I see that the acceptance rate for general students at ND is around 25-26% (US News). Using my college application experience as a guide, I assume most students apply only to those schools where they have a chance to be accepted (i.e. high achievement in required high school core courses).
So, if you had to guess, how many ND football players would have been accepted to that school had they been general students?
And I believe your source (US News) will tell you that the acceptance rate for the general student population at ISU is about 90%.
The point is
not that ND does not admit some student athletes that otherwise (if they were not athletes) would not get admitted to ND...they do.
The point is that the admission standards for the general student population at ND are higher than they are for other schools and that the admission standards for student athletes at ND, while lower than the general student population at ND, are still higher than the admission standards for student athletes at other schools.
By the way, for the person wanting examples...you will not get them due to privacy laws that exist today.