@thisismynameOH I haven’t received any notification regarding aid. When was this sent out?
@rlyoutofit got it Friday. Letter below. Looks like more communication due the end of this week or next.
Title was Estimated Financial Aid Package for Students on the Wait List
Thank you for your continued interest in Case Western Reserve University. We remain optimistic we will be able to offer admission to a number of qualified students from the wait list this spring.
Beginning April 1 and throughout the course of the spring, we will be in touch with you weekly via email to provide you with an opportunity to keep Case Western Reserve informed of your plans and your interest in remaining on the wait list. In order to make sure students have as much information as possible when deciding to accept a place on the wait list, we are providing estimated financial aid packages to students.
Should we be in a position to offer you admission from the wait list, you should expect to receive a financial aid package similar to what is listed below. Please note, an updated financial aid package will appear in your applicant status portal if you are offered admission from the wait list.
@thisismynameOH thank you for the info!
Do you know if this is only for financial aid or for both financial and merit aid?
A couple of weeks ago I received an email stating that they’d email this stuff on the week of March 28, so I thought it was interesting that they sent it out so early.
I haven’t received any messages from the school lately. I hope I’m not being too paranoid.
@rlyoutofit It had estimates that included both financial aid and merit aid
@thisismynameOH ah, I guess I’ll end up being the 25 percent of waitlisted students who don’t receive merit aid then
that’s a little disappointing 
the official waitlist email stated that waitlist acceptances could be as early as april 15th? Anyone know when the first “wave” of waitlist acceptances is? I think around the 28th of April was considered to be the “third wave”
If we choose the option " I want to remain on the waitlist. Case is my first choice." Is that binding?
If you don’t know, don’t check it. If you are questioning it, it must not be your first choice.
anyone know if anyone has been accepted off of the waitlist yet?
They didn’t take anyone off the Waitlist yet
Will they accept people off the Waitlist on 15th?
Case has been sending me an email every Friday at 4 am since April 1 to confirm my interest, and each time I listed Case as my top choice. This morning, I didn’t receive an email. Could this mean anything? Has anyone received an email?
Same here… Didn’t receive an e-mail this morning. I don’t know if this is good or bad…
@spiegel421 @mkd2020 I did not receive one either. Maybe a glitch in the system? Or they could be taking kids after school today.
I sent an e-mail to the Admission Office and they said that we would receive an e-mail regarding the wait-list later today. Also, they haven’t offered a place to anyone on the wait-list yet…@futur3clssof2o2o @spiegel421
Just got the Wait List Status Check #3 (11:26 AM EST). Did anyone else notice that they changed “Case Western Reserve University is my top choice” to “Case Western Reserve University is one of my top choices”?
yes, noticed that as well
I would imagine it would be based on when the admitted students either accept or turn Case down…if there are still many outstanding, they can’t offer anyone a spot.
As an alumni ambassador, I see no change in the status of my interviewed students who were admitted yet…so Case has to wait to see what they will do.
CWRU gets detailed treatment in today’s Washington Post story on wait lists.
The relevant part:
Case Western Reserve, a private university in Cleveland ranked 37th nationally, keeps an eye every year on the flow of students to higher-ranked private schools such as Northwestern, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon and Emory, as well as public universities such as Ohio State, Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech and the University of California at Berkeley. Those schools sometimes lure strong candidates away from Case Western.
“What happens there matters to us,” said Rick Bischoff, Case Western’s vice president for enrollment.
To ensure that the university hits its freshman enrollment target of 1,250, Case Western keeps one of the deepest wait lists in the country and uses it aggressively. The school invited more than 9,000 applicants to its wait list last year, and wound up with 5,119 names. Ultimately, it offered admission to 518 of those students. Not all accepted, but the school met its enrollment goal.
Bischoff said that it is vital not to admit too many students through regular admission. In 2012, the university overshot its enrollment target by 30 percent, leaving the school to scramble to find beds for hundreds of unexpected arrivals and to schedule more courses. “That’s bad,” Bischoff said.
Now, Case Western doles out regular-admission offers conservatively and plans on filling about 10 percent of its class through the wait list. Bischoff said that he starts making offers from the list in late April.
“We love our wait-list kids,” Bischoff said, noting that their academic profile is as strong or stronger than the overall entering class. “It’s not that these are sub-par students. These are terrific, terrific kids.”
When the school pulls from the wait list, he said, “we’re making some kids’ dreams come true.”
Has anyone received an offer yet?