what's the difference btw William & Mary and Wake?

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

This is hilarious if you think the difference in medical school admissions would change because you did research at Wake rather than WM.

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Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal.

You just can't help yourself can you! Queen of strawmen

I don’t think you understand the meaning of the term. It’s objective data.

"It's objective data" I'm thinking *you* don't know what that means. Strawmanning is when you misrepresent someone's argument. Stop bringing up current stuff to make an argument about future ambitions.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

Thank you for this wonderful straw man argument that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment

Not remotely a straw man. It just shows how superficial your understanding of research is. William and Mary being R1 had very little value to my family when their total amount of research is still small and there is little in the area of interest to my student. If my kid was interested in marine science or education, William and Mary would be a better choice for them given its research strength in those area. For a premed kid, Wake offers significantly better research opportunities in their area of interest. Unlike total number of citations in scientific journals, these are inquiries families should be considering because they will have a direct impact on their kid’s academic experience.

It's a strawman because I was talking about the US news rankings and you're going on a whole side argument about personal value. Great! But who asked? I'm not a fan of the new ranking weights but Wake has made it pretty clear they aren't going to try to improve on them. https://about.wfu.edu/wake-forest-and-rankings/

That web page doesn’t support your statement at all. It is a great summary of wake’s strengths though.

Nature magazine, the preeminent peer reviewed scientific journal, ranks Wake 143rd for its research efforts and William and Mary 287th.

And like every other university, Wake continues to work on growing its research efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Quarter

Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined University strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News. We do not intend to start now.

seems pretty point and blank to me.

If you're going to keep deliberately ignoring/misinterpreting what I've said I'm really just wasting my time. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the future. And a different future requires many years of planning and thought and strategy. Pulling out current rankings like that somehow undermines that is just you being disingenuous.

You suggested that only William and Mary is interested in growing its research efforts. Wake, like nearly every other university in the country, has been doing that for decades and continues to do so, and is not focused on research for purposes of U.S. News ranking improvement. I suspect that William and Mary’s increased focus on research also has zilch to do with the U.S. News rankings and instead has more substantive underpinnings. Your arguments are literally nonsense.

Again another misread! Yikes lady. Can't find anything online about Wake looking to significantly boost research or try to go R1 or expand heavily outside of just the med scholl. If you have some stuff that counters that please send it our way, but this gaslighting is just ridiculous.

Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal. I gave you an entire wiki article about Winston Salem’s innovation corridor and Wake’s role in it. I previously mentioned that Wake has a brand new research faculty dedicated to undergraduate and medical school research and that there is fantastic opportunities for science undergrads to take classes with and work in labs run by medical school professors.

And if you ran a simple google search, here’s what else you would learn:

Key Research Growth & Investments
School of Medicine Expansion: The School of Medicine and Advocate Health are driving major research initiatives, highlighted by a new $ 100 million campaign to support studies in Alzheimer's, regenerative medicine, and diabetes.
Translational Focus: A new translational eye and vision research center has been launched, connecting researchers across the Advocate Health system.
Infrastructure Investment: The university is investing over $1 million in upgrading laboratory and learning spaces, with further campus master planning underway to support increased research activities.
Research Areas: Key focus areas include Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, and regenerative medicine.
Academic Upgrades: The university is planning a capital campaign set to culminate in 2034 to fund academic innovation and research, following a period of modest strategic undergraduate enrollment growth

I’m not the one gaslighting.

DP: thank you for the AI summary really great research there 🙄

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

Thank you for this wonderful straw man argument that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment

Not remotely a straw man. It just shows how superficial your understanding of research is. William and Mary being R1 had very little value to my family when their total amount of research is still small and there is little in the area of interest to my student. If my kid was interested in marine science or education, William and Mary would be a better choice for them given its research strength in those area. For a premed kid, Wake offers significantly better research opportunities in their area of interest. Unlike total number of citations in scientific journals, these are inquiries families should be considering because they will have a direct impact on their kid’s academic experience.

It's a strawman because I was talking about the US news rankings and you're going on a whole side argument about personal value. Great! But who asked? I'm not a fan of the new ranking weights but Wake has made it pretty clear they aren't going to try to improve on them. https://about.wfu.edu/wake-forest-and-rankings/

That web page doesn’t support your statement at all. It is a great summary of wake’s strengths though.

Nature magazine, the preeminent peer reviewed scientific journal, ranks Wake 143rd for its research efforts and William and Mary 287th.

And like every other university, Wake continues to work on growing its research efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Quarter

Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined University strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News. We do not intend to start now.

seems pretty point and blank to me.

