I think yield protection is a factor too in all the “wait listed” decisions… just forgot to mention in my initial post
Also, I heard that demonstrated interest is important to Case… In my case (lol a pun!), I think I should have shown more interest beyond just visiting the school.
I’m surprised I was accepted. I applied sort of last minute and didn’t show all that much interest (didn’t even get the chance to visit it). Not sure what put me over the people with higher stats.
Deferred EA–> Waitlist.
Congrats to everyone who got accepted!
After all the technical difficulties, she is in! Over the moon!
University Scholar $25K, $19.5K grant, Baker-Nord Humanities Scholar $500
National Merit Finalist
Notre Dame Youth Leadership Seminar (invite-only program; 83 kids worldwide)
4th nationally FBLA Business Communications
State Champion Rhetorical Essay
Lots of EC
4.0 GPA; ranked 5 out of 339
SAT 1470 700 M 770 V
ACT 36 R and 36 L; 33 Math
780 SAT Subject Test English
720 SAT Subject Test US History
AP HUG, Stat, Calc, US History, Lit, Lang, Art History, Micro, Macro, Physics, European History, World History
We are at a very poor Title I school in the South. Most APs were online/self-study (AP Physics nearly did the whole family in). Showed interest by going to Case, requesting interview (did not get one).
Waitlisted at Bates and Kenyon; Stamps Scholar at Elizabethtown; in at Seton Hall, Manhattan College, UMaine, Simmons, Rollins
Where do we check if we have gotten financial aid (packages) from cwru? other than scholarships in the acceptance letter
@Cgaope University of Alabam has VERY nice National Merit deals, and they were still heavily recruiting my kid; UT Dallas is free, I think, and U Maine has attractive offers. I think you can still change, but might not get preferential treatment as much. Good luck.
@cj12345 , I would not be discouraged yet. Case Western’s Common App does not have the writing supplement that allows your personality to shine through. I think that writing supplements help.
@bsmdstudent101 , It was at the bottom of the admission letter in another link
My son showed plenty of interest, visited, had interview, went to college fairs, sent a letter after deferred. I don’t thing that really matters.
@hopewhite25 The game IS frustrating. My student applicant also got waitlisted… after they verified financial info. In addition to yield protection, there’s aso the fact that CWRU does not practice “need blind” admissions, and I suspect that factor, too. (1560 SAT, 4.3 gpa, multiple instruments, languages, countless interesting pursuits, achievements, and a social life to boot-- not like he’s not amply qualified) Best of luck with decisions!
So after over an hour of no email and my son struggling to figure out how the heck to get into his portal, he eventually got in and found out he was accepted!
RD
35ACT (36 superscore - which I’m not sure if they do or not, saw conflicting info - so I sent both scores to be safe)
4.0 UW/4.7W GPA
Lots of APs w/ all 5’s…think he’ll graduate w/ something like 15 APs…
Lots of music and math related ECs…
Still waiting to hear from a few other schools, but really happy he made it in to Case…
There was a $23K university scholarship listed in his acceptance letter, but I’m wondering if that’s just the merit aid and if there will be possible additional need based aid forthcoming or not…just saw someone refer to a link at the bottom of the letter to see that - I guess I will have him check in the AM…
@annamom High need is my suspicion, as they do not practice “need blind” admissions. CWRU should have easily been a “safety” for my applicant, but waitlisted, and I definitely suspect it was the money. Bad taste in the mouth with CWRU on multiple counts now.
^^I suspect it is the strategy many colleges use.
Just have to remind the kid not to keep the hope high
case’s acceptance rate is ~35% (probably lower than that this cycle since this year has been so rough on applicants). case is not a safety, especially during regular decision. case already fills much of its class through ED, EA, and ED2. case is also very good at figuring out who is using them as a “safety.” i have seen a lot of irritated reactions from people over being rejected/waitlisted because case was considered a safety, but you may have been rejected/waitlisted for exactly that. case cares about demonstrated interest and admits applicants they believe will choose them. wustl does the exact same thing.
(p.s. for any future applicants reading this, any school that rejects/waitlists ~65% of its applicants, such as case, is by no means a safety school. case rejects/waitlists plenty of applicants with perfect scores and gpas all the time, as seen from this thread and the early action thread as well.)
@pamnkswimowipa “and a social life to boot” - lol I’m sure your applicant will end up where he deserves to be.
Son was accepted EA (35/1550, NMF, 11 APs, varsity sports/music, good EC); he did not make finalist for any of big scholarships, although he did get a university scholarship of 31K I think what helped was:
- major - they want good Comp Sci students to up their game in that dept
- not a lot of need
- lots of family connections-they seem to want to protect their yield. I have a brother who is an alum (and a sister who is an alum of John Carroll right down the road) and lots of family in the area even though we are OOS
- Early demonstrated interest - we visited last year and he interviewed for over an hour, not including the extra 20 minutes that the interviewer spent with us. He (interviewer) seemed to connect (he had worked at JC) and also seemed impressed that mom and dad and little brother (also possible enrollee, lol) all came
But honestly, I feel like it’s all a bit of a crapshoot (we are on #3 and this feeling has remained steady). He was accepted to OSU, Purdue, UMN and others but rejected at our state flagship, UIUC.
We’re visiting next week and hope to make a final decision after!
Son waitlisted after being deferred EA (Engineering)
ACT- 34
UW GPA: 4.0
9 AP’s
Valedictorian of class (500+)
Varsity sports, many EC’s with leadership roles
Went on tour & info session
I see much lower stats getting accepted- makes no sense
Did you get a scholarship?
Is there anyone who was accepted, not get a scholarship? Looks like everyone who has been accepted gets some kind of scholarship.
It seems like most PPSP rejected applicants got a merit scholarship if accepted for about $23,000. Congrats to everyone accepted and waitlisted and hugs to those survivors who were “rejected.” It just means they had already gotten the “all nation tuba/oboe/ singer/paperclip sculptor” and didn’t need another one for diversity’s sake. It’s not you, it’s them. It seems that this application year is terribly competitive with no idea what factors are needed to tip the scales.in an applicant’s favor.