Info About Life at Case

Nitric63
Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:35:04 +0000

The food at Clarkson wasn’t great but it wasn’t as bad at Case. They had half the number of students but twice the options for using meal swipes. The dorm building I was in at Clarkson had nicer rooms than here at Case but that was part of the early college program Clarkson had. I liked being at Clarkson a lot but that was mainly because of the rather unique people I was surrounded by in the early entrance program. The first year physics and chem professors were also quite good but other than that their chem department didn’t seem very good and all of my friends there were planning to leave.

I’ll admit that my view of Case won’t be universal but a lot of people do agree with me on it. There is a reason why it’s ranked as the 19th least happy by princeton review. There’s also a reason why Clarkson ranks as 6th least happy but I just was shielded from that by being surrounded by people I liked for that year.

I’m contemplating applying to Stanford, USC, and maybe Harvey Mudd(I got waitlisted last time I applied to HMC). I might not bother though. They’d all probably be a lot less irritating to me than Case but they’d also all cost more, be really far away from home, and Stanford and HMC probably won’t accept me anyway. The decision by Case to stick sophomores in the tiny southside rooms next year is really what tipped things for me. I’ve tolerated crappy dorms for nearly two years now and refuse to be stuck in crap like that for a third. If Case would let me live off campus I’d probably be willing to stay.