Case Western Reserve University
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Educational Quality | B- | Faculty Accessibility | D+ |
Useful Schoolwork | B+ | Excess Competition | C |
Academic Success | D+ | Creativity/ Innovation | B- |
Individual Value | F | University Resource Use | D- |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | B- | Friendliness | C |
Campus Maintenance | C | Social Life | D |
Surrounding City | D+ | Extra Curriculars | C+ |
Safety | C- | ||
Describes the student body as: Afraid, Approachable, Broken SpiritDescribes the faculty as: Friendly, Arrogant, Self Absorbed |
Lowest Rating Individual Value | F |
Highest Rating Useful Schoolwork | B+ |
Major: Biology (This Major's Salary over time)
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.