<p>Wow, I’m shocked at the waitlists with the awesome stats you all have. My son did visit and interview, so maybe that helped.</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED - bioE</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 1510/2150 (710cr/800m/640w)
SAT IIs: 750 MathII
GPA: 3.9uw/4.6w
Rank: top 5%
Other stats:</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Yes
Teacher Recs: Yes
Counselor Rec: Yes
Hook (if any): </p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: NJ
School Type: Big ole public
Ethnicity: Asian/White
Gender: Female</p>
<p>General Comments: $25,500 University Scholarship, Aid actually met FAFSA - what a concept!</p>
<p>Sorry, about the waitlist stats, Case only admitted 39 off the waitlist last year.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2330 (800 CR, 750 M, 780 W)
[</em>] ACT: 35
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 770 US History, 730 English Literature
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 33/440
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 on Calculus BC, English Language, Chinese Language, and US History
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Web Development, Math Analysis, AP English Literature, AP Psychology, AP European History, AP Environmental Science
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): A few school clubs
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~30 hours
[<em>] Summer Activities:
[</em>] Essays: I would say above average
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I’d guess pretty good
[</em>] Counselor Rec:
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: None
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NC
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): United States
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>]Income Bracket: <$20k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Standardised test scores
[<em>] Weaknesses: GPA, extra-curriculars
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I guess my GPA just wasn’t enough. I didn’t really show much interest, either.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected at WUSTL[/li][/ul]General Comments: Well, now I’m just really depressed/disappointed, because Case was one of the less selective schools that I applied to. Hopefully they’ll accept more from their waitlist than they did last year. Congratulations to everyone who was accepted, though!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 31
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: 4.0/4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/285
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Dual (4yr univ): Bio 2, W. Lit, Calc 1, Macro, US History </p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): SO MANY. Secretary FCCLA, VP Bio Club, Pres. Math Team, Historian DECA, 1 college research op.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 500+ Volunteer hrs
[<em>] Essays: Good
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Stellar
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good?
[</em>] Additional Rec: Stellar
[li] Interview: Awesome alumni interview</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Bio
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): GA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White/Asian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: 200k+</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: GPA, Courseload, ECs
[</em>] Weaknesses: Standardized tests
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: no idea</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
what the **** case</p>
<p>Admitted with $30.5k scholarship/yr. Nowhere near COA (at all), but also my fault because I applied to exactly zero merit scholarships.</p>
<p>Wow… I think I got waitlisted, because I was an international who applied for FA, but what about domestic applicants who got waitlisted?</p>
<p>Looks like Case is suffering the case of Tufts Syndrome or they’re trying to protect their yield as one poster has already mentioned!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): na
[</em>] ACT: 30 overall
[<em>] SAT II: na
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): weighted 3.98
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5% (10/160)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4), Gov, Chem, Lit
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): not offered
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs, 2 Honors (physics and calc), Latin IV, Econ (as elective)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): “Cum Laude” scoring on National Latin Exam 2011
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Latin Club (treasurer, president), Girls State (minority whip in House of Reps), NHS, Student Gov, Academic Challenge, etc
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: working as a cashier 15 hours a week since April 2012
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Soup Kitchen, levy committee, etc
[<em>] Summer Activities: Work
[</em>] Essays: good, showed my personality and uniqueness
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: great
[<em>] Additional Rec: na
[</em>] Interview: na
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): OH
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>]Income Bracket: upper middle
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: recommendations, essay, rank
[<em>] Weaknesses: volunteer service
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: overall well balanced image as well as personality/traits
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted - Ohio State, Ohio U, U of Akron Honors[/li][/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>received $20500 in scholarship money. Case is my first choice. Pursuing Chemical Engineering</p>
<p>@robbob, probably because you applied to engineering and your arent a minority? IDk i am not the admission officer. Maybe if you didnt have interesting ECs?</p>
<p>Shocked that son was waitlisted!!</p>
<p>34 ACT 4.165 WGPA SAT II Math 780</p>
<p>Awesome ec’s, great recs., and essays.</p>
<p>I am sensing a pattern here. All the waitlisted posts have amazing stats. </p>
<p>Son did visit last year, but never contacted them after that.</p>
<p>Can you say “TUFTS SYNDROME”!!!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT: 2070 (740 Math)
Unweighted GPA: 4.0/4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/340
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: showed literally zero interests (i applied for the hell of it); yield protection</p>
<p>^definitely</p>
<p>I am absolutely baffled and feel horrendously humiliated. I live in CA. I have a 2300. Taken 10 APs. UW: 3.96. Weighted: 4.32ish. (SAT Bio 800, SAT MATH II 800, SAT CHEM 800, SAT PHYSICS 780)…
—taking 5APs more currently.</p>
<p>Rank 10/700
Lots of extracurricular activities, internships, community service. I literally have everything. (I don’t horde it, but I rather enjoy what I do). I also had GREAT essays and GREAT letters of rec too. </p>
<p>Also a NMF…</p>
<p>and I got WAITLISTED…I don’t get what is up with decisions nor how they make decisions at all. (DID NOT APPLY FOR FINANCIAL AID)</p>
<p>Maybe I applied bio major (premed track). But then again, it’s Case Western…it shouldn’t have amazingly difficult program to get into, unlike WUSTL persay.</p>
<p>First of all, why are there 2 threads??</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted with $28k</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 (720 CR, 800 M, 760 W, 9 essay)
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Physics
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9ish I think
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/372 at uncompetitive public
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (5), Stats (5)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Lit, AP Gov, French 5 (college-level), Economics
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): weak
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 150+ hours at Sunday School
[</em>] Summer Activities: traveling, vacation, lounging around lol
[<em>] Essays: I though they were bad. The decision letter mentioned something about my Common App essay in the PS- does that mean they actually liked it, or is it just a common thing for them to do?
