<p>FAFSA is what you and your parents fill out to determine financial need. Many students get NEED BASED financial aid, but many do not after filing their FAFSA with each college. FAFSA is not gov't grants. </p>
<p>I suggest you learn more about financial aid and how to apply no matter where you attend college. You are seriously uninformed about the process and how college is paid for.</p>
<p>FAFSA=Free Application for Federal Student Aid</p>
<p>website:
FAFSA</a> - Free Application for Federal Student Aid</p>
<p>My S (accepted EA) and I visited Case last August. Our experience at Case was a lot like the experience I had when I took his twin to Johns Hopkins. You drive in one side through very nice neighborhoods, drive out the other side through really not nice neighborhoods. S and I both thought the Case campus was great, way better than we thought it was going to be. The building that the engineering students hang out in is modern and well done, and the library and student union are very nice. That upperclassman dorm someone mentioned is beautiful, the other dorm we saw was unexciting but functional, however we've seen worse. </p>
<p>As much as Case talks up the area right around campus, we weren't impressed. Thought it was fine but not special. We might have missed some stuff though.</p>
<p>Perhaps you didn't drive through Little Italy, near South Village? </p>
<p>It's such an interesting area, I wouldn't mind living there! I keep meaning to take time to explore it more, but it seems we're always doing the drop-off and related errands with no time to spare.</p>
<p>I recommend:</p>
<p>eat lunch (or any meal) at Presti's and walk through a shop called La Bella Vita.</p>
<p>Presti's Bakery & Caf</p>
<p>Classes are a mixed bag. It depends on the teacher really. Some teachers are really easy, others are difficult. There is a lot of work though. </p>
<p>All the freshmen live together in the North Residential Village. </p>
<p>I would go to a different school...But I'm applying for transfer right now. It's a really good school, and with the increase in applicants, it will probably rise in the rankings. It's just not for me though.</p>
<p>WS17, my daughter, son, and I enthusiastically agree with your Presti's recommendation. At the conclusion of our tour at Case we asked our guide where we should eat lunch. He recommended a different restaurant across the street from Presti's, but the neighborhood was setting up for a festival the next day and all the other restaurants were closed. Presti's was the only place open. The three of us feasted on fantastic food with soft drinks for about $15. We followed that up with amazing pasteries and bought several pounds of an enormous variety of little cookies to bring home to friends (they were too irresistable to leave without buying some!).</p>
<p>If my daughter chooses to go to Case, I would love to try the restaurant the guide recommended; it must be fantastic if it's right across the street from Presti's and he recommended it over Presti's. In fact, I'd like to try all the restaurants in Cleveland's Little Italy. When I have the opportunity I'll start with WS17's other suggestions.</p>
<p>Schmoomcgoo, Presti's is informal and good for quick service, good quality, and low prices. I hope you can post the name of the other restaurant. Many times at night there is along wait at the restaurants. I liked the music CD selection at La Bella Vita. It's difficult to park in Little Italy, so park somewhere else; eg, there is a public garage under Severance Hall. </p>
<p>Other things I've done on visits is the Cleveland Orchestra (each concert is an education in itself IMO) and the Art Museum (caught the Monet collection when it was there). Case held their Freshman Parent presentations in the Natural History Museum 3 summers ago, as well as a dinner there under the dinosaurs. :) We took the tour of Cleveland set up for parents by Case, and the tour guide described University Circle as "a modern day Athens". :)</p>
<p>University</a> Circle Inc. </p>
<p>We try to stay at Glidden House for its location.</p>
<p>Cleveland</a> Museum of Natural History</p>
<p>The</a> Cleveland Museum of Art</p>
<p>The</a> Cleveland Orchestra</p>
<p>We feel we never have enough time there on each visit.</p>
<p>I really don't have any idea what the name of the restaurant was, unfortunately. I could find it again...but that doesn't help you!:rolleyes: Before I visited your Little Italy link I would have guessed it was something like Bella Luna, but there doesn't appear to be anything like that.</p>
<p>All your links are wonderful. I will send them to my daughter. It's a long story, but my daughter has wanted to move to Italy for years and Italian food is definitely her favorite type of food (and the rest of the family's too, for that matter, but she's ridiculously finicky, so it's her primary food). I hesitate to state in a public forum that CWRU is my first choice for my daughter for fear she will see it and choose another school, so I won't write that. :D It is an overall great fit for her and your links help to demonstrate that it's a better fit than even the school alone is.</p>
