Wake Forest: need aware or need blind?

[Anonymous]

I see both on the internet, but can't find a definitive answer on Wake's site. Does anyone know? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

current parent here; need blind!

[Anonymous]

Current parent above is wrong. Need aware.

[Anonymous]

My guess is that if they don't brag about being need-blind, they're probably need-aware.

But I have no facts to back this up.

[Anonymous]

Without doing any research, I do recall WFU as being need-aware", but that may have changed over the past two years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:current parent here; need blind!

not according to their website: https://ride.wfu.edu/archive/campus-climate-implementation-team/admissions/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:current parent here; need blind!

not according to their website: https://ride.wfu.edu/archive/campus-climate-implementation-team/admissions/

That is from 2013: "We’ve gone from 19% underrepresented students in 2009 to 23.3% in 2013, ..." Anything more recent?

[Anonymous]

I just looked at the CDS and was surprised that only 24% of the first year class gets financial aid. It’s such an expensive school and over 75% are paying full price.

Also, it’s need aware.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at the CDS and was surprised that only 24% of the first year class gets financial aid. It’s such an expensive school and over 75% are paying full price.

Also, it’s need aware.

This is an example of why Wake, Vanderbilt, Tulane, etc. dropped in the USNWR rankings. These schools don’t have a lot of poor, first generation kids taking out Pell grants. However, they do offer a great education with small class size, professors with PHDs, lots of really smart kids with high stats. You need to decide what is important to your family when researching schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at the CDS and was surprised that only 24% of the first year class gets financial aid. It’s such an expensive school and over 75% are paying full price.

Also, it’s need aware.

This is an example of why Wake, Vanderbilt, Tulane, etc. dropped in the USNWR rankings. These schools don’t have a lot of poor, first generation kids taking out Pell grants. However, they do offer a great education with small class size, professors with PHDs, lots of really smart kids with high stats. You need to decide what is important to your family when researching schools.

Yes. My kid really liked Wake and is also applying to Vanderbilt and Tulane (visiting next month). I definitely understand and value things like terminal degrees and small class size. We are full pay.

I knew it was wealthy- I was just surprised that it was that wealthy.

[Anonymous]

That is insane. I was full pay in the 90s when it only cost $20K/year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at the CDS and was surprised that only 24% of the first year class gets financial aid. It’s such an expensive school and over 75% are paying full price.

Also, it’s need aware.

So 75% are paying $90K a year.


That's a lot of wealthy kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at the CDS and was surprised that only 24% of the first year class gets financial aid. It’s such an expensive school and over 75% are paying full price.

Also, it’s need aware.

So 75% are paying $90K a year.


That's a lot of wealthy kids.

It is pretty shocking. One thing that concerns me is that although we can pay full price (combination of saving for college and inheritance) my child will be trying to keep up with very wealthy kids. She already has expensive taste!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at the CDS and was surprised that only 24% of the first year class gets financial aid. It’s such an expensive school and over 75% are paying full price.

Also, it’s need aware.

So 75% are paying $90K a year.


That's a lot of wealthy kids.

It is pretty shocking. One thing that concerns me is that although we can pay full price (combination of saving for college and inheritance) my child will be trying to keep up with very wealthy kids. She already has expensive taste!

Hahaha! Trust me, she will not see the wealthy once on campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at the CDS and was surprised that only 24% of the first year class gets financial aid. It’s such an expensive school and over 75% are paying full price.

Also, it’s need aware.

So 75% are paying $90K a year.


That's a lot of wealthy kids.

It is pretty shocking. One thing that concerns me is that although we can pay full price (combination of saving for college and inheritance) my child will be trying to keep up with very wealthy kids. She already has expensive taste!

Hahaha! Trust me, she will not see the wealthy once on campus.

Um, I beg to differ. It isn't always clothes or accessories. It's the classmates who drive expensive cars and take expensive vacations. There was someone in one of the fraternities who crashed his mercedes while drunk and daddy bought the kid a new beamer to replace it. One of my classmates looked at me in horror when I revealed I spent my first couple years living in a trailer (a time I don't remember much about because I was 3 when we moved into a house with a big yard).