Tell me about Wake Forest

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is full of very wealthy and very poor students. No merit, no middle to upper middle class. If you like those social dynamics go for it. It’s similar to Lehigh in that way. Beautiful campus, great academics, but a bubble.

They have merit: they have full coat of attendance scholarships worth $360k+. Only 20 some kids get them, but they do exist. They have some partial merit for arts and debate scholars, in addition. 75% of the ones awarded say yes. The rest go to a super elite/ivy. Wake is an excellent school. Their grads compete well and they have great grad/professional matriculation. Wake costs the same as every other private in the T30 and provides a great education. They are working on more pell grant kids: all top schools fight for these.

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?199847-Wake-Forest-University

Average cost $34,720
It is way more than other T30 and more than many T50 T60 privates, and it's in the middle of nowhere.
Salary outcome is also mediocre.

Hard pass unless rich White.

What about Asian?

I’m an alum and my daughter’s Asian best friend is transferring out of WFU after one year because she felt out of place (and she put in a ton of effort). The school has changed a lot in the last 10-15 years. Much more blonde and wealthy than when I attended.

I'm not sure that's true. The school has gotten less white over time and more economically diverse, but it started on a heavily blonde and wealthy foot. Maybe you didn't notice, because you fit in.

It’s also gotten far less southern. The largest block of students is from the northeast.

Let's be honest. It's a finishing school for rich kids who don't have the academic chops to go T20/30

You guys on this site are ranking obsessed idiots. How does it make sense that the school is for kids that don’t have the academic chops for top 30, when every kid at the school was accepted when the school was in the top 30. Wake has been in the top 30 for almost 3 decades, until last year’s relatively bizarre shift in ranking methodology.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a school for a certain type… smart, Caucasian, bro-y, fratty, country club kids. To me it’s as boring as white bread.

I live in Baltimore and about one third the kids I know from this area attending Wake are black (my child also goes to Wake).

I bet they are athletes. They were the only blacks I’ve seen on campus.

One is, the other six are not.