<p>Has anyone received their financial aid package yet?</p>
<p>When do they send them?</p>
<p>I think it's early april...but don't take my word for that one</p>
<p>D's came today, but I can't open it. For some reason it's addressed to her...</p>
<p>Mine came today (I got the Excellence in Humanities and Social Sciences Merit Award, $6,000 a year)</p>
<p>Good goin' CamKerr87! Where are you from? Is your merit award the Frederick Douglas & Susan B. Anthony corporate scholarship? Anyone else get their aid packages from UR?</p>
<p>Package arrived yesterday. Got 19k scholarship. Now we have to decide between CWRU and UR for BME. It looks case is better for BME. Case gave 18k. Can somebody comment on Case and UR</p>
<p>Can't go wrong with either Case or UR. "Better" is a relative term. Both Case and UR are elilte universities with great BME reputations. UR is in process of erecting a new building which will be used exclusively for BME, so obviously, they are serious about the future of the program. Bottom line is probably where does student feel most comfortable, and where does he/she feel they'll fit in best?</p>
<p>I'm from central/eastern Massachusetts, and I'm not sure if it's from the F. Douglass or Susan B. Anthony scholarship...it's just the University of Rochester Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences Award is all I know really.</p>
<p>DadcpBME: what scholarships did your son/daughter get from UR that amounted to $19k?</p>
<p>Harm Potter scholarship of 10k and a grant of 9k.</p>
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The schools are similar: heavy research universities. Both allow you to define the curriculum you want. Both allow you to get a Masters degree in 5 years in most programs. They both belong to the UUA conference (with CMU, NYU, UChicago, etc) Both are associated with music conservatories (Eastman & CIM).</p>
<p>Have you been to each campus? UR is isolated and self-contained; the buildings have a more consistent look. There isn't much within walking distance of campus. Case is in a busy area of a larger city, in the middle of a cultural park area. Both are down wind of the lake effect. :)</p>
<p>Something like 37% of the undergrads at Case are in engineering so there is a larger critical mass in the engineering field there. Is the BME program at UR ABET accredited?</p>
<p>The comment about Case not being associated w/ a hospital in the other thread is not correct. The Cleveland Clinic is ranked 3rd in the nation I think. If you poke around the Case web site you'll see that they spun off a start up company doing stem cell research, they have researchers making advances in the field of genetics and cancer cells, etc.</p>
<p>BTW, have you seen the UR undergraduate research journal? impressive.</p>
<p>Hooray, I got $25K in grants.</p>
<h2>oops DadcpBME i posted a similar reply about UR vs CWRU in the other thread..all in all i chose UR over a lot of these similar CW-like universities due to the bubble campus (self-contained community of students similar to the other elite schools), the great future that I saw in UR with their spending money on a lot of various tihngs, and the wide variety of great programs just in case i was hit on the head with a block and suddenly turned into a humanities student or more interested in business or something haha, at CWRU there is a strong engineering presence as science being their stronger depts, and a subject-change might not be as wise there than it would be at UR. </h2>
<p>BME is ABET -accredited at UR btw</p>
<p>My son got a 14K grant and an 8K "Deans Scholarship"</p>
<p>Also a lot of loans. :( He got better deals from his other schools by far. Guess that is the last nail in the UR coffin.</p>
<p>yeah, I also got the "Dean's Scholarship" and I only got a 5k grant. It's really a shame because I wanted to go to UR, now I really don't know what I'm going to do.</p>