If you're going to keep deliberately ignoring/misinterpreting what I've said I'm really just wasting my time. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the future. And a different future requires many years of planning and thought and strategy. Pulling out current rankings like that somehow undermines that is just you being disingenuous.

You suggested that only William and Mary is interested in growing its research efforts. Wake, like nearly every other university in the country, has been doing that for decades and continues to do so, and is not focused on research for purposes of U.S. News ranking improvement. I suspect that William and Mary’s increased focus on research also has zilch to do with the U.S. News rankings and instead has more substantive underpinnings. Your arguments are literally nonsense.

Again another misread! Yikes lady. Can't find anything online about Wake looking to significantly boost research or try to go R1 or expand heavily outside of just the med scholl. If you have some stuff that counters that please send it our way, but this gaslighting is just ridiculous.

Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal. I gave you an entire wiki article about Winston Salem’s innovation corridor and Wake’s role in it. I previously mentioned that Wake has a brand new research faculty dedicated to undergraduate and medical school research and that there is fantastic opportunities for science undergrads to take classes with and work in labs run by medical school professors.

And if you ran a simple google search, here’s what else you would learn:

Key Research Growth & Investments
School of Medicine Expansion: The School of Medicine and Advocate Health are driving major research initiatives, highlighted by a new $ 100 million campaign to support studies in Alzheimer's, regenerative medicine, and diabetes.
Translational Focus: A new translational eye and vision research center has been launched, connecting researchers across the Advocate Health system.
Infrastructure Investment: The university is investing over $1 million in upgrading laboratory and learning spaces, with further campus master planning underway to support increased research activities.
Research Areas: Key focus areas include Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, and regenerative medicine.
Academic Upgrades: The university is planning a capital campaign set to culminate in 2034 to fund academic innovation and research, following a period of modest strategic undergraduate enrollment growth

I’m not the one gaslighting.

DP: thank you for the AI summary really great research there 🙄

Well, pp said she was unable to find nothing anything at all about Wake’s research efforts. Apparently a basic file AI search is beyond her capabilities.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

Thank you for this wonderful straw man argument that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment

Not remotely a straw man. It just shows how superficial your understanding of research is. William and Mary being R1 had very little value to my family when their total amount of research is still small and there is little in the area of interest to my student. If my kid was interested in marine science or education, William and Mary would be a better choice for them given its research strength in those area. For a premed kid, Wake offers significantly better research opportunities in their area of interest. Unlike total number of citations in scientific journals, these are inquiries families should be considering because they will have a direct impact on their kid’s academic experience.

It's a strawman because I was talking about the US news rankings and you're going on a whole side argument about personal value. Great! But who asked? I'm not a fan of the new ranking weights but Wake has made it pretty clear they aren't going to try to improve on them. https://about.wfu.edu/wake-forest-and-rankings/

That web page doesn’t support your statement at all. It is a great summary of wake’s strengths though.

Nature magazine, the preeminent peer reviewed scientific journal, ranks Wake 143rd for its research efforts and William and Mary 287th.

And like every other university, Wake continues to work on growing its research efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Quarter

Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined University strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News. We do not intend to start now.

seems pretty point and blank to me.

If you're going to keep deliberately ignoring/misinterpreting what I've said I'm really just wasting my time. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the future. And a different future requires many years of planning and thought and strategy. Pulling out current rankings like that somehow undermines that is just you being disingenuous.

You suggested that only William and Mary is interested in growing its research efforts. Wake, like nearly every other university in the country, has been doing that for decades and continues to do so, and is not focused on research for purposes of U.S. News ranking improvement. I suspect that William and Mary’s increased focus on research also has zilch to do with the U.S. News rankings and instead has more substantive underpinnings. Your arguments are literally nonsense.

Again another misread! Yikes lady. Can't find anything online about Wake looking to significantly boost research or try to go R1 or expand heavily outside of just the med scholl. If you have some stuff that counters that please send it our way, but this gaslighting is just ridiculous.

Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal. I gave you an entire wiki article about Winston Salem’s innovation corridor and Wake’s role in it. I previously mentioned that Wake has a brand new research faculty dedicated to undergraduate and medical school research and that there is fantastic opportunities for science undergrads to take classes with and work in labs run by medical school professors.

