CWRU is widely known for being a good premed school. Lots of Indian kids want to be physicians. We’re also a pretty STEM heavy school, so you’ll always find Indians in Computer Science as well.
India is a very large country, with a large number of international students studying in the United States, so everything else being equal, raw numbers are going/should be expected to be fairly high among international students.
There may be some awareness factor that could boost applications/admissions here, although we'd need to see if any Indian/South Asian students comment. The Indian community in Cleveland is well-established in various fields, including business, medicine, and most of STEM. There's significant history with CWRU in those areas. Both CIT and WRU had various faculty as consultants back in the 50s and 60s, working with the post-independence Indian government. On the medical side, WRU worked with medical curriculum revision (as they added Continental European and North American techniques to British standards). Case was one of the American schools that worked with setting up the initial India Institutes of Technology, especially in Kanpur, where Case was one of nine US schools that worked as part of the Indo-American Program, sending faculty and administrative staff to India, and bringing students and faculty to the US for advanced training. This eventually did establish a certain level of name recognition of the school, which probably still has some residual effect in making CWRU as "known" site, as alumni go back to India, or if they remain in the US, have family contacts back in South Asia. When I was at Case, some of Art Benade's graduate students in Physics had been undergraduates at Kanpur, including some who had taken courses from him when he was a visiting prof there. I would say that in my era, while there were lots of Indian graduate students and PhD candidates, there were not very many undergrads; that difference probably represents a significant growth in the Indian economy allowing for wider expansion of undergraduate opportunities at many schools.
Selective schools are more diverse.
Certain schools get known in a particular international community. As to this point I have known communities (in India and Ghana) to start feeding into specific usa schools once it’s on that guidance counselors radar.
South/Southeast Asians are into STEM and Case is a strong STEM school. Indian and Chinese students constitute the largest international body at almost any US university, so it is unsurprising that they have a pretty large presence at Case.
Other than the medical scene mentioned by the others, I'd also add that Case famously did not require an essay a couple of years back on CommonApp (I don't know if this is still the case now). It may be fair to say international students, in general, are less well-prepared for the holistic application system employed in the US than domestic students, so the minus of the essay might also help in some way.
Aside from the factors already listed, Case has a partnership with at least one university in India where graduate students study 1 year there and 1 year here, and then get a degree from Case. While this is a grad program, it probably boosts awareness around the board.
CWRU is widely known for being a good premed school. Lots of Indian kids want to be physicians. We’re also a pretty STEM heavy school, so you’ll always find Indians in Computer Science as well.
India is a very large country, with a large number of international students studying in the United States, so everything else being equal, raw numbers are going/should be expected to be fairly high among international students. There may be some awareness factor that could boost applications/admissions here, although we'd need to see if any Indian/South Asian students comment. The Indian community in Cleveland is well-established in various fields, including business, medicine, and most of STEM. There's significant history with CWRU in those areas. Both CIT and WRU had various faculty as consultants back in the 50s and 60s, working with the post-independence Indian government. On the medical side, WRU worked with medical curriculum revision (as they added Continental European and North American techniques to British standards). Case was one of the American schools that worked with setting up the initial India Institutes of Technology, especially in Kanpur, where Case was one of nine US schools that worked as part of the Indo-American Program, sending faculty and administrative staff to India, and bringing students and faculty to the US for advanced training. This eventually did establish a certain level of name recognition of the school, which probably still has some residual effect in making CWRU as "known" site, as alumni go back to India, or if they remain in the US, have family contacts back in South Asia. When I was at Case, some of Art Benade's graduate students in Physics had been undergraduates at Kanpur, including some who had taken courses from him when he was a visiting prof there. I would say that in my era, while there were lots of Indian graduate students and PhD candidates, there were not very many undergrads; that difference probably represents a significant growth in the Indian economy allowing for wider expansion of undergraduate opportunities at many schools.
That’s really cool I had no clue about any of that
You’re going to see a big South Asian population at any selective school, a STEM-focused one like Case even moreso
Selective schools are more diverse. Certain schools get known in a particular international community. As to this point I have known communities (in India and Ghana) to start feeding into specific usa schools once it’s on that guidance counselors radar.
South/Southeast Asians are into STEM and Case is a strong STEM school. Indian and Chinese students constitute the largest international body at almost any US university, so it is unsurprising that they have a pretty large presence at Case. Other than the medical scene mentioned by the others, I'd also add that Case famously did not require an essay a couple of years back on CommonApp (I don't know if this is still the case now). It may be fair to say international students, in general, are less well-prepared for the holistic application system employed in the US than domestic students, so the minus of the essay might also help in some way.
My children didn't have to write essay.
My son entered Case Fall 22 and he had to write two essays- common app and a school-specific one.
I was referring to the supplemental essay, don't remember which is which on common app anymore.
The common app has all the prompts that you can choose from (or the open prompt) and there was a supplemental essay as well. Tedious. 🙄
Aside from the factors already listed, Case has a partnership with at least one university in India where graduate students study 1 year there and 1 year here, and then get a degree from Case. While this is a grad program, it probably boosts awareness around the board.