You are right. D25 received second version -
"If you wish to remain a candidate for admission to Case Western Reserve, you may choose to either pursue admission through the binding Early Decision II application plan or non-binding Regular Decision application plan.
If you know Case Western Reserve is your first-choice university, you can choose to be considered for Early Decision II admission. As an Early Decision II applicant, you will be considered in this context: Students who have Case Western Reserve as their first choice are valued for the particular enthusiasm and commitment they bring to our community. We begin notifying ED II applicants on Jan. 8 and continue to do so within two weeks of receiving a completed application. Please note, Early Decision agreements and midyear grades (first semester or first trimester) will be required for applications to be considered complete. Early Decision II applicants are typically either admitted or denied admission, rather than being deferred or offered a place on the wait list.
You can choose Regular Decision admission and receive an admission decision around March 27. As a Regular Decision candidate, you may at that time be admitted, denied or offered a place on the wait list.
Students who are admitted under either of these decision plans remain eligible for financial aid and merit scholarships. We meet 100% of demonstrated financial need for all admitted students, regardless of their admission plan."
Received the same letter as yours. It is very confusing. Is the admission guaranteed if we apply ED2? The ED2 decision date is unlike the regular ED2 decision which is mid of Feb. There is no word on scholarship amount. Do they still offer any scholarship amount if we commit ED2. All the other Early action results are expected to come around last week of Jan or Mid of Feb. They want us to commit by then.
Received same email. Upsetting. If we are willing to convert to ED2, the decision will be Jan 8. How can that be so soon? Donāt they have to evaluate carefully again or they just want to accept ED1 and ED2 applicants?
It sounds like they are basically offering admission and merit to this student, but in such a way that the student declining wonāt count against their yield.
The scattergram from our school clearly shows that they defer most of the high stat kids. This is a sample size of 350 applications over the last 3 years. The scattergram is really funny looking; there is a band of GPA and scores, below which they are rejected, and a band of GPA and scores, above which they are almost all deferred.
I would guess that your child is an extremely strong applicant and Case is likely assuming that your child would end up at a highly selective university.
How can one have a 4.27 UW?? Just curiousā¦ b/c typically GPA max is 4.0 for UW and then QPA is where one can get 4.98 or 5.34 W (i.e. weigthed Aās)
Congrats to those accepted!!! Our S25 deferred 1460SAT / 4.0GPA / 4.9 QPA / IB diploma / ECās / etc. ā¦ visited once but thatās it from demonstrated interest.
Probably unable to demonstrate more b/c his high school blocks firewalls emails that go to himā¦ Iāve read before that the interest thing is big for CWRU ā¦ so with this son we tried to have him show more interest to see if it helped for EAā¦ alas it did not.
I seem to see so many deferrals, some acceptances but very few who got denied? I wonder what percentage of the EA applicants were deferred? It seems quite high! After thinking long and hard, my son has decided to take his chance during regular decision as we canāt get there for a visit in the next two weeks.
Meant to post yesterday, but my daughter was accepted! Here are her stats for those who may be interested: GPA 4.4, 1480SAT, 7Aps, heavy business curicculum and started her own business. $30K in merit offered.
In the purest senseā¦ 4.0 means all Aās on a GPA scale. Period. (i.e. even if a school does A+ gets 4.3 that is inherent weightingā¦ so my kiddo for example 98% is A+ and an A+ is worth 4.0 and an A worth 3.8).
QPA is quality point average whereby additional weighting comes in for Honors/ IB etc.
In the purest sense (from several in admissions collegiate level and GC high school)ā¦ without weighting for H/AP/IB if get max scoreā¦ then best best one can be is 4.0 UW. But, youāve educated me nonetheless!!!
CWRU alum hereā¦ but the rep is an āivy wannabeā from 1986ā¦ so we are new to this era of high stat kiddos being rejectedā¦ but it seems like they are hyper aware of yield and not being slandered in the rankings. For example when I went there they were top 25 in the nation and now I believe they fall out of the top 50.
Anywhoā¦ I love CWRU ā¦ theyāve made my life amazingly betterā¦ and my sonsā life better yetā¦ but it seems the EA is just a way to funnel kiddos to EA2 to then force an EA1/2 for higher yield.
Oddly enough, considering half my life savings is willed to CWRUā¦ they need not play such games. Although, if they donāt accept my son in RD, Iāll be changing my estate planning. Ha.
Iām sorry to those who were deferred. It sounds like in a lot of cases if you decide to go ED2 you will be accepted. (Essentially proving itās your first choice). Itās a complicated game. My son was accepted, he had applied for electrical engineering with a 1510 sat, 4.0 UW with 9 AP classes. His electives were all music based (band, orchestra, music production ) as he wants to go in to engineering in the music field. He is also a swimmer.
I will say that he was recently offered admission to Ga Tech which is in state for us, so free tuition. So he will be accepting that offer instead. They offer a very niche program in music engineering that has been his first choice for a few years. That was his reach school so he was very excited to get in.
One dynamic is that for those of us in the south, CWRU sends their EA acceptances quite late. My son and all his friends had heard back from almost every other EA school already, but I know the south has an early start to the school year.
He would have done another round of apps over break if he didnāt get into any. We had held off on the options that were likely to be too expensive (wonāt qualify for aid). but thankfully his college search is over and we are very blessed. Best of luck to all still searching !
Congratulations to your son on the GT acceptance! My older son attends CWRU and is a polymer engineering major but my younger S24 is very interested in that GT music engineering program.
I am a bit more forgiving of schools that practice yield management than some others on CC. School administrations need a good fix on how many students they accept will matriculate so they can plan housing, classroom assignments, professors, etc. During COVID madness, Purdue had way more accepted students matriculate and they were caught short on housing and instructors, which was a bit of a goat rodeo.