<p>Hey, do you happen to know if the school (or club at the school) ever plans day trips to Cedar Point amusement park on the weekends? That would be another selling point.:cool:</p>
<p>Cedar Point: not that I'm aware of, but thats a great idea. Hopefully one of the current students on here can answer that. I know of students w/ access to a car have gone there. Like any school, if a group of students propose a new club, the university will probably support it. </p>
<p>Case can have a small-school feel. For example, when moving our daughter into the Village last August, we met the new President of the university, Barbara</a> Snyder, who lived in the Village over the summer after coming from Ohio State. I would feel comfortable contacting any of the administrators at any time.</p>
<p>Schmoomcgoo: About the fit - thats an individual thing. In the end, your student has to do the work, live there, be able to make friends, feel comfortable as well as motivated, etc.</p>
<p>There are accepted student programs at all colleges, and hopefully your student can attend something like that and come away feeling good about their decision.</p>
<p>WS17 makes a great point about the accepted student weekends or visits. If you can make these, it will really help. My daughter who is now a jr at college re-visited three schools to which she had been accepted. The school she thought she liked the best after our first visit turned out to be the school she liked least. And the school she re-visited to kind of make sure she wasn't interested, she became more interested in after the second time. She ended up attending the third school which she had been interested in all along, but it was definitely a help. Kids change over their senior years and these programs are very valuable if you can take the time to go back and relook.</p>
<p>Why does Case not have an honor code, but rather the academic integrity board??? and how come case requires instructors to superview tests???</p>
<p>So anyone would answer this question?</p>
<p>I don't know that Case has specifically excluded the concept of having a university-wide academic honor code. There are a wide range of opinions among professors regarding any pedagogical concept, and I imagine that an honor code would be no different. The university has recently focused its cooperative efforts on the SAGES program - improving writing, comprehension, and communication skills. As a student member of a committee that has oversight over many programs at the university, I can see that there are more important things to occupy the administration's time than adopting a new honor code (why fix it if it ain't really broken). For instance, the long-outdated SOLAR course registration system has finally been replaced by a new system (effective for scheduling beginning in February!)</p>
<p>While most professors believe that their students are generally trustworthy, few wish to give students the opportunity to take advantage of them. Many professors allow note sheets or books during exams; others allow or encourage group-work on homework assignments and projects. Each professor's trust of the students develops and grows as they spend more time here. One of my professors came here from a large state school where cheating was prevalent and used 4 different versions of every exam to prevent cheating. After several years they realized that they were being somewhat paranoid and scaled back to reasonable cheating preventions - students are asked to sign a sheet on the cover of the exam stating it is their own work, a teaching assistant or professor is present during the exam to keep an eye out for suspicious behavior.</p>
<p>In many cases, having a proctored exam is helpful because the professor or teaching assistant is available to clarify questions or typos, get rid of an annoying person standing right outside the room yakking loudly on a cell phone, or even add information about questions (provide more constants, unit conversions, etc).</p>
<p>All the teachers are required to put Academic Honesty on their Syllabi.</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>I think what the Integrity Board is concerned with right now is that they want to get rid of Greek Testing Banks. I think it's a terrible idea, and there's really no way for them to regulate it anyways. I'm biased though.</p>
<p>Test banks will always exist, where ever there are students who have taken a course, and received their tests, there will be banks. Unless ALL profs stop returning tests.</p>
<p>Or if they give the tests back and collect them at the end of class.</p>