I applied BME for first choice and Economics for the second.
They don’t accept by major. If you’re accepted at all, you’ll be able to major in whatever you want.
My son took a lot of economics classes at CWRU but ultimately majored in math. Its common to double major in economics and math or econ and CS. The economics professors are strong, and there is research money to work at CWRU for the summer, if you write a research proposal. Some economics professors study the economics of drugs and other medical related economics. There is no PhD program in economics so the professors are focused on undergraduates. BME is quite a bit larger than the economics department. You might want to explore mechanical engineering ,polymer engineering and electrical engineering as much of BME is overlapped with these three fields. You can explore all these majors once you get to CWRU. Economics is in the college of business. BME has a number of weed out classes and somewhat large class size for CWRU, as its such a popular major right now. One needs to take Organic Chemistry and all the engineering requirements so its not as focused on design as mechanical engineering would be. Its hard to get a job with a BME bachelors degree, but some students do succeed. I think CWRU has close to 100% placement for its economics students, in banks, or economic think tanks, like The Analysis Group, or in PhD programs in economics or MBA programs.
“Intellectually diverse and academically flexible, Case Western Reserve’s single-door admission policy means CWRU students, no matter their major, are granted access to explore the university’s entire catalog of academic offerings across the schools of engineering, nursing and management as well as the College of Arts and Sciences.”
So it gives them an idea of your interest, but really you can major in what ever you want with out applying to, say, the engineering school or something.
@bopper BME is really popular at Case, so I thought that a population of many BME students was not ideal for them. That’s why I asked the question.
The computer science department has recently changed the CS major requirements to accommodate a recent increase in the number of CS students. I guess they prefer to do things like that rather than restricting people’s major choices.
@halcyonheather What are the new CS requirements? I don’t really want to do CS, but I’m just curious.
They are listed [url=<a href=“http://bulletin.case.edu/schoolofengineering/elecengcompsci/#ComputerScience%5Dhere%5B/url”>http://bulletin.case.edu/schoolofengineering/elecengcompsci/#ComputerScience]here[/url]. Mostly it’s just that there are fewer required classes and more room for electives.