Notre Dame belongs to a tradition that was long excluded and persecuted. The Protestant and secular mainstreams viewed Catholics as dirty, working-class, urban ghetto immigrants who were probably more loyal to the pope than to the nation.
The quarter system, the theory-over-practice academics, the nontraditional majors, the nerdy culture
UChicago’s major drop can be attributed in large part by the addition of factors measuring first-generation students’ graduation rates and graduation rate performance, each of which were weighted at 2.5 percent of a school’s total ranking.
a culture that espouses the life of the mind in theory but prizes the life of the grind in practice
The course is highly recommended for students interested in pursuing a PhD and/or fellowships, such as Rhodes, Marshall, Schwarzman, and Knight-Hennessy.