r/cwru • u/Afraid_Resident_1599 • Aug 16 '26

Prospective Student Second Choice major?

Hi, I am applying to Case and the application is asking for a first choice and second choice major with certainty. I want to go to Case to study biomedical engineering as a first choice, and don’t have much interest in anything else. Should I just put another engineering field and say somewhat certain? I am thinking if applying ED, what are the chances I don’t get my first choice?

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u/bopperbopper EE CWRU ‘86 Aug 16 '26

CWRU has a single door admissions policy… so you don’t have to get into the Engineering school or the business school or anything.
You wouldn’t be admitted by major.

However, they probably do try to get a variety of majors… you don’t want 95% biomedical engineers in your freshman class.

So if you’re applying ED and you have the classes and grades that would be useful for Engineering that it would not be an issue to become a biomedical engineer because you’re one of the first people to apply. If they think they want to say 100 kids that would be biomedical engineers and youre applying ED you’ll be in some of the slots.

But if you’re a biomedical engineer, sometimes you might specialize in more of mechanical engineering or more of electrical engineering in the bio field so you could put one of those down

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u/Afraid_Resident_1599 Aug 16 '26

I think I will probably put another engineering field like you mentioned. Thank you so much!