And if you ran a simple google search, here’s what else you would learn:

Key Research Growth & Investments
School of Medicine Expansion: The School of Medicine and Advocate Health are driving major research initiatives, highlighted by a new $ 100 million campaign to support studies in Alzheimer's, regenerative medicine, and diabetes.
Translational Focus: A new translational eye and vision research center has been launched, connecting researchers across the Advocate Health system.
Infrastructure Investment: The university is investing over $1 million in upgrading laboratory and learning spaces, with further campus master planning underway to support increased research activities.
Research Areas: Key focus areas include Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, and regenerative medicine.
Academic Upgrades: The university is planning a capital campaign set to culminate in 2034 to fund academic innovation and research, following a period of modest strategic undergraduate enrollment growth

I’m not the one gaslighting.

DP: thank you for the AI summary really great research there 🙄

Well, pp said she was unable to find nothing anything at all about Wake’s research efforts. Apparently a basic file AI search is beyond her capabilities.

Yeah because AI is a really reliable source and never ever hallucinates and makes things up.

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Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal.

You just can't help yourself can you! Queen of strawmen

I don’t think you understand the meaning of the term. It’s objective data.

"It's objective data" I'm thinking *you* don't know what that means. Strawmanning is when you misrepresent someone's argument. Stop bringing up current stuff to make an argument about future ambitions.

Huh, you were the one that said that research reputation was important to the U.S. News reputational ranking. In response, I gave you Nature’s ranking of both schools. In truth, neither is a powerhouse, but Wake has a significantly higher Nature ranking, way more total dollars and significantly more basic science, as opposed to social science, research.

Your argument that William and Mary has some unique effort to build its research capacities is just moronic. Every research university in the country is constantly doing just that.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

Thank you for this wonderful straw man argument that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment

Not remotely a straw man. It just shows how superficial your understanding of research is. William and Mary being R1 had very little value to my family when their total amount of research is still small and there is little in the area of interest to my student. If my kid was interested in marine science or education, William and Mary would be a better choice for them given its research strength in those area. For a premed kid, Wake offers significantly better research opportunities in their area of interest. Unlike total number of citations in scientific journals, these are inquiries families should be considering because they will have a direct impact on their kid’s academic experience.

It's a strawman because I was talking about the US news rankings and you're going on a whole side argument about personal value. Great! But who asked? I'm not a fan of the new ranking weights but Wake has made it pretty clear they aren't going to try to improve on them. https://about.wfu.edu/wake-forest-and-rankings/

That web page doesn’t support your statement at all. It is a great summary of wake’s strengths though.

Nature magazine, the preeminent peer reviewed scientific journal, ranks Wake 143rd for its research efforts and William and Mary 287th.

And like every other university, Wake continues to work on growing its research efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Quarter

Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined University strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News. We do not intend to start now.

seems pretty point and blank to me.

If you're going to keep deliberately ignoring/misinterpreting what I've said I'm really just wasting my time. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the future. And a different future requires many years of planning and thought and strategy. Pulling out current rankings like that somehow undermines that is just you being disingenuous.

You suggested that only William and Mary is interested in growing its research efforts. Wake, like nearly every other university in the country, has been doing that for decades and continues to do so, and is not focused on research for purposes of U.S. News ranking improvement. I suspect that William and Mary’s increased focus on research also has zilch to do with the U.S. News rankings and instead has more substantive underpinnings. Your arguments are literally nonsense.

Again another misread! Yikes lady. Can't find anything online about Wake looking to significantly boost research or try to go R1 or expand heavily outside of just the med scholl. If you have some stuff that counters that please send it our way, but this gaslighting is just ridiculous.

Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal. I gave you an entire wiki article about Winston Salem’s innovation corridor and Wake’s role in it. I previously mentioned that Wake has a brand new research faculty dedicated to undergraduate and medical school research and that there is fantastic opportunities for science undergrads to take classes with and work in labs run by medical school professors.

And if you ran a simple google search, here’s what else you would learn:

Key Research Growth & Investments
School of Medicine Expansion: The School of Medicine and Advocate Health are driving major research initiatives, highlighted by a new $ 100 million campaign to support studies in Alzheimer's, regenerative medicine, and diabetes.
Translational Focus: A new translational eye and vision research center has been launched, connecting researchers across the Advocate Health system.
Infrastructure Investment: The university is investing over $1 million in upgrading laboratory and learning spaces, with further campus master planning underway to support increased research activities.
Research Areas: Key focus areas include Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, and regenerative medicine.
Academic Upgrades: The university is planning a capital campaign set to culminate in 2034 to fund academic innovation and research, following a period of modest strategic undergraduate enrollment growth

I’m not the one gaslighting.

DP: thank you for the AI summary really great research there 🙄

Well, pp said she was unable to find nothing anything at all about Wake’s research efforts. Apparently a basic file AI search is beyond her capabilities.

Yeah because AI is a really reliable source and never ever hallucinates and makes things up.

