FAQs from GRADUATE APPLICANTS
General Questions
Application and Application fee
University and Departmental Test and Score Requirements
Supplementary Materials
Review Process
General Questions top 1. Our faculty members cover a wide range of mathematical fields. To find out if a particular faculty member shares your field of interest please go here to our faculty web site links.
2. Yes, but most of our applicants apply for and are accepted for the fall semester.
3. The number of students admitted each year fluctuates depending upon several factors. These factors include but are not limited to: the amount of office space available and the departmental budget.
4. Case Western Reserve University is an equal opportunity organization. As such all students regardless of race, gender or religion are given the same opportunity.
5. General Guidelines are here: http://www.case.edu/provost/ugstudies/BS-MS.htm
Please stop in to see admissions secretary for further details.
6. Applied, or interdisciplinary, mathematics, concerns the development and implementation of mathematics and mathematical methods in other subjects, ranging from physics, engineering and computer technology through biology and medicine to economics and business.
7. The Math department does not offer tours. Meetings with the department chair can be arranged if sufficient advanced notice is given and if the chair is available. Also, the Department of Graduate study may be able to assist you.
Application and Application Fee
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8. The application fee is $50.00 and is nonrefundable.
9. The application fee cannot be waived for any reason.
10. No, the fee is considered part of the application. Your application will be considered incomplete if the fee is not received. Your application will not be reviewed unless it is complete.
11. If you apply on-line you must pay by credit card or electronic check. If you apply with a paper based application the fee may be paid by check or money order drawn on a U.S. bank only.
12. The fee may be paid by credit card or electronic check if applying on-line.
13. The application review process begins after January 15 for the fall semester. Applications will be accepted until final decisions have been made, usually some time in mid March.
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14. Use only the institution code 1105.
15. The University requires the TOEFL for all international applicants and the Department of Mathematics requires the GRE General test for all applicants.
16. Yes. The TOEFL is required by the University. If an applicant has a BA/BS degree or other qualifying degree from a certified english speaking university this requirement may be waived.
17. No. The University requires the TOEFL or the IELTS; the TSE is not acceptable.
18. Yes. Copies of test are acceptable, however if you are accepted your entry will be on the condition that original ETS scores are provided prior to the beginning of the school year.
19. No. Neither the University nor the Department requires taking the GRE Subject test.
20. No. The Department of Mathematics requires the GRE General test for all applicants.
21. The University requires a TOEFL written exam score to be above 550 or a computer based exam score to above 213 and a minimum iBT score of 79 . For GRE scores, the Department requires the quantitative portion to be well above 600 and the analytical writing should be at least 3.0. The IELTS minimum acceptable score is 6.5.
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22. You are required to identify all post-secondary educational institutions you have attended on your application form, and to submit an official transcript from each.
23. Three letters of recommendation must be submitted from those individuals sufficiently familiar with you, and who can assess your academic preparation, abilities and accomplishments.
Letters should be from your most recent instructors in your proposed field of study. If you have been out of school for several years, one letter may be from your employer, supervisor or other person familiar with your most recent activities.
24. Recommendation forms can be submitted online only for those students that applied online. There is no one internet or email address.
When you fill out an online application, you will choose whether or not to have each recommendation submitted online. If you choose "Yes" to the "recommend online?" question on the online app, an e-mail with a link and instructions on how to fill out the recommendation is sent directly to the recommender's e-mail address (which you will provide).
If you don't fill out an online application or don't choose to have the recommendation forms submitted electronically, the other option is for the professor to send the recommendations directly to you in a sealed envelope with his/her signature across the seal to forward to the university or they may send it directly to the department in a sealed envelope with his/her signature across the seal.
25. The colleges or universities should mail official transcripts directly to you to be submitted, unopened , with the application. (If that is against the institution's policy, the transcripts can be mailed directly to the program or department). If admitted while you are completing a degree, you must arrange to have the final transcript with degree posted sent directly to the School of Graduate Studies . Otherwise, send them to the department or program. All transcripts, or academic records, must be official documents. If not issued directly by the university as original documents, they should be notarized full-sized photocopies. Note to International Students: Documents in languages other than English must be accompanied by certified translations in English.
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26. The application review process, once begun, takes at least one month to complete. Most students will receive notification by late April.
27. If you are accepted you will be notified by the department via email and postal mail. The Department of Graduate Studies will send a formal acceptance letter via postal mail and email.
28. For questions about your individual status please contact the department's Graduate Admissions Secretary.
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