<p>Do they accept everyone or something... or like 71% according to PR? If they do how is their avg SAT pretty high... and why do they give so much financial aid.... do they have some kind of secret swiss bank account?????</p>
<p>umm lets see: they aren't selective? how's that for an answer</p>
<p>then how r their sat scores so high?</p>
<p>illumin4tus is very wrong.</p>
<p>their acceptance rate is so high because they consistently recieve a very qualified applicant pool. People generally use the school as a backup for the ivies, so their stats are pretty high. Case also avoids the whole Tuft's syndrome thing, meaning that they never reject people because they think they're being used a backup for an ivy.</p>
<p>Sounds good... lol I wasn't sure if they had tufts problem too because I wanted to use it as a safety or match school.</p>
<p>Only academic types are drawn to Case. Its not very appealing to alot of students, this is also why engineering schools have higher accept rates but higher SAT averages as well.</p>
<p>so as U. Rochester.. I feel pretty sad for them....</p>
<p>selectivity = based on acceptance rates.</p>
<p>so although pool may be qualified, they still aren't selective.</p>
<p>noo... its a self-selecting pool.. meaning that the school is selective but most of the applicants meet the characteristics that they choose, kind of like UChicago has a relatively high acceptance rate for a institution of its caliber. Case is also known to be a horrible place for anyone who wants a social life so that removes all social types and leaves the nerdy antisocial engineer types</p>
<p>They are not that selective. Look at my high school over the past two years. Neither the quality admitted nor the amount admitted show that it is selective.</p>
<p>Tcci.naviance.com/wootton
CLick on enter as guest
Go to scattergrams on the left
Look up case.</p>
<p>Everyone gets in. I am in Maryland and people joke that if they don't get in anywhere atleast case will be a backdrop. They also joke as Case being a saftey to UMD. That might not be all that untrue looking at that 1160 3.8W getting in at case and looking at the same range at UMD, instate mind you, you can see that some people got denied.</p>
<p>umm I have also seen cases of 1200 SAT and 3.6 GPA getting into cornell(non-URM and non-athlete)... so what does that tell you</p>
<p>well lets take a look at my school again and look at Cornell. Surely similar students(or exactly the same students) are applying and you can see a difference. Its not just one sub 1200 student getting into Case from my school. Sadly there is no people applying between that 2.9W 1150 and the 4.1W 1150s but 32/33 students got in. looking at my school(which was ranked top 20 last year among high schools) a 4.0 Weighted and a 1200 seems to be a big time match and a 4.0 1250 looks like a safety.</p>
<p>"looking at my school(which was ranked top 20 last year among high schools) a 4.0 Weighted and a 1200 seems to be a big time match and a 4.0 1250 looks like a safety."</p>
<p>lets see... your school is ranked top 20 and 33 people are applying to case, which is a lot from one school, and a 4.0 1250 is pretty good. I dont get your point at all.... we are saying case is selective we arent saying its an ivy</p>
<p>basically, cheapseats is really dumb, and i'm ashamed to say that i reside in the same state as him/her.</p>
<p>The fact is, Case's average statistics are better than UMD's. UMD has a lower acceptance rate because thousands of idiots apply there every year.</p>
<p>obviously Case's stats are higher than UMD's. That is why people joke about that. Selectivity is way to subjective if you do not look at %s. I too think a 4.0 1250 is really good. I got a 4.0W 1380 so its not like I am near the top of that curve. </p>
<p>Comparing Tufts and Ivies to Case in terms of selectivity is also not very smart Jake. You said it is a back-up to ivies and that is my only point. I am sure many people that apply to ivies also apply to Case but i am also sure many people that apply to state schools apply to Case(and do get in). Now Jake, I don't appreciate being called "really dumb" but really I am not going to say much to you because this is still an online site. Also without looking I can guess that you are going to Case, tell me if I am wrong. </p>
<p>I truly think that case is a great school but I do not think it is selective. It has a 71% acceptance rate and my only point is it is not all the people that have above 1400 and apply to the top schools and only use case as a back up. People, atleast the ones I know, don't apply to ivy league schools with 1250s and 4.0Ws(which is making them a near safety at Case) and Jake said that case is a back up to ivies. IN that case many, many schools are back-ups to ivies. </p>
<p>Now if we are asking why it has such a high acceptance rate and high stats, I would say that the smarter kids know that they will have a great shot at scholarships at Case apply. Case is great with financial aid and I think the people who can understand that their 1400 might get them an amazing scholarship are the smart ones.</p>
<p>wow, you still arent getting it. Selectivity doesnt necessarily have to do with percentages. Selectivity is based upon certain characteristics that colleges use to select students, this is why every website/magazine that rates selectivity adjusts their selectivity rating for schools with self-selecting pools. Go by just percentages and im sure you will find that u of michigan-ann arbor rivals schools like cornell and uchicage (which is definitely not the case)</p>
<p>^ then what are the magical stats that make a school selective??? Its all subjective. Jake says it is a back up to the ivies. A lot of schools are back-ups to ivies then, that is all i am saying. It accepts wide range of people. The middle 50 range is 220 points. They have very,very smart people and also have people that wouldn't get into other schools in the same ranking range. Now I do think your reasoning of it attracting smarter kids because of social situations is right.</p>
<p>the "magical" stats are avg. sat, avg. act, avg. gpa, etc.... wow that brings us back to the op who referred to case being high in all these. That is exactly WHY case is considered selective. Selectivity ratings are based on the schools average stats. Yeah it accepts a wide range but so does EVERY school outside of the ivies and top 20 LACs. The range it accepts has absolutely nothing to do with selectivity.</p>
<p>I mean what numbers are the magical numbers. Selectivity is way to subjective, i think you can agree with that. I added that my school was a top 20 school to tell you that these numbers may be off but a 1250 and 4.0 is a garantee here. It is not exactly a back-up to the ivies. Ofcourse the kids with over 1400s are going to get in and take up the average but kids at the 1250 range are also going to get in and a 1200 4.0(from my school) seems to be a good match. It accepts people at this range and that is how selective it is. If someone doesn't think a 4.0 1200 is very selective then case isn't exactly very selective. The upper 75% take up the numbers and the reasons for those students applying have been stated. Great financial aid, good school, and it draws a particular type of student. I really don't care much if case is selective or not so I'll drop out of this a bit. I only cared to post here because I was seriously considering case.</p>
<p>screw you all. if your school isnt top 10 it isnt selective.</p>