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Case has that clique mentality that you hope you would never have to deal with again after high school. There is so much talking about the students behind their backs. It is very uncomfortable to find a professor you just met who knows more information about you than they should. This such a common occurrence that no one complains anymore. Almost immediately, you discover if you are in the 'in' crowd with the professors, which determines how much assistance you'll receive from them. The worst part is that this is usually decided without your knowledge, very soon after you arrive on campus. The 2 or 3 students in every class who the professors actually spend time with usually love Case and everyone else hates it. The most successful students at Case are those who kiss a lot of butt. If you are simply a student who works hard and tries to get along with everyone, it will not be enough to be successful at Case. Everyone really does seem unhappy, both students and faculity, at Case. One visiting prospective student was told by about 7 Case students on a Greenie (campus bus system) that it would be a terrible mistake to come to Case. I am here because I got a great scholarship, but I realize that I should have transferred after my freshman year. I believe that most of the positive remarks are just people who realize that the value of their degree would be substaintially less if the truth about Case ever got out.
Campus Maintenance: A-, Surrounding City: D-
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1) Anything that even remotely has to do with "customer service" at Case tends to be terrible. The financial aid department has miscalculated my aid/loan numbers each and every semester I've attended the school, sometimes forcing me to find emergency loans at the last second. The offices of housing, registrar, financial aid, etc. are generally staffed by incompetent, clueless, and unmotivated work-study students who usually don't know how to help you with your problem (and have little desire to find out, to boot). If something pertaining to your registration, housing, financial aid, etc goes wrong while you're at Case, getting it properly resolved often becomes a long and irritating ordeal.

2) Academically speaking, Case is far more difficult than its reputation would suggest. It's really hard. As a pre-med, I often had to study 8-10+ hours a day to earn a mixture of As and Bs. Many people I met seemed to fare far worse.

3) Case heavily totes its undergraduate pre-med advising and research programs to applicants, but don't believe the hype. The research programs (SURF and SOURCE) only hand out a handful of research stipends to the class brown-nosers and sycophants; unless you're a great butt-kisser, your chances of getting any of these are nearly nil. Likewise, to get any meaningful research experience you usually have to personally persuade a prof to let you into his lab - a task that is far more difficult than it sounds. The pre-med advising isn't so great either.
Useful Schoolwork: B+, Individual Value: F
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The faculty are so miserable that during this past semester I have personal witness more than half of my instructor have an angry outburst at a student. Generally these 'fits' are directed at a minority or a student that the instructor wants to devalue.

For the amount of money paid to go to Case, the quality of the instructors is totally unreasonable. Many of the students complain all the time about how much they hate it here. There is intense pressure and competiveness to get good grades, but many of the students are so busy trying to get from one exam to the next that it seems they are not learning anything. I am not sure how many professors in the Business School have advanced degrees.

Case is just a really sad place. I could have pick another place to go to school. I wish that I had chosen a different.
Campus Maintenance: A, Collaboration/Competitive: D-
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This school will make you hate life.
Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Education Quality: F
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