Which of the bullet points do you think is false exactly? Honestly, the responses get more idiotic by the page.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

This is hilarious if you think the difference in medical school admissions would change because you did research at Wake rather than WM.

You couldn’t do the same research at William and Mary. I assume students have to do it over the summer at another institution, or do outcomes research instead of basic science. Similarly, Wake students would have to go elsewhere to do the marine sciences research offered at William and Mary. It’s always better if research can be done at home institution because students can continue over multiple semesters as opposed to a shorter summer experience. Part of the reason Emory is very popular for premed students is that it it has its own medical school and is right next to the CDC, offering additional internship experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

Thank you for this wonderful straw man argument that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment

Not remotely a straw man. It just shows how superficial your understanding of research is. William and Mary being R1 had very little value to my family when their total amount of research is still small and there is little in the area of interest to my student. If my kid was interested in marine science or education, William and Mary would be a better choice for them given its research strength in those area. For a premed kid, Wake offers significantly better research opportunities in their area of interest. Unlike total number of citations in scientific journals, these are inquiries families should be considering because they will have a direct impact on their kid’s academic experience.

It's a strawman because I was talking about the US news rankings and you're going on a whole side argument about personal value. Great! But who asked? I'm not a fan of the new ranking weights but Wake has made it pretty clear they aren't going to try to improve on them. https://about.wfu.edu/wake-forest-and-rankings/

That web page doesn’t support your statement at all. It is a great summary of wake’s strengths though.

Nature magazine, the preeminent peer reviewed scientific journal, ranks Wake 143rd for its research efforts and William and Mary 287th.

And like every other university, Wake continues to work on growing its research efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Quarter

Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined University strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News. We do not intend to start now.

seems pretty point and blank to me.

If you're going to keep deliberately ignoring/misinterpreting what I've said I'm really just wasting my time. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the future. And a different future requires many years of planning and thought and strategy. Pulling out current rankings like that somehow undermines that is just you being disingenuous.

You suggested that only William and Mary is interested in growing its research efforts. Wake, like nearly every other university in the country, has been doing that for decades and continues to do so, and is not focused on research for purposes of U.S. News ranking improvement. I suspect that William and Mary’s increased focus on research also has zilch to do with the U.S. News rankings and instead has more substantive underpinnings. Your arguments are literally nonsense.

Again another misread! Yikes lady. Can't find anything online about Wake looking to significantly boost research or try to go R1 or expand heavily outside of just the med scholl. If you have some stuff that counters that please send it our way, but this gaslighting is just ridiculous.

Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal. I gave you an entire wiki article about Winston Salem’s innovation corridor and Wake’s role in it. I previously mentioned that Wake has a brand new research faculty dedicated to undergraduate and medical school research and that there is fantastic opportunities for science undergrads to take classes with and work in labs run by medical school professors.

And if you ran a simple google search, here’s what else you would learn:

Key Research Growth & Investments
School of Medicine Expansion: The School of Medicine and Advocate Health are driving major research initiatives, highlighted by a new $ 100 million campaign to support studies in Alzheimer's, regenerative medicine, and diabetes.
Translational Focus: A new translational eye and vision research center has been launched, connecting researchers across the Advocate Health system.
Infrastructure Investment: The university is investing over $1 million in upgrading laboratory and learning spaces, with further campus master planning underway to support increased research activities.
Research Areas: Key focus areas include Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, and regenerative medicine.
Academic Upgrades: The university is planning a capital campaign set to culminate in 2034 to fund academic innovation and research, following a period of modest strategic undergraduate enrollment growth

I’m not the one gaslighting.

DP: thank you for the AI summary really great research there 🙄

Well, pp said she was unable to find nothing anything at all about Wake’s research efforts. Apparently a basic file AI search is beyond her capabilities.

Yeah because AI is a really reliable source and never ever hallucinates and makes things up.

Which of the bullet points do you think is false exactly? Honestly, the responses get more idiotic by the page.

You think it's idiotic that people don't blindly trust AI? Get a grip you lunatic. Doesn't reflect well on you that you blindly believe whatever it spits out.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

Thank you for this wonderful straw man argument that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment

Not remotely a straw man. It just shows how superficial your understanding of research is. William and Mary being R1 had very little value to my family when their total amount of research is still small and there is little in the area of interest to my student. If my kid was interested in marine science or education, William and Mary would be a better choice for them given its research strength in those area. For a premed kid, Wake offers significantly better research opportunities in their area of interest. Unlike total number of citations in scientific journals, these are inquiries families should be considering because they will have a direct impact on their kid’s academic experience.

