Timelife

Interesting to hear your views from a first persons perspective gprime, thanks for sharing them

As a curious observer on the issue, I would appreciate it if you could shed some light on the following question regarding Case Western Reserve and its Political Sciences program:

Two US Presidents (Garfield, Hayes), the Prime Minister of Romania (Ciorbea), the President of Ecuador (Palacio) and a host of US Congressmen (the most recent of which was US presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich) have all been closely associated with Case Western Reserve as Alumni, Members of the Board, etc. Why do you think their Political Sciences and other Social Sciences programs are so weak? It seems to me that - given such respectable political pedigree - Case Western would be a decent place to pursue a Political Sciences degree.

I’m just curious. I've never attended Case Western Reserve as a student. I completed both my undergraduate and masters degrees elsewhere. But frankly what I’ve read in formal publications and heard from others who have studied at Case is vastly different than what I’ve read here.

Tiff90:

I hope that your parents recognize and respect your decision to attend Tulane. The decision is yours and yours alone to make. It's difficult when parents have such vicarious integration into their kid’s life that they fail to make judgments based on the direction their grown son or daughter wishes to take.

I've seen plenty of friends suffer from similar situations where their desires to attend certain universities or to enter a certain career were masked by their parent’s checkbook. In almost all of these situations when the parents got their way my friends were miserable. In fact one of my friends who went to a university his parents wanted him to attend over his own choice ended up getting a second Bachelors degree at the school of his choice afterwards. To this day he still feels that his first degree was a complete waste of time.