Did you recently visit Case Western Reserve University? Share your experience with the community! Post your review in the comments below.
Some ideas for what to share:
- When did you visit?
- Where did you stay? Would you recommend it?
- Where did you eat? Did you try any local specialties?
- How did you get there? What’s the best transportation mean to get to-from the campus?
- What was the campus vibe?
- What did you think of the dorms?
- What are some must-see things in or around campus?
- How were the school facilities?
- Did you like it more or less than you thought you would? Why?
- Did anything surprise you?
We’d love to hear any tips or recommendations you can share for people planning their CWR visit!
I visited the campus with my son two years ago when he was applying to engineering programs, and I have been back several times shuttling him to school. Here are my responses to the bullet points.
- We almost always stay at the Courtyard By Marriott, Cleveland Circle (2021 Cornell Rd.) The hotel is fine and the location is very convenient to campus.
- We’ve eaten in Little Italy a couple times and had great meals. My son and I both love The Chicken Ranch, which has the best chicken sandwich I have ever eaten. It is a haul from campus, but well worth it.
- We drove to campus. Depending on our plans, I’ll often leave the car at the Marriott since it is so close to campus.
- It is hard for me to get a read on the campus vibe since I only see students walking on the main drags to class.
- The dorms my son lived in both freshman and sophomore years were terrible. They were built in the 1960s or 70s, and they have not been well maintained or renovated. To paraphrase Rachel Chu from Crazy Rich Asians, like JFK dorms at Case are “just salmonella and despair”. On the plus side, they are building beautiful new dorm buildings next door to my son’s current dorm. There is also a new cafeteria/student union next to his dorm.
- Much of the culture in Cleveland is near Case. The Museum of Contemporary Art and Cleveland Art Institute are on Euclid Ave. on the NE side of campus. The Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland History Museum, and Crawford Auto Aviation Museum border the campus to the NW. The surrounding neighborhood is filled with restaurants. I think the school runs shuttles to downtown Cleveland.
- The school facilities are fine. Many of the buildings are old, but they have been maintained. The Sears Think Box is amazing. For a school with enrollment of around 6,000 undergrads the campus is pretty large and spread out. This is partly due to the location of the huge University Hospital complex basically cutting the campus in half.
- Case made my son’s list because it met his criteria for programs, distance from home, student support and outcomes. He considered it a target/safety, and it was not initially high on his list. After seeing the campus, however, he really liked it.
- He ultimately chose Case over two top 10 engineering schools that accepted him, which suprised us. I think of Case as a wanna-be Carnegie Mellon. It is similar in that it is located in a nice neighborhood of a rust belt city, is roughly the same size, and it is strong in many different fields. It is just not as highly ranked, well known, or resourced.
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