It's a strawman because I was talking about the US news rankings and you're going on a whole side argument about personal value. Great! But who asked? I'm not a fan of the new ranking weights but Wake has made it pretty clear they aren't going to try to improve on them. https://about.wfu.edu/wake-forest-and-rankings/

That web page doesn’t support your statement at all. It is a great summary of wake’s strengths though.

Nature magazine, the preeminent peer reviewed scientific journal, ranks Wake 143rd for its research efforts and William and Mary 287th.

And like every other university, Wake continues to work on growing its research efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Quarter

Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined University strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News. We do not intend to start now.

seems pretty point and blank to me.

If you're going to keep deliberately ignoring/misinterpreting what I've said I'm really just wasting my time. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the future. And a different future requires many years of planning and thought and strategy. Pulling out current rankings like that somehow undermines that is just you being disingenuous.

You suggested that only William and Mary is interested in growing its research efforts. Wake, like nearly every other university in the country, has been doing that for decades and continues to do so, and is not focused on research for purposes of U.S. News ranking improvement. I suspect that William and Mary’s increased focus on research also has zilch to do with the U.S. News rankings and instead has more substantive underpinnings. Your arguments are literally nonsense.

Again another misread! Yikes lady. Can't find anything online about Wake looking to significantly boost research or try to go R1 or expand heavily outside of just the med scholl. If you have some stuff that counters that please send it our way, but this gaslighting is just ridiculous.

Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal. I gave you an entire wiki article about Winston Salem’s innovation corridor and Wake’s role in it. I previously mentioned that Wake has a brand new research faculty dedicated to undergraduate and medical school research and that there is fantastic opportunities for science undergrads to take classes with and work in labs run by medical school professors.

And if you ran a simple google search, here’s what else you would learn:

Key Research Growth & Investments
School of Medicine Expansion: The School of Medicine and Advocate Health are driving major research initiatives, highlighted by a new $ 100 million campaign to support studies in Alzheimer's, regenerative medicine, and diabetes.
Translational Focus: A new translational eye and vision research center has been launched, connecting researchers across the Advocate Health system.
Infrastructure Investment: The university is investing over $1 million in upgrading laboratory and learning spaces, with further campus master planning underway to support increased research activities.
Research Areas: Key focus areas include Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, and regenerative medicine.
Academic Upgrades: The university is planning a capital campaign set to culminate in 2034 to fund academic innovation and research, following a period of modest strategic undergraduate enrollment growth

I’m not the one gaslighting.

DP: thank you for the AI summary really great research there 🙄

Well, pp said she was unable to find nothing anything at all about Wake’s research efforts. Apparently a basic file AI search is beyond her capabilities.

Yeah because AI is a really reliable source and never ever hallucinates and makes things up.

Which of the bullet points do you think is false exactly? Honestly, the responses get more idiotic by the page.

You think it's idiotic that people don't blindly trust AI? Get a grip you lunatic. Doesn't reflect well on you that you blindly believe whatever it spits out.

Gon, point out what you think is incorrect. You can’t and resort to insults instead. A sure sign of a losing argument.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

Thank you for this wonderful straw man argument that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment

Not remotely a straw man. It just shows how superficial your understanding of research is. William and Mary being R1 had very little value to my family when their total amount of research is still small and there is little in the area of interest to my student. If my kid was interested in marine science or education, William and Mary would be a better choice for them given its research strength in those area. For a premed kid, Wake offers significantly better research opportunities in their area of interest. Unlike total number of citations in scientific journals, these are inquiries families should be considering because they will have a direct impact on their kid’s academic experience.

It's a strawman because I was talking about the US news rankings and you're going on a whole side argument about personal value. Great! But who asked? I'm not a fan of the new ranking weights but Wake has made it pretty clear they aren't going to try to improve on them. https://about.wfu.edu/wake-forest-and-rankings/

That web page doesn’t support your statement at all. It is a great summary of wake’s strengths though.

Nature magazine, the preeminent peer reviewed scientific journal, ranks Wake 143rd for its research efforts and William and Mary 287th.

And like every other university, Wake continues to work on growing its research efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Quarter

Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined University strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News. We do not intend to start now.

seems pretty point and blank to me.

If you're going to keep deliberately ignoring/misinterpreting what I've said I'm really just wasting my time. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the future. And a different future requires many years of planning and thought and strategy. Pulling out current rankings like that somehow undermines that is just you being disingenuous.

You suggested that only William and Mary is interested in growing its research efforts. Wake, like nearly every other university in the country, has been doing that for decades and continues to do so, and is not focused on research for purposes of U.S. News ranking improvement. I suspect that William and Mary’s increased focus on research also has zilch to do with the U.S. News rankings and instead has more substantive underpinnings. Your arguments are literally nonsense.

