University of Notre Dame Top Questions

-great community -money a touchy subject -again, it's competitive, but i find people to be very open and welcoming

Students are mostly white, upper-middle class Catholics. Most people will assume that you're Catholic and be surprised if you're not. People usually wear jeans or sweatpants to class. Most people are relatively laid back, which is sort of atypical for a prestigious university. Also, everyone is so nice out here - always holding doors open for you and saying hi. A lot of students are from the Midwest - the Chicago area. Every fifth person will tell you they're from Chicago, but we all know they're from the suburbs a half hour from the city.

too rich and homogeneous to understand all aspects of a problem, people's socioeconomic backgrounds and family affect decisions a lot. predominantly right. I think liberal, non-athletic or slightly punk students would feel out of place.

It is not as diverse as is ideal, but progress is being made. Students are spirited and have great pride in Notre Dame, their halls, and themselves. They come from all over and have all sorts of views on the world.

football is huge, for the most part, the student body is white and preppy, lots of drinking on the weekends, lots of pretty well-off children (finances)

Notre Dame does not have the most balanced student body. For instance, LGBT students often do not feel welcome here because they are discriminated against by many devout Catholics. Notre Dame does have a decent number of minority students, but for the most part, people only hang out with people of the same ethnicity. It is usually a type of self-segregation. Also, certain minority students such as Asians and Hispanics like to speak in their native languages, and this can be hurt their chances of making friends from other ethnic backgrounds. Students also seem to self-segregate based on their family's socioeconomic background. Gender relations between the students are also unbalanced, and Notre Dame is in many ways a patriarchal school.

We're not extremely diverse (pretty much white catholic kids), but there isn't any tension between people from different backgrounds. The only student who would feel out of place is one who isn't willing to mix working hard and playing hard or who isn't willing to be open to learning new things about other people. We're an extremely welcoming student body - you just have to open up and be welcoming yourself....afterall, isn't that what college is about? meeting all kinds of people from all different places and backgrounds and getting to be great friends with them?

Notre Dame is not diverse enough..... I am used to more types of people in one place & sometimes get bored/ discouraged trying to keep my friends from other cultural backgrounds which has never happened to me before.

The student body is pretty homogenous, there's not a lot of diversity. And the few minority students taht we do have tend to stick with each other.

The campus could be more diverse. But there many active multicultural groups.