Wake forest--not sure you could get whiter or preppier

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Anonymous wrote:OP, can you please explain what is inherently wrong with white people to the extent an institution should have fewer of them? Thanks !

I’ll bite . I agree OPs comments about white washed are gross, but surely you understand that most people want some racial diversity ?

I'll respond. I completely disagree that "most" people "want" racial diversity. I think most young people would think that's fine if it exists and fine if it doesn't, so long as that happens organically due to self selection and not as a result of Klan infiltration. When I go to a NHL hockey game I don't sit around thinking, "this would be great if only there were more black fans!" Same with an alt country live music show or a Vermeer exhibit. Or Vermont.

Funny you should mention NHL games. The few games I’ve been to, I felt very uncomfortable because I was one of the few POC there.

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Anonymous wrote:Actual pictures of Wake students on the insta account from this past Thursday. Op seems quite off base.
https://imgur.com/a/D6NNSQj" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://imgur.com/a/D6NNSQj
https://imgur.com/a/1622ANO" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://imgur.com/a/1622ANO
https://imgur.com/a/wkW4Rxw

No comment on these op? Seems you must not actually be very observant as you didn’t get the student attire or diversity quite right.

Not OP but these are selectively posted pictures of kids running 21,000 laps for some sort of charity event.
It's not kids in their regular dress. It does't prove much of anything.

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Wake has always given major preppy vibes. I knew this even as a teen in Texas. Now that I have spent a ton of time in NC, I realize the white culture in that state is just really preppy, especially in Winston.

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Anonymous wrote:We visited this weekend. In a large auditorium of 100+ visiting families I bet there were 3 black families and zero Asians. We toured the campus--girls are beautiful, boys are "bros." My son loves this scene so he was in heaven. My daughter was turned off. the wealth was crazy-so many designer purses and $300 sneakers on the moms on the tour and on girls walking around. My kids attend the Cathedral schools so we're no strangers to wealth or preppiness but this was next level. Am I missing something? We literally saw ONE south Asian girl the entire day and she was prepped out (or as my daughter said "white-washed"). Was everyone else hiding in their dorms?

Wait so your white daughter was calling the one brown person she saw all day white-washed? Ma’am, you failed.

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Anonymous wrote:Actual pictures of Wake students on the insta account from this past Thursday. Op seems quite off base.
https://imgur.com/a/D6NNSQj" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://imgur.com/a/D6NNSQj
https://imgur.com/a/1622ANO" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://imgur.com/a/1622ANO
https://imgur.com/a/wkW4Rxw

No comment on these op? Seems you must not actually be very observant as you didn’t get the student attire or diversity quite right.

Not OP but these are selectively posted pictures of kids running 21,000 laps for some sort of charity event.
It's not kids in their regular dress. It does't prove much of anything.

It’s a goofy run walk, not an athletic event, and quite clearly confirms that about 1 in 3 students is non white. As does the rest of the feed. I don’t see any sign of preppy attire either.

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Anonymous wrote:What an unbelievably racist post. You’re such a hypocrite, OP.

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I don't think you can tell anything from a schools' marketing materials or their social media posts.

I grew up attending a school with about 5 black kids but they were all over every single thing they printed.
Same with my kids' private. It is a very white school but the Instagram reads like a a Benetton add from 1985.

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OP’s DD sounds like a real jerk.

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Anonymous wrote:OP’s DD sounds like a real jerk.

Sure does. Obviously NCS doesn’t do a good job training human beings.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think you can tell anything from a schools' marketing materials or their social media posts.

I grew up attending a school with about 5 black kids but they were all over every single thing they printed.
Same with my kids' private. It is a very white school but the Instagram reads like a a Benetton add from 1985.

It’s entirely consistent with the common data set that reports a third of Wake students are not white.

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Anonymous wrote:All the WF students and recent grads I know are wealthy conservative whites. I only know one who comes from a moderate liberal family.

My two cents: people pay a lot of money to wrap their snowflakes in a preppy bubble at WF. I think that’s weird.

That’s more a commentary on your circle than Wake. My left leaning daughter is very happy there.

It’s not a friends and family circle, pp.

My work provides a big network, and there’s a lot of interesting observations about affluent whites sending their kids south to affluent white bubbles.

I’m glad your kid is enjoying it.

But the thread is more about how odd some parents and students find a campus with a rich, white preppy vibe.

Ftr, I’m a bleeding heart liberal.

It’s not an affluent white bubble, how quick you are to discount a third of the student body.

Eh, at least some of the 7.5% Latinos probably appear white, rich, and preppy.

That leaves roughly 12.5% black and Asian plus 3+% who identify as mixed.

So, not a lot of noticeable diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:All the WF students and recent grads I know are wealthy conservative whites. I only know one who comes from a moderate liberal family.

My two cents: people pay a lot of money to wrap their snowflakes in a preppy bubble at WF. I think that’s weird.

That’s more a commentary on your circle than Wake. My left leaning daughter is very happy there.

It’s not a friends and family circle, pp.

My work provides a big network, and there’s a lot of interesting observations about affluent whites sending their kids south to affluent white bubbles.

I’m glad your kid is enjoying it.

But the thread is more about how odd some parents and students find a campus with a rich, white preppy vibe.

Ftr, I’m a bleeding heart liberal.

It’s not an affluent white bubble, how quick you are to discount a third of the student body.

Eh, at least some of the 7.5% Latinos probably appear white, rich, and preppy.

That leaves roughly 12.5% black and Asian plus 3+% who identify as mixed.

So, not a lot of noticeable diversity.

Wow, you are a weirdo. When the facts don’t agree with your perceptions, invent some new ones.

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Anonymous wrote:The college tours I’ve been on have been very white or white/asian. I think only a v small segment of the population can afford to take the time off work, travel, deal with other kids in the family, etc that it takes to tour a far-flung campus.

This was our experience at every east coast private college. The only diverse audience of prospective students we saw was at USC.

Try Howard.

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We toured Wake last year and agree it seemed like a bubble. More than skin color, what we noticed was that every kid seemed to dress identically and be very good looking! My kid felt it wasn’t their scene (and I was secretly pleased), but I could see why some kids love it.

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Anonymous wrote:I just checked the most recent CDS. 65% white.

So consistent with the percentage of white people in the US.