CASEs are offered in several disciplines during Orientation to test your level of preparedness and mastery against Cornell standards.

In this sense, CASEs tend to be better indicators of your subject mastery than AP exams, IB, GCE, or Cambridge Pre-University scores, which may not test for what Cornell expects you to know and how Cornell expects you to know it and apply it.

CASEs are designed to test the depth of knowledge in the entire range of material customarily covered in a particular course offered at Cornell.

Satisfactory performance on such an exam indicates that students already know what they would have learned if they had taken the Cornell course. Satisfactory performance on the AP exam, or qualifying IB, GCE, or Cambridge Pre-University scores, are not as strong when it comes to confirming that a student knows the entire range of material.

CASEs are meant to test your knowledge at the present time and therefore you do not need to study for them.

As such, Cornell does not provide any study materials for CASEs. Instead, you can prepare by reviewing your past assignments and test topics for the area that you'd like to take a CASE in.

The amount of advanced placement credit that you use may affect the degree of difficulty of your first term course material. Please consider the options carefully, err on the side of caution during your first semester, seek advice from Engineering Advising during the summer, and continue to communicate with Engineering Advising and your Faculty Advisor during and after orientation.

While you will pre-enroll in July, there is an add/drop period at the start of the Fall semester semester when you can adjust your courses.

View the Fall 2024 CASE Schedule