I have been wait listed by case western. Is there anyone of such kind?
Don’t be worried. I am a freshman at Case Western Reserve University and was wait listed too last year. It has been a trick for the school to enhance its ranking by enlarging the application pool blindly. Most people, especially people with high GPA and SAT got wait listed. If you really want to get in, my suggestion is to stay connected to the school, emailing officers about your willingness to attend. The school wait lists people mainly because there are so many overqualifieds among applicants who would be sure to reject the school, lowering its ranking.
CWRU last year:
Number of qualified applicants offered a placed on waiting list 6,651
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 3,004
Number of wait-listed students admitted 480
If CWRU is your top choice and you would definitely attend if selected, let them know.
Is there any merit left for WL candidates?
Last yr WL kids got 25k/yr you can go back in the case forum to find that… I would contact case in 2 weeks when they are getting antsy about filling the class. Maybe even closer to May 1
Thanks.
@ericmaruijun how do you find Case as a freshman. I was recently admitted and I have heard a lot of negatives and positives. What is your take?
For CASE, i will say, extraordinary for Premed and BME researchers but definitely not for others.
Although the school has a lot of resource for premeds, including enormous research opportunities and advising, it is actually very limited for people who want to pursue other fields.
@cali098 For CASE, i will say, extraordinary for Premed and BME researchers but definitely not for others.
Although the school has a lot of resource for premeds, including enormous research opportunities and advising, it is actually very limited for people who want to pursue other fields.
@cali098 I mean, what are you studying at CASE. There are so much to talk about if you don’t confine it to a specific field.
@ericmarujun - have you had contact or exposure to students studying economics and CS at Case? These are the two areas my S is interested in. Based on comments here and a student we know at Case, there appears to be a lot of praise for the economics department despite it not being one of the ‘premiere’ fields of study offered.
@cali098 @ericmaruijun I disagree to say there aren’t opportunities in other fields. There are a lot in Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. It is true, that a lot (certainly not all) of the professor do research related to biomedical or has biomedical applications. But there is no shortage of non-biomedical work too.
If you are studying CS here, I will say it’s a good place to go, although it’s not the best. The CS courses here are tough and due to the shortage of computer scientist or engineers and CASE’s reputation in Ohio, you can definitely achieve a lot in Ohio and adjacent areas with a CS degree from CASE. For economics, I don’t recommend you come. The coursework setting is very restrained and not competitive as other colleges’. Actually, for business school at CASE, I will barely suggest any major in it.
@cali098 Here is the EECS Faculty page. You can view professors and some have links to their research group’s website.
http://engineering.case.edu/eecs/faculty-staff
@cle4life Thanks but I got into the microbiology / premed track.
My son is studying economics and mathematics at Case Western and I disagree that pre medical or BME is the only good major at Case. Nursing is ranked about number 2 in the country after U of Penn. Art History is taught by actual curators at the Cleveland Art Museum, which is on campus. Music is phenomenal at Case Western, given that Case students can take lessons from Cleveland Institute of Music professors and play in their wind ensemble. (my son , a horn player did that!). Case has a fantastic theatre program with the Cleveland Playhouse. Case’s film courses are sold, my son has taken two of them. Case has a very very solid physics department, and all the sciences and engineering, but we are very impressed with the writing programs, engineers really learn to write at Case, which is not true at many other engineering colleges of better rank than Case. While there are less students studying the humanities and social sciences, the professors are OUTSTANDING in all fields at Case. My son won a grant to do economic research with a young faculty from U C Berkeley who are on tenure track at Case. The finance major is highly ranked as well. Case is a much more well rounded engineering college than say, RPI, or a more techy focused school, and it offers a lot of research opportunities and payed positions right on campus. It also has an undergraduate FOCUS that is really nice compared to say, Michigan, or MIT. While these colleges get a higher rank, the ranking system does not adequately show how well Case undergraduates do in say applying to Economics PhD programs. Call the Economics department chair to find out more. We did that and decided Case is a very good school for an undergraduate economics major.
Someone was offered a spot last week from case western, they denied it. FYI. Information on facebook group
@sonyainva Can you pls mention which group it is? Also Tq for your information.