What kind of aid, if any, can I expect from Case Western?

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<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>I need a school that I can count on for financial aid, do you think Case Western could help me with that?</p>

<p>Rank: 5/ 550 people (Very Competitive)
GPA: 4.7 (out of 4 due to weighting)
Class load: hardest possible no doubt!
ACT: 29 ( trying to improve for september, but please consider me as a candidate with this act score for now) </p>

<p>ECs: </p>

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<p>Editor-in-chief of School Paper - first junior to become one in a long time, I am absolutely certain that the newspaper advisor will write me a first class recommendation. I am also the first EIC to serve for two years in a row! </p>

<p>Question: Our school paper won a national award from Columbia University (silver crown) during my time this year as EIC, is something I should mention? This award is not directed to me specifically but more to our entire paper. I think it's appealing as it is an award recognizing the top few papers internationally and is from Columbia itself. </p>

<p>Founder and manager of newspaper website </p>

<p>Awarded Outstanding web-designer by IU </p>

<p>Write for other community papers as well, including our cultural one.</p>

<p>Many essay competition awards; won 1st place in state for a newspaper article I wrote. That same article won 4th place nationally at another competition (which I will not list here for security reasons as you can easily look me up) </p>

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<p>History Fair 3rd Place in State/Metro scholarship Winner/ National Qualifier (Alternate) </p>

<p>History Fair Executive Director's award for Superior History </p>

<p>Internship at congressman office summer before junior year </p>

<p>Attended Illini Girls State</p>

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<p>Founder/President of an Indian community service council for students (we help out at various community festivals, represent the youth, currently planning a cultural show and a trip abroad to India)
***Currently collaborating to make this an "international student" effort meaning students of all cultures create a joint effort. </p>

<p>State Cultural Pageant winner (first runner up) and miss talent </p>

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<p>500+ volunteer service hours through hospital volunteering (the usual lol), tutoring, after school enrichment program helping for younger children, etc. etc. </p>

<p>Math Honor Society President</p>

<p>Founder and manager of MHS website (to submit service hours, updates on events, etc) </p>

<p>National Honor Society </p>

<p>French Honor Society </p>

<p>DECA state winner</p>

<p>I have several other ECs but I feel that these are my main ones and the ones that I am most proud to be involved in! However, as you can see my goal was to essentially divide my interests in three areas: writing/publishing, Politics/History, Indian Culture. Then of course, this is all accompanied by the usual honor societies and community service. </p>

<p>While I am certain I can increase my ACT score by September as I have this asmy biggest commitment for the summer, I would like you to evaluate my chances for this fall!</p>

<p>Recommendations – My counselor especially told me I am her “top junior” and will receive a “stellar” recommendation, and I am certain that the same will apply to my Newspaper Advisor/English teacher who has seen megrow extensively since freshman year. Also, would it be advisable to receive some sort of letter confirming the legitimacy of my internship at the Congressman’s office? I don’t want to give off any sort of impression that it was received through connections and whatnot since it most certainly was not! </p>

<p>Thanks for your advice!</p>

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<p>A school you can count on for aid? You’re not going to know for sure before you apply that you can get but, I would think that you would get at least a Provost scholarship.</p>

<p>Couple thoughts:
-Case’s financial need-based aid is awful. Pretty much all loans because most scholarships money is pumped into merit scholarships, which is good if your parents income can vary widely year to year and you need to know that you will get a fixed amount of money
-Tuition at Case, as is true of many schools, goes up every year and merit scholarships usually do not (unless you are one of the handful of students qwho gets full-tuition scholarships, I’ve never met anyone who has one)</p>

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<p>I definietly won’t qualify for need-based aid, I was looking for merit aid.</p>

<p>I guess this leads me to another question since I am not too familar with how selective Case is…what are my chances of getting in?</p>

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<p>I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t get it with some sort of scholarship, just can’t tell exactly how much it would be.</p>

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<p>From the general bulletin 2006-2009 (may be a little old)</p>

<p>I get the impression that merit aid is primarily numbers-based. Your class rank is good, but unfortunately your ACT is probably a little low.</p>

<p>Best wishes.</p>

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<p>Dad’o’2: Thanks for the reference, people ask this all the time, I didn’t actually know there were specific score cutoffs.</p>

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<p>I didn’t know about the score cutoffs either, but as a student entering in Fall 2007 with a 34 ACT/1520 SAT (minus the writing), I only got a Provost’s scholarship. Lesson? Apply early!!!</p>

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<p>Were you in the top 10% of your HS class?</p>

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<p>Yes, I want to say I was top 7% but it was so long ago I don’t remember…</p>

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<p>You may be right about applying early, then.</p>

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<p>weird - I didn’t apply to Case’s scholarship, but I got President’s Scholarship ($22500 per year). Does that usually happen?</p>

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<p>I don’t think there is a separate scholarship application…</p>

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<p>Applicants are considered for the Trustees, Presidents, Provosts and Adelbert Alumnus, Warren E. Rupp Engineering, Plain Dealer Charities, Andrew and Eleanor Squire, Alexander A. Treuhaft Memorial, scholarships automatically. There are other scholarships that require applications.
Information on all Case scholarships can be found here.</p>

<p>[url=<a href=“Undergraduate Admission”>Undergraduate Admission]Scholarships[/url</a>]</p>

<p>I think the criteria must have changed a bit for the scholarships listed in post #5.</p>

<p>DS received the Trustees Scholarship and is no higher than the top 15% in his class, although had an excellent SAT1 (1580/1600; 2290/2400). This is the best F/A package we’ve received so far, especially since we expect no need based aid from anywhere.</p>

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<p>“Thanks for the reference, people ask this all the time, I didn’t actually know there were specific score cutoffs” - I think I read somewhere in other threads that they don’t use precise score cutoffs anymore. </p>

<p>But truly Case does seem to offer a lot of merit aid compared to other schools. It can’t hurt to apply Early Action… then you’ll know early in the game what kind of deal you have.</p>

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<p>ultramarine, the same thing happened to me as well, except I’m definitely not even top 20% in my school (as I didn’t get Cum Laude due to my poor freshman and sophomore grades)…honestly, I’m probably more like at the 25% mark. I go to an extremely competitive private school in Atlanta where basically the top 30 or 35 percent go to ivies and duke, schools like that, so the class rank doesn’t really mean as much I guess. It also probably helps that we don’t formally use class rank other than to determine Cum Laude, so schools don’t see a ranking.</p>