Again another misread! Yikes lady. Can't find anything online about Wake looking to significantly boost research or try to go R1 or expand heavily outside of just the med scholl. If you have some stuff that counters that please send it our way, but this gaslighting is just ridiculous.

Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal. I gave you an entire wiki article about Winston Salem’s innovation corridor and Wake’s role in it. I previously mentioned that Wake has a brand new research faculty dedicated to undergraduate and medical school research and that there is fantastic opportunities for science undergrads to take classes with and work in labs run by medical school professors.

And if you ran a simple google search, here’s what else you would learn:

Key Research Growth & Investments
School of Medicine Expansion: The School of Medicine and Advocate Health are driving major research initiatives, highlighted by a new $ 100 million campaign to support studies in Alzheimer's, regenerative medicine, and diabetes.
Translational Focus: A new translational eye and vision research center has been launched, connecting researchers across the Advocate Health system.
Infrastructure Investment: The university is investing over $1 million in upgrading laboratory and learning spaces, with further campus master planning underway to support increased research activities.
Research Areas: Key focus areas include Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, and regenerative medicine.
Academic Upgrades: The university is planning a capital campaign set to culminate in 2034 to fund academic innovation and research, following a period of modest strategic undergraduate enrollment growth

I’m not the one gaslighting.

DP: thank you for the AI summary really great research there 🙄

Well, pp said she was unable to find nothing anything at all about Wake’s research efforts. Apparently a basic file AI search is beyond her capabilities.

Yeah because AI is a really reliable source and never ever hallucinates and makes things up.

Which of the bullet points do you think is false exactly? Honestly, the responses get more idiotic by the page.

You think it's idiotic that people don't blindly trust AI? Get a grip you lunatic. Doesn't reflect well on you that you blindly believe whatever it spits out.

Gon, point out what you think is incorrect. You can’t and resort to insults instead. A sure sign of a losing argument.

You called my response idiotic first. And why would I do your own research for you? I don't just blindly trust what AI spits out without being able to read the sources. The burden of proof is on the person who makes the claim.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

Not sure why you would say Wake is no looking to grow research, they just built a large medical research facility and also added a second campus for their Medical School.

They aren't interested in being r1 as far as i can tell - no public strategy of that

R1 just means a certain level of funding has been received. William and Mary does have more research funding at the undergraduate level, but that is in arts and sciences, education, and Marine sciences.

Wake medical school alone has almost four times as much research funding as William and Mary as a whole. That research is accessible to undergraduates. In fact, my own kid easily found a position for this summer.

And it doesn't count for the rankings so like I said that's the issue Wake has

The amount of research funding doesn’t count period. For any school.

More funding => better research => more impressive faculty => more/better citations and placement in better journals => better peer reputation score

Nature gives W and M a 287th ranking for research. Certainly lots of room for improvement.

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Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal.

You just can't help yourself can you! Queen of strawmen

I don’t think you understand the meaning of the term. It’s objective data.

"It's objective data" I'm thinking *you* don't know what that means. Strawmanning is when you misrepresent someone's argument. Stop bringing up current stuff to make an argument about future ambitions.

Huh, you were the one that said that research reputation was important to the U.S. News reputational ranking. In response, I gave you Nature’s ranking of both schools. In truth, neither is a powerhouse, but Wake has a significantly higher Nature ranking, way more total dollars and significantly more basic science, as opposed to social science, research.

Your argument that William and Mary has some unique effort to build its research capacities is just moronic. Every research university in the country is constantly doing just that.

"Your argument" - oh c'mon when did I say that? Quote me directly please. You can't win an argument by making things up. Having a strategy isn't a "unique effort" and I've never claimed that - it's just a necessary thing. All I asked, repeatedly over and over, was for some sort of evidence (not unsourced slop) that Wake is actively planning for future growth in research since that's something that's apparently going to be rewarded by institutional reputation rankings. You've turned this into some whole other thing. I'm not talking about where either university is at now, I'm talking about where they are actively looking to go in the next 10 years. And it's great they're investing more in medicine but they shouldn't be putting all their fish in one basket. W&M does a lot of research outside of Marine Science (AidData, GRI, Cyber security, AI, psychology, etc.). In the 2025 rankings Wake dropped and W&M went up. Specifically W&M's reputation ranking increased over the last year. I wouldn't be shocked if the R1 status bump they got the year before (and the additional ~29 million dollars in funding they got that year) had something to do with that.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

Thank you for this wonderful straw man argument that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment

Not remotely a straw man. It just shows how superficial your understanding of research is. William and Mary being R1 had very little value to my family when their total amount of research is still small and there is little in the area of interest to my student. If my kid was interested in marine science or education, William and Mary would be a better choice for them given its research strength in those area. For a premed kid, Wake offers significantly better research opportunities in their area of interest. Unlike total number of citations in scientific journals, these are inquiries families should be considering because they will have a direct impact on their kid’s academic experience.

