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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to detail this but how is Vase if you are not engineering or premed? My DS is thinking Econ, maybe env science, Case has a super interesting sounding major called Origins but I’m not sure how marketable that would be.

Case seems like a good fit for my DS in a lot of respects, basically his friends are all the engineering and CS type kids and Case just sounds like what he’s looking for, but if it doesn’t work academically it doesn’t work. Trying to decide if it is worth a visit this summer.[/quote]

If he is thinking Econ what is his post graduation goal - grad school, IBanking, or other? It is definitely worth a visit to find out if the school can get him where he ultimately wants to go. Though it is always better to go when all the students are around - you can talk to students with similar interests and feel the general vive of the campus. [/quote]

Not clear yet but likely if he sticks with Econ, more likely to be grad school for a PhD or combining with something like environmental science to work in that space. He’s not set on Econ though and might be interested in something else. [/quote]

Richard Thaler 2017 Nobel winner in Economics and currently at UChicago is a Case alumni. This is off course not an evidence of any sort. However, if your DS' goal is to do research there are precedents of great outcomes even though Case may not be well known for economics.[/quote]

And case has spent the last decade working to improve their non-STEM/non-engineering/non-premed curriculum and attract more students to those areas.  [/quote]

+I think this is a needed investment.  A close friend's kid is in engineering at Case and really loves some aspects of the academics, but overall isn't happy there because though she is doing well academically, she feels she can never really get away from/a break from STEM. She feels like all the other areas are trivialized or "stem-ified" and that there's a very condescending attitude towards anything that isn't STEM.  She's transferring to UMD (in-state for her).  [/quote]It definately has a STEMy vibe.  My kid almost went---had over $40K merit/year offered.  But picked (at full pay of course) a similar school that is more balanced and less "stem nerdy"---more Humanities/social science majors and a school that encourages kids to take what they love to study and has no real core curriculum.  For my kid it was a much better fit.  
But would have been happy there---it is an amazing school.[/quote]

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