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Congrats to your son. What year is he? Our daughter was unable to get in even with the "family name," but I think it's in part because her father writes scathing posts about ND's "management" sometimes. Anyway, our niece is a freshman there which is nice.

Thanks! My son is in his fourth year - he's in the School of Architecture, which is a five-year program, so he'll be back on the field for one more year.

I saw you said your son was in the band. He might appreciate this short video (that was taken after a number of beers so excuse the focus), but it was great because it "fit" right in with a post his dad did.

I enjoyed seeing that, thanks. The Band (all 380 of them) really becomes like a family within the Notre Dame Family. It's been wonderful for us to be associated with such a great tradition.

Notre Dame was my son's dream school, and despite the liberals running the place, he still loves it. We live in a tiny Ohio town and are most definately middle-class; I'm proud of my son for being admitted and am grateful he had the opportunity.

Yes, you have very much to be proud of.:) It's a very difficult school to be accepted into, and he'll always have that wonderful degree. One of our sons (the one who took the video) would LOVE to go to graduate school at ND, but the monies are not here. It's one of my dreams for him though. He'd go back if he was 40. I know what you mean about there being such great tradition there. My husband wrote this as part of a book he wrote years ago and it's why we have so much hope for the University's Catholicism as well:

"Anyone who has read the works of Fr. McBrien, and several other professors, knows that there is a threat to (Notre Dame's) Catholicism from within as well. But unlike Harvard or Yale, Northwestern or Southern Cal, all former Christian universities that are now secular schools, Notre Dame has the weapon to fight all heresies, namely Notre Dame Herself ... for the modern infidels to take control here, they would have to blow the Dame off the Dome, rip the heart (the Eucharist) out of Sacred Heart (Church) and lastly, rock by rock, tear the Grotto apart. And legions of Her sons and daughters would willingly die martyrs before they would allow that to happen." -from "Champions of Faith"

P.S. When my husband interviewed Holtz at ND Joyce Center, I was able to sit in on the whole interview. He's a good man. It was really cool.:)