@Winky1 how did you get the application fee waiver? We paid.
@annamom , my D received several emails from them offering the waiver. It wasn’t anything she did to get. She didn’t contact them or anything like that. So by the time she applied, she was well aware that they were waiving her fee, and she just had to select that she had a waiver on the Common App. Pretty sure she selected something on the Common App.
Oh, my DD has a decent ACT, we went to offsite information session and attended the open house but never received anything… may be DD just forgot. A problem of showing too much interest LOL
Oh, no, mine went to 2 on campus events. What I meant is she didnt contact them specifically for a fee waiver. That’s what I meant.
My son visited the campus, visited the CW booth at college fairs and spoke in length, felt like he had a good interview, and has a 35 on his ACT, GPA 4.0. So he will send his grades, write the essay, and fill out the form. He already sent a letter saying that CW is on the top of his list ,which it actually is. He applied for 2 engineering scholarships. He has also overcome LD’s in reading and writing going from 15% testing to a 12 on the writing portion of the ACT and a 5 on his last AP English class last year. Is taking all AP’s and college credit courses. Not much more he can do.
Hopefully that should be enough for RD decision acceptance.
I am bummed for our kids who are great students, who really love Case as a top 3 or better school on their lists, and who were deferred! When my D was writing her update essay on the weekend, it was nutty to me. We just weren’t expecting a deferral. She applied for 4 scholarships. 1 asked for an uploaded resume, but the other 3 were real essays. Hope it works out for her and others.
After the deferral, my son applied to more schools than we had expected to. He would have not if he was accepted to CW. We will see what may come from this. My son will write his essay this weekend.
I went back to check DD’s all email from case. No, they didn’t send us fee waiver.
Go figure. They send us a waiver and defer EA.
Same @ambkeegan ! hahaha
But remember, for all colleges (not just case), to get a better ranking, they have to be more selective (application waivers lower the bar to applying, so more applicants, so more selectivity) and they have to have a better yield (ratio of admitted to matriculation)…
This explains some of the factors that go into admissions at Case Western. 13% of the freshman class last year
are first generation college students, so neither parent attended college. Also this post makes geography seem important to CWRU admissions. They want a geographically diverse class. There are few seats in small private selective colleges so its a bit of a crap shoot, only about 1250 spots in the freshman class, versus many thousands at a state college, that admits by stats alone. When one adds in racial diversity, gender diversity, its getting to be pretty selective I believe. While it gets glossed over, I am certain Case Western wants major diversity, as it states there are 61 majors in last year’s freshman class. But I do not think that changing one’s life goals to get into Case Western is a good idea. Be honest and apply to a range of schools. Do not get your heart set on low probability private schools.
I think its important to realize that at its heart Western Reserve College, was a liberal arts college, with liberal arts tradition going back to 1824. It merged with Case Institute of Tech in 1967. So those "Western Reserve"departments have strong faculty and need students. Case Western is not and does not want to be “an engineering college” although those departments are strong too. Some students exhibit diverse interests that fit Case, others may be better fits at a more techy focused school. Case Western’s president was a law professor and she keeps the focus on humanities and social sciences very strong.
Here is the early history of CWRU, named after the Western Reserve of Connecticut and Case Institute of Tech.
Western Reserve College was founded in 1826 in Hudson, Ohio, about 30 miles southeast of Cleveland. The college—the first in northern Ohio—took its name from the surrounding region (known at that time as the Western Reserve of Connecticut) and emphasized standards, such as the classics, in its curriculum. Yet it stood out in the mid- and late-19th century as one of only a few institutions that sought innovation and embraced the sciences. By 1887, the college had begun hiring forward-thinking scientists, including Edward E. Morley, best known for his collaboration with fellow professor Albert Michelson on the Michelson-Morley Experiment, which inspired Albert Einstein’s work in relativity.
Read more here:
http://case.edu/about/history.html
Students that have interest in the classics will be a fit at CWRU, and there are a lot of double majors in
humanities and another field. Phi Beta Kappa is a big organization at CWRU because its NOT an engineering college.
Fee waivers are just attempts at boosting applications and they serve the purpose of getting students to apply that otherwise may not have because of income or geography. Because these waivers are given names like “priority” or “select” people are lead to believe they are on the fast track for acceptance when they actually carry no weight at all.
That’s why my son liked it so much. He wants to major in engineering and still has a passion for philosophy. History. English. He is taking 3 AP history courses this year. One being self study.
I thought it was due to his 35 ACT score.
I am rooting for him @ambkeegan!
@ambkeegan My son has same thing and no fee waiver but admitted EA.
No fee waiver in our case, and gotten a very good package from merit scholarship. We will visit the school for the 1st time late in March and decide. It is pretty much down to CWRU and UMich at this stage. Our son also put in an application to CMU and JH (RD in both) as the very high reach schools, and we have written either off at this stage. We know UMich campus very well and CWRU will be the 1st time to visit. Right now, we are leaning towards CWRU due to the CoA plus our son want to go to a school different from his siblings.