<p>News article here:</p>
<p>And from outside sources i've heard that it now has more women, more out-of-staters, more humanties ppl (103% increase), more engineering (89% jump), and BME moved to 3rd. More than 7,000 applicants compared to 5,500 last year.</p>
<p>Wow, what great news. Thanks for sharing.</p>
<p><em>braces herself for what the campus is going to be like with only one dining hall for all these people</em>
Yeah they opened up the RAship because of all the new kids. My class of 750 is slightly annoyed at the turn of events: we like new people but not the fact that there's no idea on what to do with them (for example, there are literally not enough people to run SAGES). I hear they're going to keep South Side open after all, however...</p>
<p>It seems risky to me to have 750 students expecting new housing that isn't finished yet. I expected they would hold the south dorms as a contingency if construction is not entirely complete in August.</p>
<p><a href="http://nrvcam.cwru.edu/view/view.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://nrvcam.cwru.edu/view/view.shtml</a></p>
<p>stargirl, who have you heard is going to the south dorms? Freshman or upperclass?</p>
<p>stargirl - I too share your concern to some extent. I am so glad that Case is doing so well, but at the same time we do worry about what this student influx will bring specially since they are implementing the SAGES program for everyone at the same time. We are keeping our fingers crossed and hope that all will work out for everyone.</p>
<p>WS17- all the upperclassmen have their housing taken care of already so it'll be the frosh on South Side (which is sort of against the whole thing they were planning on doing but I'm not going into that). Problem is since everyone knows the newly picked RAs and LAs are going to be on Southside away from all their friends and such so as far as I can percieve no one really wants to do it. I'm sure they'll get enough people in time, but between that and the fact that they're closing the South Side dining hall I'm kind of worried about those frosh who get placed there. Upside is, in case anyone's interested, that it's closer to main quad and the rooms are bigger/ primarily singles in case anyone's interested.</p>
<p>stargirl, according to that chart you previously linked,</p>
<p><a href="http://admission.case.edu/db.htm%5B/url%5D">http://admission.case.edu/db.htm</a></p>
<p>they had about 400 confirmations in the last 5 days of April. Must be difficult to plan with such an unpredictable surprise.</p>
<p>Do you know how they will select which FR go to the south dorms, ie, by major (closer the the engineering quad) or by date of confirmation, or ?</p>
<p>Any chance they'll keep the dining hall open?</p>
<p>In all honesty I've utterly no idea and I don't think people in housing have much of an idea right now either. I know housing NEVER puts people together by major and instead tries to put different majors together, so doubt they'll take that approach for Southside.
And I personally think right now there's a huge chance Fribley (southside dining hall) will stay open because it was silly enough to believe one dining hall would be enough for all the undergrads anyway. They were planning on having some sort of catering thing on south side for the Greeks down there, but I think if they shafted a lot of frosh like that they'd be in trouble. All I know is if they keep Fribley open there will be much rejoicing as everone likes Fribley more anyway.</p>
<p>AHHH! So all the frosh will be in the South Side? Arghf, hoping to be near the business school, like the North Village. Will all the frosh be in South or some in North too?</p>
<p>Sorry, clarification: North Side has a capacity for I'd say 850 or so freshman at maximum. So odds are any frosh will be there anyway, but about 300 need to live SOMEWHERE...</p>
<p>I highly doubt that freshmen will be on southside...Case really likes to have the "freshman experience" that includes everyone living in a concentrated area. If anything (I haven't crunched the numbers yet, but I assume this is what may happen) they will probably move the upperclassmen from Cutler, Storrs, and maybe Clarke tower to the dorms at the bottom of the hill. We were originally thinking that this is what would happen, even before the freshman class got so big. I doubt that they will leave people without a dining hall in a reasonable distance either, they will probably re-open Fribley if there will be students in residence halls there (they were thinking about opening it for at least 1 meal a day for the greeks anyways). Conveniently, the housing contract that all the upperclassmen already agreed to says that the university has the right to re-assign our housing at any point, so that means that they have every right to relocate all the upperclassmen that they need to southside.</p>
<p>If it is true that they don't pair students by similar majors I have to ask a question. My son will be in studying lib arts this fall and when he visits his friends there their friends always ask what he is majoring in (Art History/French) and they all make a face and say something like wow, you are not in sciences, etc. Now they do kind of say it jokingly but I am worried that they will place him with someone who is a die hard engineering major who doesn't appreciate fine arts.</p>
<p>I believe that if your son is highly motivated and works hard he will find his nitch at Case. I believe by mixing the freshmen up, the "bookish" engineering majors find interests that they might not otherwise have discovered. My daughter, a very dedicated biomedical engineering student, had a dance major for her roommate...Both of them had to work hard at what they were studying. My daughter had a new respect for how much work dance took, and her roommate appreciated a roommate that was quiet and studied hard.</p>
<p>The students that seem to have the hardest time fitting in are those that try to qualify themselves by saying "my major is just as hard as yours" ...it isn't a competition after all! Surprisingly, my daughters friends did not necessarily have classes with her...They got to know each other through floor activities and other activities. The nice thing about Case is that the people that chose Case generally want the opportunities for music or humanities-type classes that Case offers (even if they are majoring in engineering.) My daughter could have gone just about anywhere for college, but she chose Case because there was a balance there that she hadn't found at the other colleges.</p>
<p>kosha, Yes, that is what we love about Case. Sometimes, I just get a little worried. My son has had art classes forever, and people always think it is just a cake class, etc. If I wouldn't have lived through it with him (and my niece in graphic arts) I would have thought so too (not to mention expensive!). I can honestly say that these students work HARD! Thanks so much for replying I'll stop worrying:)</p>
<p>so there is no chance for the waitlist people to get in?</p>
<p>ledyana: You should call them (or at least email) to get this answered accurately. A call might also get you in.</p>
<p>ledyana - I just want to wish you luck.</p>
<p>Mominsearch- don't worry about it, it's pretty much as kosha said. I only know of one person who was actually serious about thinking her major was better and "harder" then everyone else tries to avoid her because we get mad about stuff like that.
Jesting, however, is definetely going to happen but it's all done pretty well. Heck, I'm physics/ astronomy yet get jabs regarding my major, but then I retaliate by telling people if physics was any easier they'd call it engineering. Very nerdy but all in good form. ;)</p>
<p>Has anyone here received a dorm assignment yet?</p>
<p>No dorm assignment for me...</p>