc On your “Chance me” post on February 7, you only graded your Notre Dame supplemental essays as a “C.”
Did you end up getting in during the Regular Decision cycle? If not, it could have been because of the writing supplement, assuming you were honest in your self-assessment. I’ve been following ND admissions very closely for about 2 years now, and those supplements need to be extremely strong to separate out one qualified candidate from another in the huge cluster of students in the 32-36 ACT range that apply to ND.
FYI, at my large suburban high school, in the last 3 years, a total of 5 were accepted to ND (out of 33 applicants). Of those 5, 1 was a legacy admit. I got the totals from Naviance (my school’s Naviance only shows the most recent 3 years of data), and I knew all 5 of the admits personally. Of the admits, the legacy admit had the highest SAT score (1570) but all 4 of them scored either above 1500 on the SAT or 33 on the ACT.
No matter where you ended up enrolling for college, I hope you have a great freshman year. OK, now back to my own college essays… (ugh, what an end to the summer)