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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Case Western [/quote]

What Case does is more, they have a yield problem.  Not that many want to be in Cleveland.  And yes, they do end up with a lot of people who wanted T25 schools but didn't get in.  Case uses merit to entice you as well.  They want to make offers to students who want them.  That's their job.  So you must show demonstrated interest, especially if you are above the 80% for stats, otherwise they might assume you are "applying just because" and most likely will attend elsewhere.  But if you show interest, you can get accepted.  My 1520, 3.98UW/10 AP kid got accepted (female, engineering) and got the top Merit award.  ($42K/year).

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How much would it be then per year including housing?[/quote]

You can search and find the current costs.  This was 2 years ago.  So instead of $85K, it would have been 43K.  Instead we are paying $90K (fully funded 529 and not a financial issues for us).  But if we had been searching merit, that was our best choice and a damn good one if your budget is $30-35K (in state) easily and willing to stretch. [/quote]

I have a CWRU freshman. He got $35k /year in merit aid, which brings the yearly cost, tuition plus rm/board/fees to right around $50k. More than in-state in MD, but much more doable than full cost at Case or elsewhere. And so far he is really happy. 
Based on the data I’ve seen, if Case is yield protecting, they are pretty bad at it. They are clearly competing with very highly ranked schools for their students, and don’t have the cache of the Ivys. They do have a lot of really smart, motivated students. My kid is really happy so far. [/quote]

Case is phenomenally good at yield protection. What they do is, in RD they put the kids who they suspect are out of their league on the waitlist, but also tell them that if they get in off the waitlist they’ll get a big merit award. Then, after they confirm that a kid will say yes, they admit him. One by one. Low admissions rate. 100% yield. High-stats kids. Brilliant if infuriating system.

It comes up on here every spring, because the merit + waitlist combination confuses a lot of people. [/quote]

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