HS Sophomore Worried for Future

DadTwoGirls
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:37:44 +0000

I do not recall seeing Case Western vilified on this site. However, I have worked with a couple of people who graduated from Case Western and they spoke very highly about the school. They felt that they got a great education. Also, they were very good coworkers and I appreciated working with them.

There are a lot of very good universities. Case Western is definitely one of them. Ohio State is also very good, although much larger.

There are some people who are stuck on “prestige”. Most of them are still in high school. Harvard, MIT, and Stanford are very good universities but so are perhaps 200 or more other universities. There is very little and probably nothing that they are going to teach an undergraduate student at Harvard that you could not have learned at either Case Western or Ohio State. By the time that you get to my age (not young) you will have worked with people who graduated from several hundred universities (definitely not all of which are in the US) and you will know for sure that there are exceptionally good graduates who come from a very wide range of universities.

Any university is reasonably large (some more than others) and has a lot of professors, a lot of labs, a lot of classes, and a lot of different opportunities. Any university will have at least one bad professor. Any university will have many very good professors and very good classes and very good students. Someone can talk about a bad class that they had pretty much anywhere – it is still a great school for most students who are there for a very wide range of schools.

You appear to be doing very well. Strong students such as yourself will usually thrive when they get to a good university – you are what these universities are set up to help.

Think about what you want in a university. Do you want a large school or a mid sized school? Do you want to be in the middle of a big city or in a suburb or a smaller town? What are the various majors that you might consider and what subjects are you good at? Then figure out what your budget is, come back here to CC in a year, and lots of folks here can recommend many different schools.

If you want a very good moderate sized university in Ohio, Case Western is very likely to be one that people will be recommending.