<p>if you have been accepted, and decided to not attend...and why</p>
<p>Daughter was accepted. Not going to attend. Too little financial aid and based on things we’ve heard and read it is not worth the debt.</p>
<p>Same reasons as above. Do we have to send anything to case saying we wont be attending?</p>
<p>yes…you have to send a letter stating that you will not attend and which college you are going to</p>
<p>You don’t HAVE to either send a letter OR state which college you are attending. It would be courteous to either call or email admissions to advise them that you won’t be attending…and ONLY if you feel like it…why.</p>
<p>BrownPennLover: You started this thread but have not stated whether you are attending on not…and why.</p>
<p>99% sure I’m not - great merit, but location isn’t thrilling me and I just like my other options better.</p>
<p>@aglages i’m just finding a reason to not attend…since you might notice from my username, i didn’t get accepted to brown or penn (because if i did, i wouldn’t start this thread in the first place…i would just reject CWRU outright)…since people have been telling me that this school is, well, not as great as many others, i’m still not so sure…i think it has great academics, great faculty, and a pretty interesting area (can just easily watch LeBron James if i got tired of studying :P)…but people are still convincing me not to go…some of them attended and some of them just heard rumors…i’m gonna need some insights from prospective students</p>
<p>I think CWRU is a very good academic school that attracts a lot of serious students that were not accepted into the Ivies (including my daughter). The question for us was whether the entire “experience” at Case warranted the reportedly unnecessarily high work load and the large expense (even after generous merit aid). Obviously we thought not and my daughter will attend a different school that is “ranked” higher in her field of interest. That said, we really liked CWRU when we visited (last Summer) and it was one of my daughter’s top choices. Good luck.</p>
<p>There are cons to ever school, you just have to make sure they are outweighed by the pros. As far as wanting a more balanced view of Case, if you look at my history I have tried to give some pros and cons about Case, but I don’t want to put the cons only in this post not because the last 3-4 has been nothing but roses but because you might just not look at my other posts with the pros and I want you to get a balanced view.</p>
<p>@BrownPennLover: If you’re looking for an excuse not to go to a school you should think carefully about going there. 4 years is a long commitment if you’re going to be wishing you’re somewhere else the whole time. There are pros and cons to any school, if you just look for cons you’ll be sure to find them. I hope that didn’t come off as too harsh, but, and I’m not saying this is going to be you, but it’s a real waste when student are not happy at their school. College is an amazing experience, if you really wouldn’t be happy at a school you somehow feel obligated to attend or would be envious of other schools the whole time, do a year at your state school, get killer grades and then transfer to a school you could be happy at for a few years.</p>
<p>I am not going to attend.
Money.</p>
<p>Really all those rumors about Case are just that…rumors. You’ll meet students who either love it or hate it, it’s to be expected, but you truly won’t know what you want until you VISIT. I didn’t think I’d end up at Case, but I’m happy here. The professors are extremely approachable, there’s always an event and/or opportunity to have fun (yes I know it’s Cleveland), students really do look out for each other (competition is more internal than external), and rumors about the workload are false (it’s all about time management). I will admit, Case is probably more of an “academic” campus than most, so if you’re looking to party, you’re going to have to dig a bit. Overall it’s up to you. Choose a school because it feels right for you.</p>
<p>How many of you who are thinking about money (out of pocket) are comparing what colleges spend per student? </p>
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<p>See Similar Colleges comparison, Finance and Faculty tab, and the various columns such as Student Related Expenditures / Total FTE for how Case compares to whatever other college you are considering. </p>
<p>How much money from the college to the student begins to be worth a different figure from the family to the college?</p>
<p>Having spoken to a number of Case students, two things stand out as negatives…the workload seems extreme and nobody likes SAGES. However, the school is widely respected, especially for engineering, probably more so outside of academia…and that’s where the jobs are.</p>
<p>tokenadult: How many of us that are thinking about money (out of pocket) are comparing what colleges are costing us per student?</p>
<p>Everyone compares cost, and we have an option on the table much less expensive than Case, but are all colleges completely interchangeable? That’s what I’m trying to figure out, what quality differences are worth a difference in cost.</p>
<p>I haven’t visited yet, though it looks like a fine school. The only things I’ve heard about it is that the students are mostly nerdy, which I wouldn’t even necessarily have a problem with. I’m trying to decide if I should take the time to visit this week or just go to UB for a rediculously cheap price. CWR is highly ranked and seems to have plenty of research opportunities, but UB seems to be in a similar situation, except not private. I’m almost leaning towards the second option.</p>
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I’m sure the answer to this question is different for each of us.</p>
<p>Well, after two webinars I realized that Case has a lot more to offer my S - who seems committed to the humanities, so Case didn’t seem like such a great fit - so we decided to do the accepted student thing - complete with the overnight - just to be really thorough before we plunk a check down anywhere. So even though it didn’t originally seem like the right place, it may very well be. He’s visiting his top 3 and then will make his choice. I think each person knows by the feel of the fit which is the right place for them.</p>
<p>The admitted student day will convince you and your son either way…that was our experience. Freshman year is almost over and son has no regrets!</p>
<p>Good to hear, 2009ishere, because S loved it and, even though he still wants a few days to consider. I’m betting he will pick Case. Since all his options were of similar caliber but very different culturally and physically (1 rural very small (<2500) LAC, 1 mid-sized (~4K undergraduates and and 2K graduates) suburban about 30 min outside of Boston and Case, the “big” (~10K undergrads and grad students) urban school, it has been an interesting process. I don’t think either of us would have guessed he’d even really be considering Case over a small rural beautiful LAC when we started, and now Case seems to be the likely pick. And he was SO ready to send the check into the LAC as soon as he heard from them. I convinced him that we should go through the whole exercise. I’m sure he would have been quite happy there (as I was with their merit award vs what we got from Case) in the absence of taking the time to explore fully his top options. So it will cost more, be further away…hmmmmmm…I guess this is a good thing…</p>