<p>Taw19-
I'm sorry you had such a bad impression of Case. I am currently a freshman here, and your impression couldn't be further from the truth! I have had an awesome first year. We are definitely not dead! Yes, Case does have a small population of people who study all of the time, but that is not the majority. Yeah, we are dedicated to learning, but we also have a good time! I agree with Moc. Stay overnight! That was what convinced me to go to Case. I was between Dartmouth and here.</p>
<p>I stayed overnight and LOVED IT! I was accepted into Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, but I think I will enroll at Case. For my intended major (BME), Case is ranked #6. Northwestern is #8 and the other two aren't even ranked (and they're ivies!). I love Case for it's urban environment and diversity of people (you have CIM and CIA right next door). It is a smaller school and the professors really do give you attention from what I hear. In addition, the class sizes are really small compared to what you would get at a much larger institution. The student-faculty ratio is 7:1, I believe.</p>
<p>As for the high acceptance rate, I agree with what most of the people here have to say. What kinds of students apply to Case? The kind who know what they want and are willing to work for it. Who even knows about Case? The people who need to. Graduate schools and big companies know about Case. In fact, 100% of the engineering and business graduates earn a salary higher than the national median.</p>
<p>I'm so flipping in love with Case. I should just send in my commitment and deposit now LOL.</p>
<p>If anybody has any questions, feel free to ask me. I know I'm still a high school senior, but I can help out with applications, admissions, and why I will choose Case in 10 days =P</p>
<p>swimmerkp - what turned you off about dartmouth? i have to make a similar case v. dartmouth decision.</p>
<p>also, does anyone know if case students can get free music lessons from CIM, without having to major/minor in music?</p>
<p>As someone who's decided to attend, I'm thrilled by you've said! Because it's why Case first caught my eye. People don't go to case for prestige for the most part (even as a native ohioan a lot of people have only heard of it, and aren't sure where it is)</p>
<p>how hard are the pre-med classes? is it reasonable to expect a gpa above 3.6? how many hours are spent on doing work per night? sorry, these are just some of the questions i have.</p>
<p>Don't expect anything. Case is hard, no doubt about it. It depends on how hard you are willing to work. I know people who have gotten 4.0 there first semester (quite a few of them) and my one friend only got one B (in his SAGES class). If you know how to balance your work and focus, you should be fine.</p>
<p>My friend who is an accounting major has about 4-8 hrs of hw/wk while the engineering and hard science majors tell me they have about 3-5 hours a day (but I think that may include studying? I'm not sure).</p>
<p>As for teh 3.6? Don't expect it unless you are willing to put for the time and effort. Premed has never been easy and a 3.6 in college is hard, period.</p>
<p>3.6 in the premed curriculum is not impossible, but it definitely takes hard work and dedication, and to be honest anything less than 3.6 gpa in the premed program is probably pointless since a gpa lower than that probably won't get you into med school.
I think like 70% of our premeds get into med school which means doing well in the pre-med program is very possible.
I'm and engineer so Im not speaking first hand here, but my roommate is premed, hes in the PPSP program in fact, so I get most of this second hand from him.
I spend about 10 hrs a week doing HW. I don't really study unless I have a test coming up. My premed roommate does probably about a solid 15-20 hrs a week doing HW and studying.</p>
<p>Simply put becoming a doctor is hard no matter where you go.</p>
<p>S--my understanding is that music lessons are available from CIS profs OR STUDENTS, but that you will have to pay for them...I believe that you must audition to find out if you will get to be taught by one of their profs???</p>
<p>My daughter is a Soph at Case and is in the Symphonic Winds...It is open to anyone (you just audition for chair placement). She loves it. She was first-chair in her extremely competitive High School band, and enjoys the level of difficulty and playing ability that she has found here (even in an open class that does not require an audition!)...</p>
<p>I just came back from my CAse(and UMich) visit and i LOVED case! I plan on officially enrolling tonight...i'm sooo excited lol.</p>
<p>S- I went to one of Dartmouth's admitted student things-I forget what they call it- and stayed a couple days on campus. Don't get me wrong, Dartmouth is a great school, but it wasn't the school for me. These are just my feelings about it. It's obviously in a very rural setting, not much around. The students didn't impress me as very committed to academics. I also didn't feel like I had the access to money that it woudl take to fit in with the Dartmouth crowd. I got a merit scholarship from Case, but an equal-sized need-based package from Dartmouth, which could have changed. I felt like Case was a great fit for me, and it was!!</p>
<p>The funny thing about swimmerkp is that it cost about the same to go to Dartmouth as it does to go to Case. </p>
<p><a href="http://admission.case.edu/admissions/finaid/undergraduateCosts.asp%5B/url%5D">http://admission.case.edu/admissions/finaid/undergraduateCosts.asp</a>
<a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/apply/generalinfo/tuition/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/apply/generalinfo/tuition/index.html</a></p>
<p>I think we're just more down to earth at Case.</p>
<p>I literally can't wait to go to case! :p It's definitely motivating me in these final weeks :p</p>
<p>I already started talking to one of the excited kids from here on Facebook. Now *that's *crazy.</p>
<p>hahaha thats me!!! i just made that connection</p>
<p>I think we are online way too much. Or at least on CC... and Facebook. But I'm on spring break!!</p>
<p>lol, my spring break is over...but my classes are winding down anyways which basically means almost 0 homework per night :-D</p>
<p>oh who am i kidding..i'm such a loser hehe</p>
<p>celebrian -
glad to hear you will be attending - I think you will love it!</p>