FAQ

Payment of the required $75 application fee is available online through the Common Application or Coalition Application website.

Payment methods include the following:

• Credit card/eCheck – Secure online payments can be submitted using any major credit card. Alternatively, providing bank account information allows for submission of an electronic check.
• Eligibility for the application Fee Waiver is based on financial need. Qualified applicants may use this payment method to satisfy the application fee requirement. Your school counselor will receive notice of your intent to use the Fee Waiver, and will then need to verify that you meet the eligibility criteria outlined by the Common Application or Coalition Application. Once eligibility is confirmed, the Common Application or Coalition Application process will bypass the payment step.

Your admission decision will be shared to your applicant status portal in mid-December for Restrictive Early Action and late March for Regular Decision.

You should have received an email to the email address you provided on your application notifying you that your admissions decision is ready to view. Included in the email were instructions on how to access your applicant status portal.

Our Restrictive Early Action application process is non-binding, and admitted students have until May 1 to indicate their decision to attend. Every college and university uses Restrictive Early Action in a different way. The easiest way to understand how Notre Dame uses it is to describe what it is not. It is not the avenue students should take merely because Notre Dame is their first choice. Nor is it easier to gain admission through the Restrictive Early Action process.

In deciding whether or not to apply Early, ask yourself: can I submit my best application in October of my senior year? If so, then Restrictive Early Action is probably the correct route for you. However, if you believe that an extra semester could be beneficial for whatever reason (to raise your grades a little, to add on to your resume) then you should consider applying during Regular Decision.

The University requires the completion of the following high school courses in order to be considered for admission. A unit is equivalent to the credit for a year of satisfactory work in an accredited secondary school. The two language units must be in the same language and a language offered by the University of Notre Dame.

Students are required to take 16 units during their high school career. This distribution will differ slightly based on the student’s intended area of study, but must include the following:

• 4 units of English
• 3 units of Mathematics – Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry (4 units preferred)*
• 2 units of Foreign Language (3-4 units preferred)
• 2 units of Science (4 units preferred)**
• 2 units of History/Social Science (3-4 units preferred)