UNC-CH vs. Notre Dame

eadad
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:52:25 +0000

Liberty is important to me. Thanks for the input. I wasn’t aware of ND’s limitations on student freedom. I appreciate it.



Looks like you haven’t done much research on student life there…make sure you go to the link I provided and read through that book…“du Lac” which is their campus residence life handbook though at 160 plus pages it seems more than that to me…it’s a very clear picture of daily life there if you cut through the obligatory campus highlight pictures…

I had a very good friend who was at ND in the 70s and I was in school about 90 miles away so I visited often…he was a star football player for the Irish and thus campus royalty so his experience wasn’t exactly the norm…

There are a lot of former Catholic school jocks who go to school there…they were great HS athletes but not good enough to play ball at ND but they still want to go to school there…so one thing that is unique to ND is the fact that ND is the ONLY school in America that has it’s own intramural full equipment, tackle football league, that competes for a championship trophy in the fall. Despite the fact that it is now coed, there’s still a lot of testosterone in the air there.

The campus is beautiful and full of sports tradition but when I read du Lac it doesn’t seem like much has changed in a student’s life (other than the technology) since then. College is a time that should be spent learning about yourself and growing as a person…having that many restrictions on my daily social life would not necessarily be interesting to me but I’m also fairly liberal in most of my views about things like this.

As they say, that’s why Baskin Robbins has 31 flavors. Some people really need the somewhat archaic (to me) and rigid guidelines and restrictions; you need to decide what “flavor” is best for you.

Cloying makes very good points (as usual) but I would alter her order to have “fit” be the first priority because regardless of cost if the fit isn’t correct it will severely impact your academic performance…by this I mean that there have been numerous studies done that say that if you are not happy where you are, you have a higher chance of not succeeding/excelling academically. Cost is certainly important as well and ND is NOT inexpensive…if the educational programs that you require are available at UNC save your money for grad or professional school neither of which are cheap and also have far less scholarships available for their students…

Good luck and may I also add my congratulations for your excellent choices.