Wake Forest and how it's viewed, especially in NC
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Anonymous
This sounds clever to someone oos, but it isn’t a stigma here. It’s just Carolina or UNC. No one cares. |
Anonymous
| Seems like way too many kids from single Carolina high schools go to UNC. Wonder about in-state selectivity. |
Anonymous
Not true, rumored to be top whatever percent. They spread the wealth and elite schools where all are qualified lose. Many schools are huge in some areas and most that get in go so the numbers sound large. |
Anonymous
Except I believe they’re only playing each other once next year unless they met in the tournament. Does sound like you’re in the Wolfpack if you didn’t know this news that the ACC redid the basketball schedule. Came out about a week ago. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like your from UNC at Chapel Hill. |
Anonymous
Closer on what way, clearly not academically? |
Anonymous
This is true (or at least it was back when I was looking at UNC). As such, there's a pretty significant variety in the quality of students attending UNC. It's comparatively easier to get into Chapel Hill from say, Richmond or Perquimans County (poor, rural, lower stats) than it is from say, Forsyth or Wake County (wealthier, more urban, higher stats). That's central to the mission of the public college: to educate people from across the state. So that 41% in-state admissions rate doesn't tell the whole story; it's lower in some areas of the state and higher in others. Compare that to Wake Forest, which doesn't face those restrictions/obligations. A typical Wake class is going to have kids that are almost all very smart but not brilliant, most will come from upper middle class to wealthy homes from all over the country (although mostly from the South and Northeast). Class sizes will be smaller, dorms nicer, campus better maintained. But full pay COA is $95k at Wake versus $28k at Carolina. It's no wonder many families choose UNC. |
Anonymous
You're gaslighting. That doesn't make any sense. 18 and 24 are very close. 24 and 91 are not. Rice and Emory have similar SAT scores as well 1530 vs 1510 respectively. I don't understand why you guys have this incessant need to elevate mediocre schools. Not every school can be elite. |
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That's so interesting how opinion swung in 15 years or so! I'm also from Winston and I did graduate from Wake almost 30 years ago (wow). I think it definitely, at that time, was considered more academic than UNC. I was a morehead finalist at UNC. I also received merit $$ at Wake (in fact, a specific scholarship for students from NC). But they are two totally different schools - size, culture, student body. But not to tear down the academic ability of students who got into UNC - you had to be in the top of your class to get in there and it was quite competitive.
I know during my time at Wake the Greek % at Wake went way up. In fact, I probably would not have applied/gone based on the Greek % swing from the time I was in high school till I graduated - I was independent and my closest friends were, too. And the $tution $$ for Wake really grew even while I was there and now is crazy, so I probably would not have been able to go a few years later - very middle/working class family. It is funny b/c I get the "rich kid" Wake vibe from DCUM, but don't know as much about how it is perceived locally to WS now. One of my kids is interested in Wake just for his sport.
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Anonymous
+1, but pp might mean culturally, which I still wouldn't agree with. Rice and Emory have quirky student bodies, Emory a bit wealthier. But SMU grads have a very big chip on their shoulder (wealth will do that) so the delusions of grandeur makes sense. Rice does name Emory as a peer in the DOE survey and both have a 4.2 reputation score on US news. SMU is closer to Howard maybe Mercer. |
Anonymous
You still can’t spell. SMH |
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Duke is the top private university in NC
Chapel Hill the top public Davidson the top private liberal arts Wake ranks somewhere below all three, but above Elon etc (State is where you go for engineering) |
Anonymous
Nothing about SMU signals class or prestige. Just a bunch of gauche nepo babies. Not in the stratosphere of any top school. |
Anonymous
| NC has a stare law requiring that at least 80% of UNC's freshman class are from within the state. |
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The only student I know who went to Wake treated college as “finishing school”. Fits all the stereotypes mentioned so far: WASP, Southern, preppy, smart and great student but not intellectual, wealthy but not at all flashy about it, Greek life essential, great social skills
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