Also in my experience case doesn’t have a lot of connections to industry in engineering. This makes finding a job tough.
Does anybody know how much it costs to join a fraternity? Not including living in the house.
Also, if there is a nursing student who can give their opinion that would be great.
Check out the following on Greek costs: https://students.case.edu/campus/greek/recruitment/factsheet.html
https://students.case.edu/campus/greek/recruitment/costs.html
Nursing…maybe make a new post and ask in this subforum and the nursing subforum.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/nursing-major/848769-information-on-case-westerns-nursing-program.html
@Rollout I hear about the nursing program at Case from my son’s friends. (He is a senior in math) Nursing is very rigorous and practical. There is a lot of time spent in actual patient care during the four years. The beginning does include changing bed pans, and focuses on all the tasks needed to learn good patient care. The new Case/Cleveland Clinic medical campus is scheduled to open in 2017, and will make the nursing program even better as it will consolidate dental, nursing and medical curriculums and patient care, and have some psychology/social worker programs too. Its a forward thinking medical education model, and located near Cleveland Clinic on Euclid, which is walking distance to campus. University Hospitals is on campus and nursing students are working there. I know a sophomore and a senior nursing student and they are both very happy. The sophomore is part of a sorority but lives in a south campus dorm, as the sorority house life does not appeal to her. The other is a senior living with physics and engineering students in the north campus housing. It seems this program will lead to a great job, the senior has offers on the west coast.
Here is one link to news about the new medical campus, across from Cleveland Clinic and just a bit south and west of the new Maltz performing arts center. Cleveland and Case are building a greenway between Maltz Performing Arts Center and the main campus as well, to make it easier to walk to this new medical center. There is a busy road, MLK running between campus and this new medical center.
Thank you @Coloradomama !
Just dropping by to say my D is loving every minute at CWRU. She’s a 3rd year Engineering major.
My S has finished his first semester. He loves it. He has a great roommate from the East Coast. He was part of two different research projects that will result in published papers and has already met a professor who has been a great mentor. Case is a bit more liberal than what he is used to–being from south Texas (all freshmen had to go through microaggression training before school started, for example)–but he is having a great college experience.
@bigred93 Mind if I ask how did he get to those research projects during his freshman year and what’s his major?
@JadeRock. I am a different CWRU parent. but I can comment. I know CWRU freshman that got research projects in polymer sciences, physics, engineering physics, aerospace engineering and materials science. Biomaterials and heath sciences including biomedical engineering are other fields with rich research programs at Case, but all the majors offer research work for undergrads. Your child can go onto individual Case Western professors websites and see if undergraduates are listed as part of the team. If they are, he/she can write directly to the professor and ask for a part time position. My son was able to win a SOURCE grant to do statistics research over one summer, with an econometrics professor after sophomore year at Case, and he also worked with a biophysics professor over that same summer.
Based on that summer on campus research experience he made a choice to major in math and physics, instead of economics, and he is doing his senior project with the physics professor and publish a paper already in an IEEE journal. He worked very closely with the Case faculty to learn the math techniques and meets him once a week for his senior project. Its been a very good experience, and my son got into three PHD graduate programs already based on his work at Case Western and a summer a math/physics REU at another large research university.
Several other Case Western students we know in materials science and polymer science are publishing papers as undergraduates with their professors. The student has to be motivated and make time for the research around social life, academics and sports. Case Western students are encouraged to apply for the Goldwater Scholarship which is for undergraduate juniors and seniors in the sciences and math.
CWRU are encouraged to apply for the DOD and NSF graduate fellowships as well. One friend of my sons, in polymer science, won the NSF three year graduate fellowship based on her Case Western research work, got into all her graduate programs and is doing chemical and biological engineering at U of Penn now.
This girl went to CWRU thinking she would become a doctor but her goal now is to become a chemical engineering professor. Case Western gives all the top students chances to teach recitations as juniors and seniors, for freshman math and science classes. Its a very good experience. You can PM me if you child wants suggestions on professors to contact in different fields.
I wish to chime in on CWRU freshman research. I have heard that at some State U, students would have to jump through hoops to get research opportunities.
At Case Western, it’s very easy to get into research.
In fact, on CWRU Macromolecular website, there is a course: EMAC 125. It’s a research class. Students sign up and the professor will match them up with graduate students for research. My D did research at CWRU during her freshman year and love it so much that she’s doing it again this semester ( a higher level researching class to prep her for her senior capstone and graduate school)…At CWRU, research opportunities are there. Professors encourage it. How are you going to learn if you don’t spend time in the lab researching?
I am so happy with Case Western Macromolecular Science and Engineering department. The faculty and the graduate students are God sent. They’re a helpful bunch. I also have heard Case Western’s Biomedical Engineering department is the same way, very welcoming.
Sorry, I am not familiar with the other departments to comment but I say overall, if a student is looking for research opportunity without having to compete for it, come to Case Western. It’s a small private school but huge in research.
@Coloradomama and @LanaHere thank you for the information! And I will definitely look for research opportunities wherever I go. The departments at Case sound very good.
Im definitely not applying to this school with the way you talked about women not wanting to hook up.
Wanting a serous relationship before intimacy does not make me a prude.
I hope my son gets into Case because he really loved it after the tour but I was a little concerned when I looked into the crime reports on their website. At least 2 students a month getting held up by gunpoint for their cell phones (last several months), and a lot of cars being broken into. Does this happen all the time or is this just a recent span of bad activity? Their alert system to other students looks to be really good but the gun thing really bothers me.
We live by University of Pittsburgh and CMU and don’t have that kind of crime.
My D has been on campus for 6 semesters now and nothing happened to her or her friends. Some of the report you have read are incidents that happened OFF campus, but because it’s either near campus or it happened to the students, CWRU always send out reports to alert the campus community. Nothing to hide.
@MSMead My daughter is a second semester senior- can’t believe four years have come and gone!- and she has never felt unsafe on or near campus. She and her friends are in the library until very late at night, walk to restaurants, and cross campus at all times of day and night…as with any quasi-urban campus you must use common sense and be aware of your surroundings. Campus security and local police are a constant presence. It is a very public and very busy campus and comes with inherent security concerns, but no more than any campus of similar size or proximity to an urban area. I think CWRU is overly vigilant in reporting attempted crime near campus, but in the four years my D has been there, no harm has been reported… As an aside, she loves Case and has been involved in so many social arenas, including Greek life, has participated in several research projects, and spent countless hours volunteering- including time spent at Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital and the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center. CWRU has met or exceeded every one of our expectations!
@MSMead Good luck to your son on admittance!
@Sdgal2 Thank you for the detailed analysis on campus safety. What other aspects met or exceeded your expectations?
Anyone get a likely letter?
So sorry. I have been off of the site for awhile and did not see your question. Like @Coloradomama and @LanaHere both stated, the research opportunities at Case are many. As LanaHere mentioned, my son actually enrolled in EMAC 125, which is a freshman level research class. It gives just one hour of credit, but that isn’t the reason to do it. My son was matched with a PhD candidate and then was invited by a professor to also join another research group because he had some skills that the current group lacked (they were a very smart group, but lacked communication skills). He is a macromolecular engineering/polymer science major. Case is arguably the best polymer science school in the world but they don’t have a ton of undergraduates in that engineering major so there are great opportunities.
I also want to expand on my earlier comment. There are a number of brilliant kids at any university, but if you cannot effectively communicate in front of a group, you are limiting yourself. The ability to communicate your ideas clearly to a variety of people is important and one that–not to stereotype–many engineering students can lack. So work to strengthen those skills and it will serve you well in any career.