It's a strawman because I was talking about the US news rankings and you're going on a whole side argument about personal value. Great! But who asked? I'm not a fan of the new ranking weights but Wake has made it pretty clear they aren't going to try to improve on them. https://about.wfu.edu/wake-forest-and-rankings/

That web page doesn’t support your statement at all. It is a great summary of wake’s strengths though.

Nature magazine, the preeminent peer reviewed scientific journal, ranks Wake 143rd for its research efforts and William and Mary 287th.

And like every other university, Wake continues to work on growing its research efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Quarter

Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined University strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News. We do not intend to start now.

seems pretty point and blank to me.

If you're going to keep deliberately ignoring/misinterpreting what I've said I'm really just wasting my time. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the future. And a different future requires many years of planning and thought and strategy. Pulling out current rankings like that somehow undermines that is just you being disingenuous.

You suggested that only William and Mary is interested in growing its research efforts. Wake, like nearly every other university in the country, has been doing that for decades and continues to do so, and is not focused on research for purposes of U.S. News ranking improvement. I suspect that William and Mary’s increased focus on research also has zilch to do with the U.S. News rankings and instead has more substantive underpinnings. Your arguments are literally nonsense.

Again another misread! Yikes lady. Can't find anything online about Wake looking to significantly boost research or try to go R1 or expand heavily outside of just the med scholl. If you have some stuff that counters that please send it our way, but this gaslighting is just ridiculous.

Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal. I gave you an entire wiki article about Winston Salem’s innovation corridor and Wake’s role in it. I previously mentioned that Wake has a brand new research faculty dedicated to undergraduate and medical school research and that there is fantastic opportunities for science undergrads to take classes with and work in labs run by medical school professors.

And if you ran a simple google search, here’s what else you would learn:

Key Research Growth & Investments
School of Medicine Expansion: The School of Medicine and Advocate Health are driving major research initiatives, highlighted by a new $ 100 million campaign to support studies in Alzheimer's, regenerative medicine, and diabetes.
Translational Focus: A new translational eye and vision research center has been launched, connecting researchers across the Advocate Health system.
Infrastructure Investment: The university is investing over $1 million in upgrading laboratory and learning spaces, with further campus master planning underway to support increased research activities.
Research Areas: Key focus areas include Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, and regenerative medicine.
Academic Upgrades: The university is planning a capital campaign set to culminate in 2034 to fund academic innovation and research, following a period of modest strategic undergraduate enrollment growth

I’m not the one gaslighting.

DP: thank you for the AI summary really great research there 🙄

Well, pp said she was unable to find nothing anything at all about Wake’s research efforts. Apparently a basic file AI search is beyond her capabilities.

Yeah because AI is a really reliable source and never ever hallucinates and makes things up.

Which of the bullet points do you think is false exactly? Honestly, the responses get more idiotic by the page.

You think it's idiotic that people don't blindly trust AI? Get a grip you lunatic. Doesn't reflect well on you that you blindly believe whatever it spits out.

Gon, point out what you think is incorrect. You can’t and resort to insults instead. A sure sign of a losing argument.

You called my response idiotic first. And why would I do your own research for you? I don't just blindly trust what AI spits out without being able to read the sources. The burden of proof is on the person who makes the claim.

You are the one calling it false. Prove it. You can’t even identify a specific claim that is false.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake has lots of rich kids. W&M prob less so.

Wake has better ROI and can compete outside of regional placement for jobs. It will get closer to top 25 in a few years.

Wak is nowhere near being a top 25

Dp, but why this again. When us news decides to eliminate the dei factors it’s used for the last year or two, Wake will likely be back on the T30, just as it was for over 25 straight years.

But we all know they won't, and since Wake isn't really looking to grow research they'll continue to be punished

So will William and Mary, the schools excel based on class size and having full professors teachers. The research factors are less than 5 percent of score and focus only on overall number of citations. Schools the size of Wake or William and Mary simply can’t compete with the the large flagships on this criteria, they don’t have the same raw numbers of faculty.

W&M is certainly trying to grow research now that it's R1. Will obviously never be able to compete with flagships but it can probably catch up to bigger research privates

Doubtful, it doesn’t even have a medical school.

