No, check your financial aid. Usually it is for 4 years. Check with the financial aid people.
We were offered if off the waitlist a scholarship and aid. The scholarship will not go away. Your aid can decrease if your income increases. Our income should increase but keeping the scholarship helps some. He will have to take the 5500 loans if he goes there after his freshman year.
@ambkeegan if your S is enrolled at CWRU and does well in engineering then he may be up for an alumni scholarship his junior/senior years. The amount varies to need and in the interview that will be addressed. Every little bit helps. In addition on-campus jobs are readily available and pay decently.
@ambkeegan I believe there are RA positions in some freshman dorms at Case, there are grader positions, and math TA positions that pay pretty well. My student worked for three of the four years, and worked in the summers, and also won the alumni awards in junior and senior year. The alumni awards have a need component to them. If there is no financial need, they are about $2000 a year, which covers tuition increases. There is also a Goldwater scholarship, for students thinking of applying to PhD programs later, hard to win, for juniors and seniors in the sciences. Its a national type award, but will get your student ready if he/she is thinking of a PhD. There are plenty of outside scholarships upper classmen as well, research that a bit, there are more for girls than boys though, from what I can tell.
@PpotEngrdr The one down side of Northwestern is division 1 sports for some students who do not
want all the excitement but prefer a more quiet environment, Case would be better than Northwestern.
Also, Cleveland is arguably more compact and friendly compared to Chicago. So Cleveland Orchestra,
almost up to Chicago Symphony standards, is walking distance for Case Students The tickets
cost $10 or $50 for an entire year of concerts. Case music students often play
one concert in Severence Hall, which is the âcarnegie hall of Clevelandâ. . Little Italy Cleveland? Walking
distance. Cleveland Fine Arts? Walking distance! Thats the beauty of Case, everything is close in
and the city is friendlier. Both windy cities, one a lot smaller, I think neither are âmistake on the lakeâ
anymore!
Northwestern does have a pretty well funded undergrad research program. Couple years ago, about 400 students were awarded grants totaling about $1 million. Thatâs not including the ones you tag along as part of the existing research projects (the more traditional kind). I compared Northwesternâs list of summer awards with JHUâs before and Northwesternâs was significantly longer. I guess it might have to do with the large endowment at Northwestern.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/03/taking-undergraduate-research-to-new-levels/
Whoever got financial aid for greater than $23,000 on waitlist is in great shape!!
@post, but that does not mean a student will get off of the waitlist. It may be a con against them actually because of the $ that CWRU knows theyâll have to come up with for that student. Is there another way to look at this situation that is more positive since I am a nay sayer at the moment? lol
Why do you say âthey are in great shapeâ if got offered package over $23,000 out of curiosity?
Our child got $56,000 and desperately wants to go Case, and we want him there, but with 6,000 on the waitlist this year, them bring up 1,300 spots, and him wanting the most popular major (Engineering), weâre less hopeful. He got 2 other incredible packages (Syracuse offered him even more so heâd pay $8,000 a year at a school that costs $10,000 more a year) BUT Case is his SOLID choice, particularly after spending 2 days there as an overnighter.
Please post if anyone gets an offer off the waitlist!We heard mid-April at the earliest but as late as June.
@travelingmomof12 A large number of waitlisted Case students do not get onto the waitlist in the past but that can vary year to year. I already know one accepted student who turned down Case for Vanderbilt. I know two more accepted students who are looking at UCLA versus Case and Cal Poly versus Case and undecided. I think the 6000 number makes it seem worse than it actually is, but it varies year to year.
Also if your child is undesignated engineering that may not be a disadvantage. BME and CS are the crowded majors. If your child is interested in a smaller department like Macromolecular Engineering, (study of polymer materials chemistry and engineering, and drug delivery platforms ) and tells Case of his interest, I wonder if that would help at all? Also look at Civil engineering. Since Case lets a student change majors with no restrictions, its not a disadvantage to show interest in a smaller department.
Case is now ranked at 50 for overall engineering, Syracuse is 75th. Case has a longer history of being strong in engineering, with Case Institute of Tech history.
Also if your child is in any special category, like first generation college, URM, or from an unusual geography, that could increase chances to get off a waitlist.
Anyone know the overall admissions statistics this year? CWRU put 9000+ on the WL last year and a fair number of kids did get pull from that WL. 6000 seems like a large number but I think CW is one of the schools where the WL is used extensively for enrollment management. Just attended the 2-day admitted students day, really like the school. Cleveland overall is ok- the offerings around University Circle are excellent - the two museums, the botanical garden, and the restaurants are decent as well.
Not yetâŠbut they did say at the NYC Admitted Students Reception this year that 26,000 students applied.
@Coloradomama my son is interested in electrical and computer engineering on the WL
@Mickey2Dad Cleveland Playhouse Square, which is closer to downtown is the largest performing arts complex outside of NYC.
http://www.playhousesquare.org/about-playhousesquare-main/about-playhousesquare
Its easy for Case students to get there on the Healthline Bus which runs up
and down Euclid Ave from Caseâs campus to many nice destinations in Cleveland.
. For all Case students, pubic transportation
is included in student fees. Some of the off Broadway style plays would be in a student budget.
Some of the most memorable Cleveland visits for us was taking in a musical at Playhouse Square with our student and his friends.
Cleveland really grew on us over the four years. Its easily navigable and students learn to to downtown after
they get used to the buses and trains. And sports are pretty fun, when the Cavs are winning, if your student stays a summer in Cleveland, there are big TV screens all over Cleveland to view the basketball playoffs. Ditto on Indians
and those games are affordable for students. Cavs may be out of student price range, but the Cleveland spirit spills over.
Donât miss the West Side Market, for a fun outing, Its a bit like Haymarket in Boston, a large fresh food market, with an indoor section for winter, on the train line that goes to the international airport:
http://westsidemarket.org
My son brought me to the Chocolate Bar in The Arcade Cleveland, also downtown. Its a nice shopping area
closer to Lake Erie and accessible by the Healthline Bus from Case:
http://www.theclevelandarcade.com
There are about five museums in University Circle, if you count the smaller one, MOCA, which is
a contemporary art museum on Euclid about two blocks from upper class housing on 115th Street,
with a great gift shop:
https://www.mocacleveland.org
And a funky car museum:
https://www.wrhs.org/research/crawford/
The Cleveland Museum of Art, over on the west side but walkable, is free every day for the public and Case uses this museum for educational exploration related to SAGES general education classes.
Case said they have let people in off the waitlist as early as 4/14. Anyone know if they plan on doing that this year?
I hope so. Has anyone wrote LOCIs??
@thewaitison I think that is up to how many students enroll/decline and when they do it.
Anyone accepted off the waitlist yet?
No, because Case says:
4) When would I hear if I am accepted off the waitlist?
Starting April 15, but offers are often extended in the final week of April and throughout the month of May.