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-18 posts tagged "Notre Dame admissions"
Maggie Eastland | Friday, March 24, 2023
For the last two decades, Notre Dame has enrolled 10.6% more men than women, on average. Reflecting that disparity, the University has admitted an average of 7.7% more men. Residential life housing ratios match that difference. The University has enrolled an average of 52.5% men and 47.5% women since 2002, according to Common Data Set
Aidan O'Malley | Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Title; it was disappointing (I guess it was clickbait). But we’ll get to that part later. Your first question may be: How? My thanks to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA. Remember that box you checked on the Common App when you submitted your letters of rec? You were waiving your FERPA
Isabelle Kause | Monday, October 10, 2022
My journey to Notre Dame was not that of the average Notre Dame student. During my senior year of high school when applying to colleges, I knew wholeheartedly that I wanted to be at a college that had a warm and welcoming, yet academically rigorous environment, much like the college prep, Jesuit high school I
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, September 6, 2022
The University’s division of undergraduate enrollment announced in a press release Tuesday that it will remain test-optional through the 2024 application cycle. The practice, which allows applicants to choose whether to submit standardized test scores, was first adopted by Notre Dame in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One-third of the students admitted to the
Isa Sheikh | Thursday, August 25, 2022
More than 2,000 first-year students will descend upon campus to begin their Notre Dame experience this year. The class of 2026, heralded as the most diverse and selective cohort to date, will move into residence halls and acclimate to the campus community around them through Welcome Weekend. Welcome Weekend, the University’s annual process of orienting
Ryan Peters | Thursday, August 25, 2022
About 2,053 first-years will arrive on campus this weekend and begin their time at Notre Dame. The class of 2026 followed recent trends, with applications, selectivity and racial diversity all increasing. The incoming first-years were the first class to be able to have in-person tours and information classes since the pandemic. Director of undergraduate admissions
Ryan Peters and Maggie Eastland | Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Editor’s Note: The Observer spoke with associate vice president for undergraduate enrollment Don Bishop to gain insight into the increasingly competitive Notre Dame admissions process. This article is the first in a series analyzing different trends and development in admissions. Following two decades of the number of applicants surging, Notre Dame admissions are now more
Spencer Kelly, Uyen Le and Lilyann Gardner | Monday, April 4, 2022
As recently reported in The Observer, Notre Dame’s class of 2026 is incredibly inclusive. The incoming cohort contains students from all 50 states and 95 countries, while 47% went to public high schools, 41% are students of color, and 20 to 22% will be Pell Grant recipients. With an understanding that Notre Dame has not
Mary Ellen Woods | Monday, January 24, 2022
With the recent batch of Notre Dame early admits, I am reminded of conversations about the Class of 2025 — the most diverse of any admitted to Our Lady’s University, until, presumably, the Class of 2026. Friends, cherished alums themselves, decried the demographics of last year’s enrolled class, suggesting that they diminished the value of
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Notre Dame will continue its test-optional admissions policy for the 2022 and 2023 application years. The move is a continuation of the policy announced in June, which had been in the works for years, but was catalyzed by concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic and the accessibility of standardized testing. The current policy allows applicants to