There are plenty of bigger research schools without a med school. You can still do health related research without one - I imagine the new bioengineering program they're adding will ramp up with that pretty quickly.

My student is premed. She could go to Wake, where she can take classes with medical schools faculty, works in labs with her professors at a school that has well over $300 million in biomedical funding, and shadow her professors at Wake Med.

Or she could go to William and Mary, which has no medical school and a total of $81 million in research funding, nearly all of which is not biomedical.

Thank you for this wonderful straw man argument that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment

Not remotely a straw man. It just shows how superficial your understanding of research is. William and Mary being R1 had very little value to my family when their total amount of research is still small and there is little in the area of interest to my student. If my kid was interested in marine science or education, William and Mary would be a better choice for them given its research strength in those area. For a premed kid, Wake offers significantly better research opportunities in their area of interest. Unlike total number of citations in scientific journals, these are inquiries families should be considering because they will have a direct impact on their kid’s academic experience.

It's a strawman because I was talking about the US news rankings and you're going on a whole side argument about personal value. Great! But who asked? I'm not a fan of the new ranking weights but Wake has made it pretty clear they aren't going to try to improve on them. https://about.wfu.edu/wake-forest-and-rankings/

That web page doesn’t support your statement at all. It is a great summary of wake’s strengths though.

Nature magazine, the preeminent peer reviewed scientific journal, ranks Wake 143rd for its research efforts and William and Mary 287th.

And like every other university, Wake continues to work on growing its research efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Quarter

Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined University strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News. We do not intend to start now.

seems pretty point and blank to me.

If you're going to keep deliberately ignoring/misinterpreting what I've said I'm really just wasting my time. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the future. And a different future requires many years of planning and thought and strategy. Pulling out current rankings like that somehow undermines that is just you being disingenuous.

You suggested that only William and Mary is interested in growing its research efforts. Wake, like nearly every other university in the country, has been doing that for decades and continues to do so, and is not focused on research for purposes of U.S. News ranking improvement. I suspect that William and Mary’s increased focus on research also has zilch to do with the U.S. News rankings and instead has more substantive underpinnings. Your arguments are literally nonsense.

Again another misread! Yikes lady. Can't find anything online about Wake looking to significantly boost research or try to go R1 or expand heavily outside of just the med scholl. If you have some stuff that counters that please send it our way, but this gaslighting is just ridiculous.

Wake, as an institution, has more than three times the research funding of William anns Mary and a research ranking more than 140 places ahead, according to the preeminent science journal. I gave you an entire wiki article about Winston Salem’s innovation corridor and Wake’s role in it. I previously mentioned that Wake has a brand new research faculty dedicated to undergraduate and medical school research and that there is fantastic opportunities for science undergrads to take classes with and work in labs run by medical school professors.

And if you ran a simple google search, here’s what else you would learn:

Key Research Growth & Investments
School of Medicine Expansion: The School of Medicine and Advocate Health are driving major research initiatives, highlighted by a new $ 100 million campaign to support studies in Alzheimer's, regenerative medicine, and diabetes.
Translational Focus: A new translational eye and vision research center has been launched, connecting researchers across the Advocate Health system.
Infrastructure Investment: The university is investing over $1 million in upgrading laboratory and learning spaces, with further campus master planning underway to support increased research activities.
Research Areas: Key focus areas include Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, and regenerative medicine.
Academic Upgrades: The university is planning a capital campaign set to culminate in 2034 to fund academic innovation and research, following a period of modest strategic undergraduate enrollment growth

I’m not the one gaslighting.

DP: thank you for the AI summary really great research there 🙄

Well, pp said she was unable to find nothing anything at all about Wake’s research efforts. Apparently a basic file AI search is beyond her capabilities.

Yeah because AI is a really reliable source and never ever hallucinates and makes things up.

Which of the bullet points do you think is false exactly? Honestly, the responses get more idiotic by the page.

You think it's idiotic that people don't blindly trust AI? Get a grip you lunatic. Doesn't reflect well on you that you blindly believe whatever it spits out.

Gon, point out what you think is incorrect. You can’t and resort to insults instead. A sure sign of a losing argument.

You called my response idiotic first. And why would I do your own research for you? I don't just blindly trust what AI spits out without being able to read the sources. The burden of proof is on the person who makes the claim.

You are the one calling it false. Prove it. You can’t even identify a specific claim that is false.

When did I say it was "false"? I said it was unsourced. Big difference! I don't believe anything is true without a source. I'm not going to waste my time doing the research you couldn't be bothered to do.