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: No clue
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[<em>] School Type: Uncompetitive public, no one goes to Ivies, last years valedictorian went to Case
[</em>] Ethnicity: Pakistani, did not report
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>]Income Bracket: 85k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Scores, grades, probably essays
[<em>] Weaknesses: ECs, gender
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted: See strengths
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Suny University at Buffalo and University of Rochester. No rejections yet but Ivy day should be full of them.[/li] [/ul]General Comments: 28k is nowhere near the cost of attendance. I’m eligible for ~25k need-based grant, according to their NPC. Can I combine this with the scholarship? Also, when do we get financial aid packages?</p>
<p>Thanks guys! Those of you rejected or waitlisted: There are plenty of great schools out there. It doesn’t even matter where you go, it mostly matters what you do when you get there!! </p>
<p>Best of luck to all!</p>
<p>after seeing the stats of all those waitlisted, i feel very honored to have been waitlisted as well. i think getting accepted would have shattered my confidence a bit</p>
<p>@jushyosaha604-- if you go to the right where your decision is, you should see a place to pull up your fin aid pkg-- it’s up.</p>
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<p>I cannot comment on your application, as essays and recommendations are highly subjective. But, Case’s yield last year was 13% which sucks, so they’re trying to bring that up. They may have looked at your application and been like “No way this kid is coming out here to Cleveland, and he’s using us as a safety, so there’s no point in taking him.” It’s called “yield protection” and yes, it happens.</p>
<p>Also, did you demonstrate interest? One way to avoid yield protection is to demonstrate interest in the school. I didn’t demonstrate any interest but I still got in somehow lol (maybe because my cousin goes there)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I: 700 reading, 700 reading, 770 writing (11 essay), 2170 overall
ACT: Not sent
SAT II: 710 BioE, 760 Chem
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): weighted is 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 13/700 (roughly)
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (4), Lang (5), Lit (5), Stat (4), Human Geo (5), Calc BC (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): SL Econ (6), SL Bio (6)
Senior Year Course Load: 5 IB, 1 AP, Newspaper
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP scholar with Honor, National Merit Scholar
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Beta Chi (Class Rep 3 years), Mu Alpha Theta, School Newspaper (Editor), National Honor Society, Ballet, 3 Instruments
Job/Work Experience: Helped with my dad’s construction company
Volunteer/Community service: 200+ hours, 3 Week Teaching Trip to China
Summer Activities: Mission Trip, Online Coursework
Essays: Unique, most said they were good
Teacher Recommendation: One was very good and the other was probably fairly generic but still positive (didn’t know her as well)
Counselor Rec: Amazing
Interview: Didn’t have one
State (if domestic applicant): FL
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: Public with Magnet (IB)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Low
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Strengths: Transcript/GPA, Essays, Recs
Weaknesses: Focued ECs
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: UCF, UF, Stetson, Drexel, Ursinus Deferred: UChicago, WashU</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted with 23k</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1880 (did not submit)
[</em>] ACT: Comp: 34; reading 34, math 32, science 35, writing 34
[<em>] SAT II: 720 math 2, 660 Us History, 650 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.4/ 4.3 weighted
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 13%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro 3, Comp Sci 1, UsH 4, Psych 4, Physics 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Ap Calc AB, AP stat, Ap lang, Ap chinese, Ap Gov, Ap micro econ, Comparative Religions, Advanced Philosophy
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): -(Board member) and listener at a non profit phone helpline for crisis callers, Community Helpline
-Founded book donation charity
-Founded lighting business
-Founded ADHD Forum</p>
<p>[<em>] Summer Activities: Above and worked as a counselor at a camp for mentally handicapped children
[</em>] Essays: Common app was strong, wrote about how my work on the Helpline showed me I want to study consumer motivation
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: havent seen them but they both love me
[</em>] Counselor Rec:decent
[<em>] Additional Rec:fantastic
[</em>] Interview: went really well, showed lots of interest
[/ul][ b]Other**[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity:Asian (INdian)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>]Income Bracket: 200k+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
[/ul][ b]Reflection**[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Test scores, Rigor of curriculum (11 total Aps)
[<em>] Weaknesses: Gpa for sure
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: showed interest, showed i like to be challenged and will be an active contributor to campus
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected from UPenn wharton ed and WUSTL, Deferred EA from Uchicago and Umich[/li][/ul]General Comments: Probably wont end up going but its nice to have an acceptance from such a great school :)</p>
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<p>Thanks! Got it!</p>