Tell me about Wake Forest

[Anonymous]

Seems like a goldilocks school. Anyone with a student there now or recently who can fill me in?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Boring school for affluent Whites

[Anonymous]

More expensive than NYU while outcome is lesser when it's in the middle of nowhere.
Seriously WTF.

[Anonymous]

Apparently since Money Magazine only gave it 4.5 stars (out of 5) it’s overhyped and overrated.

[Anonymous]

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.

“Very poor” meaning kids whose families make 100k-175k

[Anonymous]

Gorgeous campus and I was so hoping it would be the Goldilocks school. It feels very, very preppy when you are there and there just isn't any diversity-- it doesn't just seem like an all white student body- all of students seemed to be carbon copies of each in look and style.

[Anonymous]

Beautiful Campus, excellent staff, professors, the food is amazing. My non-sport, non-white son loved it. Small enough to be able to really dig deep into the classes. The reputation of WF is worldwide. He had many job offers before he even graduated.
Highly recommend.

[Anonymous]

It’s 75% full pay and it shows.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wake is 47…so you mean in the top 47

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Now that having Pell kids is so important in the rankings…and the reason they dropped from T30

I am a Wake alum and enjoyed my time there. It was such a lovely place to spend my college years. It was a nice little bubble-gorgeous campus, small classes, great access to faculty. It was smaller and significantly cheaper in my time - they built up the campus and grew from 3600 students to well into the 5Ks now and it only cost about $20k/year all in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Now that having Pell kids is so important in the rankings…and the reason they dropped from T30

I am a Wake alum and enjoyed my time there. It was such a lovely place to spend my college years. It was a nice little bubble-gorgeous campus, small classes, great access to faculty. It was smaller and significantly cheaper in my time - they built up the campus and grew from 3600 students to well into the 5Ks now and it only cost about $20k/year all in.

Stop with the excuses…this is the problem when Wake comes up, so much crying.

Wake is 47…top 50 is great. It is what it is. Vandy, Emory and Duke somehow are all still top 25 (Duke top 10).

Wake also has far worse rankings if you look at WSJ or salary outcomes.

[Anonymous]

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.