Since many Notre Dame students were varsity athletes in high school, intramural sports are a big deal. Each dorm has a team for most sports, and there's a lot of dorm spirit as a result. Students are pretty active outside of organized sports, too, so you'll see tons of students running on campus (even...

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I stressed out about the application process a lot, readying every book and article available detailing how to ensure admission to elite colleges. While...

I didn't use a private admissions counselor, and I...

I interviewed with alumni from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago. Both interviews were very different. My Georgetown one was in the alumnus' law office and was very formal in structure: he read a list of prewritten questions...

Use the summer to further your interests and find your...

I applied to a decent amount of public schools because I thought I wanted to...

I plan to use my combination of visual communication design and psychology skills...

The environment at Notre Dame fit me best. It's...

I applied to a lot of schools because I was pretty unsure about what kind of school I was looking for and what subject I wanted to study. I applied to a group of top schools for journalism (Northwestern,...

To be honest, South Bend winters are terrible, and most of the year the sky is covered in what students refer to as the "permacloud" - a permanent, never ending cloud. But the culture and...

I'm in a lot of debt to be at Notre Dame. I'm a little worried about dealing with that after I graduate, but I think that, for me, sacrificing in order to attend my dream...

Show that you're ready to be an active member of the community I...

Unlike in high school, where people rack up surface-level involvement in a myriad of activities and sports, extracurricular involvement in college is all about finding one or two groups or activities you really care about and investing...

I had high academic performance (valedictorian, high test scores) combined with sustained involvement in leadership positions in a few extracurriculars ...