@Marble321 I noticed that you have a lot of negative things to say about CWRU. I appreciate you offering your perspective, but what is up with commenting on 6 different threads, some dating back to 2010??? Why don’t you just write one review?
Why not also explain a little bit about your background. I would like to know how you have done there as a student. What is your major? Or someone who dropped out? I must say it looks like you have a real anger issue in the way you are responding to so many really old threads. As the parent of an incoming freshman, I do not know much about CWRU and really just discovered the school recently. I want to learn more. But, I just have some serious doubts about your credibility from the way you are attacking the school on so many levels. It looks like you just joined college confidential today, is that correct??? What motivated the decision to join and comment on all these old threads???
In terms of credibility, marble hasn’t said anything inaccurate as far as I can tell. I have not heard about the greek old exam sharing advantage thing but all other BME info is very accurate. The BME department at Case is not good and BME students have a very hard time getting jobs. EE or CS students are typically way more qualified for jobs that BMEs want. The CE info is also spot on. The CE department recently or is about to lose it’s accreditation (don’t remember if it happened yet) and will probably be non existent in a few years.
Case has a strange culture. No matter how bad an issue gets people are strongly discouraged from talking about it outside of student/staff circles. Students feel that they want to make Case look good for prospies so that the university can continue to look good. No joke I have actually heard this said numerous times.
In terms of making myself look credible, I will give you a very checkable fact. Case’s CS department has one of the smallest faculties of any department in the entire school despite being one of the largest majors in the school (i think it’s 3rd or 4th). Literally none of the visiting faculty, Secondary faculty, or Emeritus faculty are CS people.
The problem is so bad that core classes are being cut, CS professors are expected to teach around 3 classes a semester, students are having a hard time finding electives, and non-CS students are getting kicked out of CS classes they want to take. I’ve walked down the hallway and heard professors arguing about which class is the least harmful to students if they have to cut it. The administration won’t listen to the problem, so it is only getting worse.
@ohiokid1234 Thank you for your response. I have seen many comments by you over the last year since I started following CC and have always found them helpful. While my daughter is not likely to major in BME or CS the information you provide is good to know.
The specific information about those programs was not what really had me questioning the credibility of @marbles321, it was more that he joined CC at 5:40 PM yesterday, and then he commented on ten (10) old threads starting at 5:47 pm until 9:20 pm. His comments seemed to me to get progressively more negative in tone, ending with the accusation that one frat house was responsible for seven (7) rapes last semester. This seemed really over the top to me… and if it is true something that the NY Times would be interested in.
One thing to keep in mind about BME, is in that field a masters or PhD degree is needed to learn the specialties of either the DNA side or the medical device side of things! . Its a dense major with both engineering and science content, and students in Biological or biomedical engineering at MIT and GT also cannot get jobs with a bachelors in BME. So it may not be CWRU’s program, its the major that is way over saturated with students who are afraid they cannot get admitted to medical school and want a backup plan “be an engineer”. I think its more about the fact that students are very misguided and they should in most cases focus on EE or mechanical engineering , then decide, does electrosurgery even interest them? Or do they want to design CARS?!!! Its not CWRU’s fault that the major is over saturated by scared premedical students and that there are too few jobs in the field for bachelors level BMEs. Most BMEs should be either premed OR electrical or mechanical engineers for the best engineering options out there. BME is NOT a good undergraduate major, because its too specialized.
As the parent of a student considering Case for CompE for this coming fall, I’m also concerned about what @ohiokid1234 wrote. Does anyone have any further information?
As far as the comments about computer science at CWRU. I have heard the same exact comments about Cal Poly, U of Illinois and many other CS programs. ALL ARE OVERSUBSCRIBED. MIT does not cut CS classes though, but its a real trick to get in there. CWRU is fine for CS. Yes its over subscribed major, but get over it. Even Yale University has 8 openings for CS faculty. I heard that in at FIRST World competition in St. Louis in April 2015. If Yale is struggling to hire CS faculty, you bet CWRU is too.
Everyone loves to bash administrators. CWRU is average to above average in my opinion for administration. If there are no PhDs with CS around to hire, how can CWRU hire one? I think that the joint facility for doctors, dentists and engineers is cool at CWRU. Every school has very crowded classrooms today, as the cost of college education rises. Yes professor grumble about teaching six classes a year, thats a pretty heavy load but my friend at UC San Diego
is DOING THAT TOO. Its not just CWRU. Undergraduates have no perspective on things so they complain. Ignore that, visit CWRU and make up your mind. Its a great school, with strong faculty and Cleveland is the same as Cambridge MA for age, weather and great music and art.
Yes, I agree it is true that CS is very saturated right now at many, many universities, but the comment by ohiokid1234 was regarding Computer Engineering, not CS.
I am a BME student graduating in the Spring of 2016. The negativity is in part because just last week there was a cheating scandal in the BME department and it has not been yet addressed correctly.
Also the Sigma Epsilon rapes did happen on campus in a house on hessler that a good friend of mine lives next to. Greek life has put Sigma Ep under membership review for these cases and is responding in turn. The membership review was posted across all of the Case student run newspapers. I have just skimmed the daily’s website for this story but it’s not coming up. Case is very good at making sure stuff like that migrates to the bottom.
To counterbalance this, I went to Case parties as a freshmen and never had a problem since I knew how to tell a guy to get lost. Those who are deeply ingrained in the Case party system and the Case greek life are more susceptible to this.
Also Greek Life does have exam banks which give their community an advantage over the average student. I have seen this in multiple BME core classes. As I said last time. I would’ve gone greek just for this advantage if I had known.
I wanted to clarify my statement above about Case parties. Most of the sexual abuse cases on campus are of the intoxication variety. I have not seen any scary sexual abuse cases. Most are due to friends getting drunk at parties and then not clarifying with each other during sex.
There really is no source about the CE department that is publicly available. It’s not like Case wants to make any of this information public. Most likely Case will quietly shut down the CE program soon.