<p>Rochester and Case are indeed peers. They both belong in the University Athletic Association NCAA Division III. A conference that includes Rochester, Case, Emory, NYU, Chicago, CMU, WUSTL and Brandeis. These are schools that compete with each other all the time and the conference was formed because they were seeking schools of their peers to compete with.</p>
<p>I really do not understand the bashing of Case on this post. In my opinion, Case is better than NYU for UNDERGRAD. The school has a student to faculty ratio of 9:1. The same as Rochester and Brandeis and better than NYU’s 11:1 (even tho this is insignificant). It has much focus on undergrads, something that I think NYU cannot really claim that they are better than. The school is a heaven for health sciences and premeds because of the close proximity to the great medical school and the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals(which is in the same undergrad campus with the medical school). They also have one of the best BME programs in the Nation. </p>
<p>Yes NYU has great grad programs. But having been in college and knowing what I know now about big state universities and small liberal arts schools, the quality of graduate programs is hardly an accurate measure of the kind of education an UNDERGRAD will receive from a university. I am convinced that any reputable program, WITH excellent undergraduate students can educate anybody greatly and then send them off to those great graduate programs.</p>
<p>Even though Case has higher admission rate than NYU and Rochester, that does not mean anything. Compare the statistics of the students that do enroll in the three schools, you will notice that they are essentially the same. </p>
<p>I keep up with Rochester’s president’s updates on the University, when ever he mentions peer Universities that the school compares themselves to, Case is amongst them. He actually uses the whole UAA.</p>
<p>Also to answer the person above me. Case’s Medical school is actually very renowned. More so than Rochester’s AND NYU’s.</p>