My stats: 34 ACT (36 Superscored). 3.0 GPA 3.56 weighted. I had surgery sophomore year and that brought my grades down significantly. I involved in many clubs and have leadership roles in DECA and debate. I am a division 3 level fencer (D2015). The thing is I’m not super social so Tulane might not fit. But on the other hand I dislike the cold and urban campuses. From my school for Tulane the average gpa is 3.6 and act is a 30 (192/328). Case is a 3.65 and a 32 (56/86 get in). Which one would I have a better chance of getting into if I apply Single Choice Early Action to Tulane and ED to Case Western? Also, which one do you think would be a better fit?
IDK what is a better fit or which will be more interested in you. Have you visited?
Since it’s clear you don’t have a favorite between the two yet and they are very different, why not apply EA to both? Your test scores are high for those schools, even if your GPA isn’t.
Are those your two your absolute favorites - what about Emory (and ED1 or ED2 + Emory Scholars)?
Can you see yourself at either one - have you visited, emailed admissions, read Fiske descriptions?
Would you have a chance of fencing for either school?
If there’s no clear favorite, then apply EA at both.
If you dislike urban campuses, why are your two choices both in big cities?
With your stats, you have lots of options. We need more info to help. What do you want to study? Do you want to fence/debate/any other EC in college or not? If you don’t like urban, do you want suburban or rural? Big or small class sizes? Big or small school?
Most importantly, what is the money situation? Do you need FA? Do you need merit?
If you fill in the blanks, we can help you more effectively.
The neighborhood around Tulane has a pretty suburban feel to it, even though it’s in the city.
Coming from Chicago, Case Western is pretty suburban.
Case is not downtown but it’s certainly right in the city of Cleveland. It doesn’t feel suburban to me at all and I’m from Manhattan.
^But University Circle doesn’t feel “urban” as in “gritty concrete jungle”, it feels “urban” as in “feel the pulse, experience the culture, meet the people”
This is a little news segment from ABC this summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5m5pbGLuOc
Not really any less urban than Tulane’s uptown though, no?
(Also…walk about 5 blocks east of U-circle…it gets gritty rather quickly)
I agree that it gets gritty in either Cleveland or New Orleans, but for the neighborhoods the students frequent, everything’s fine. 
There are few neighborhoods in US cities that don’t abutt an area that’s less hospitable - I can think of the Grand Avenue area in St Paul, or colleges in Cambridge MA, for example, but think of Barnard/Columbia, Rhodes, UCLA…
It really depends on what OP wants, but the criterion would apply to both universities: both neighborhood should be fine if s/he doesn’t like “gritty concrete jungle” but enjoy cities, including if s/he wants green space/trees, but if by “urban” s/he means “want rolling hills and vast expanses of fields”, obviously neither will do and neither should be ED.
Some of you can 't be serious - Case Western is a very urban feeling school. No green leafy Gothic courtyards.
OP if you dislike the cold and the feeling of an urban campus, then I wouldn’t recommend CWRU. It definitely has a busy urban feel. We were there in March and it was still cold. On the other hand, Tulane’s neighborhood has a more gentle feel to it simply because it’s in an area with some very pretty homes and the park right across. But NOLA definitely has very gritty areas by just turning a corner.
I get the impression that the student environments are very different too.
CWRU definitely gave a nerdy vibe off and Tulane a more relaxed vibe.
Both have amazing things to offer. Tulane has NOLA, one of the most unique cities in the US. The history of that place is incredibly fascinating. CWRU is surrounded by so many cultural opportunities that if I were a student there I would be ecstatic with so much going on it’d be hard to study.
Not sure about the stats. I would go to your school’s Naviance and check out what stats they take from your school. Good luck!!
I could fence div3 comfortably and do well. I want to get a biochem and econ double major. I want a medium sized school, and classes around 20 to 40 would be ideal. I like a traditional green campus.
For a CWRU-like university, but with a traditionally arranged campus – mostly in Greek Revival and Georgian Colonial styles – on the edge of a medium-sized city, consider URochester. Their biochem and econ are particularly strong. Fencing at UR is a club sport. For days when you would prefer not to be outside, they have a well-trafficked tunnel system.
What about University of Richmond? Looks like a very pretty campus in a not so cold place.
For a traditional campus, I agree that URichmond and URochester are both better. If you want to SEE the green (vs. under feet of snow :D) URichmond wins. 
Just kidding, both are excellent schools and URochester is superb for the sciences while URichmond has more smaller classes. I’d say both are equal academically.