<p>Ok, so I know the big differences between dining points and CaseCash</p>
<p>Dining points-only useable on food, don't roll over between years, non refundable</p>
<p>Case Cash-useable at food and nonfood, roll over years, refundable</p>
<p>So I was wondering if there was any advantage to getting dining points over CaseCash, as Casecash appears better in every way</p>
<p>Yeah, basically the only benefit of dining points is that it costs slightly less. I would recommend the Case Cash option, as it is very nice to only have to carry your ID card rather than worry about having cash to eat out on the weekends (Case Cash is accepted at several resturaunts around Case in Little Italy and Coventry)...dining points can only be used at locations on campus (which have limited hours and not a huge selection).</p>
<p>thanks, actually, I was also wondering if anyone had a list of all the places that accept case cash</p>
<p>Ctheflute, or any other students or parents of students:</p>
<p>What dorm options are there for incoming Freshman? Coed vs single gender, etc? Are all the FR dorms pretty much the same as far as size, proximity to classes, noise level, etc? or are some better than others? what do you recommend?</p>
<p>Thanks for any advice.</p>
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<p>couldn't you also get casecash for the times you do want to eat off campus and get the dining points for the "typical" days?</p>
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couldn't you also get casecash for the times you do want to eat off campus and get the dining points for the "typical" days?
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<p>Yeah, when I visited there, I saw a lot of places slightly outside of campus that accepted casecash (Quiznos, etc.)</p>
<p>As a parent of a freshman at Case, I can answer some of your questions...</p>
<p>psatmadness--the dining plan covers the food that you eat in the dining hall--in addition to the meals in the dining hall, you get dining points or casecash...the difference between dining points and casecash is only about $30 a semester (casecash is more expensive). I think that having the option of eating off campus (using casecash) is really worth the extra cost...the food is good at Case, but everyone enjoys a break once in a while...plus, the casecash can be used at the local supermarket (or for books at the bookstore?)...The dining points expire at the end of each year, but unused casecash can be carried forward to the next year (and can be refunded when you leave??). Here is a link to where the casecash and dining points will be able to be used next year: <a href="http://www.cwru.edu/finadmin/security/auxiliary/locations0506.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.cwru.edu/finadmin/security/auxiliary/locations0506.htm</a>
Be sure that you look at information for 2005-2006, because this year the dining points could be used off campus...but that is changing next year.</p>
<p>WS17--Freshman are housed in Hitchcock, Norton, Pierce, Raymond, Sherman, Smith, Taft and Tyler Halls. All of the dorms are very close to each other on the North Residential campus...Most of the Upperclassmen used to live on the South Residential campus, but I believe since the new apartments will be open that they will close the South campus dorms to rehab the buildings--I believe they will reopen for grad students in a few years...</p>
<p>I don't remember being given a choice about which dorm my daughter would be assigned to, but she was given the option to live on a single gender floor..which she chose (she ended up in Tyler hall which she likes). I can't answer your question about personalities of the dorms, but the students do fill out a questionaire when applying for housing about whether they want their room to be social or for studying, so I don't know if they tend to put the social rooms together or not. This website is very helpful to see the differences of the dorms: <a href="http://studentaffairs.case.edu/living/facilities/nrvtour/%5B/url%5D">http://studentaffairs.case.edu/living/facilities/nrvtour/</a></p>