Congratulations! You will love Case Western, its intellectual and accepting of all students, with a nice
mix of international students, students from the northeast, midwest and Texas, with a smattering from the western US.
Son attended Case 2013-1017 and just had a visitor who is a sorority member and a junior at Case visit me.
A lot of upper classmen cook either in off campus housing or in on campus suites with kitchens. There are a variety of cafeterias on both the main and south residential campus. You can use your dining points at a few other spots. The new Student Center sports a Zingermanns Coffee. Zingermanns is the best bakery from Ann Arbor Michigan, wonderful baked goods. Check out Little Italy and Presti’s Bakery too.
Cleveland Art Museum is walking distance and offers two dining options and one is a less expensive cafeteria
thats really good for some variety on food. Also your freshman writing seminar, called SAGES classes, will ask you to visit the Cleveland Art Museum for at least one assignment. Also you will be asked to do one or two service projects as part of the regular Case Western curriculum, its a great way to get out into the city and get to know it!
There is always a lecture or concert to attend, with Cleveland Institute of Music on campus, and those students
take their English, and general ed at Case Western, so there are a number of fine musicians in the area.
A few students will cross register at Cleveland State, but not that common for electrical engineers.
Electrical engineering program has a strong emphasis on control theory, which is really strong.
Cleveland Winters are much milder than upstate New York, and way less snow. It tends to sleet in Cleveland but
some winters are cold, if the midwest is getting arctic like weather. Winter of 2013/14 was very cold. Last three
winters were mild. Lake Erie has a warming effect on Cleveland so every day at about 5 pm, it warms up 5 to ten degrees. With that, be ready for wind, rain, and clouds for some part of the year. But its just not the heavy snows we expected at all. Fall is beautiful, Summer is totally amazing, not really that hot and lots of fun activities. Spring may be colder than you are used to but not too bad. There are microclimates so even five miles further from Lake Erie
gets more snow and cold. Buffalo gets buried in snow, by comparison.
Some dorms have air conditioning, my son lived at 115th Street suites for junior and senior year, with AC.
Greek life is both service oriented and social. You can live in a sorority for some of your time and decide to move
off campus when you are ready. I think its a pretty healthy mix of sororities that focus on service versus social life, so you will have a choice, according to my friend there.
On weekends my son and his friends went apple picking and ice skating, and also took the Healthline Bus into downtown Cleveland for going out to eat. West Side Market is a nice diversion on the train, its an indoor city market, thats fun to visit. CWRU students get a bus/train pass, and everyone learns to use the system to get around, Also you can buy discounted season tickets to Cleveland Orchestra which is walking distance from most dorms on campus. The downtown theaters are amazing, if your parents come into town, be sure to take in a Broadway play or Musical there.
One nice neighborhood some students live is Coventry, my son rented a duplex there , the summer he worked on a research project at Case Western.
Many but not all Sophomores live on a hill, called South Residential Campus, and there are some sororities up on this hill, and you can see Lake Erie from up there, and get to Little Italy easily.
A lot of upper classmen bring cars to Cleveland, but if you live far from Ohio, you may not need a car, as your friends will have one and that will help to get to a few activities where the busses and trains do not run.