Case Western Reserve University Top Questions

nerds study all the time never party

Nerdy Antisocial No attractive women

Unhappy overworked engineers who have nothing to do but study and write papers. That Case Students are all geeks who spend all of their time on the internet and have no social lives.

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Case is stereotyped at having the most unhappy students on a college campus. We also are stereotyped at not being a party school and having nerdy students.

Geeks, engineers, doesn't care about the humanities, "where the men are boys and the boys are weird," unattractive girls

That we're all science nerds and don't have a life.

The biggest stereotype about Case is that it's solely a technical/engineering/medical university. There's also a stereotype that the campus isn't very visually attractive and that there's isn't really a student life here. There's a perception that Case students just study all day and do nothing else.

Case attracts a fairly specific kind of student. Almost everyone here had applied to the best schools in the country, ivy-league and such, and often enough deserved the honor, but were turned down. Case is almost no-one's first choice. We are the academic second-rate: the nerds that could write as much software as they liked, but preferred World of Warcraft; the ambitious entrepreneurs that couldn't swing Harvard; the engineers who won their high school science fairs, but who didn't suit MIT for whatever reason. As such, there is only one universal sentiment among us, bitter. There are broad exceptions, of course. In the region, Case is one of the best, and local students are honored to come here, and there has been a recent push to try and attract more conventional collegiate students, but this is rarely a source of comfort to those who are already here. It's nothing less than galling to see someone who cares more about a frisbee than AJAX get a better grade in JAVA programming than you do.

overly bookish, unattractive, shut-ins, unusually intelligent, socially inept, gaming/technology-obsessed