Wake Forest ED, how is it going?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest had a significant increase in ED apps.

How do you know this? Is this info publicly available?

They told students who have applied (so public) because they ran out of interview slots way back in early October. My child applied RD but early, hoping to get interview, but they had already run out. They give the option of submitting a video instead, which my student did.

[Anonymous]

Big 3 good student, rejected in ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Big 3 good student, rejected in ED.

Damn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Got rejected. DS white male 1520 SAT. 3.9 gpa. No special extracurricular.

whoa really?

No hooked?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest had a significant increase in ED apps.

How do you know this? Is this info publicly available?

They told students who have applied (so public) because they ran out of interview slots way back in early October. My child applied RD but early, hoping to get interview, but they had already run out. They give the option of submitting a video instead, which my student did.

They run out every year.

[Anonymous]

DD rejected MCPS 3.9uw, 4.7w, 34 ACT and already 6 5’s on AP exams. Completely shocked. And to think we mulled over wasting her ED but since it was first choice, decided to go for it. How was she not at least deferred?????

[Anonymous]

Good lord - I know very few of my fellow alums who would be accepted now.

[Anonymous]

The rejections on this thread are surprising, but it is a tough admissions landscape and your kids will find a happy home somewhere else.

I do wonder when I read this and similar threads and see the stats of rejected students, who is getting in anywhere if a student with a 1550 and 4.7 is getting rejected from wale forest? is part of it the course load? For example, there is a difference between a 3.9 from a student who took ap’s including calc bc and physics vs a 3.9 from a student who took ap’s including stat, psych and environmental science. As a pp said, the essays must count, too, but course load is a major factor most posters don’t mention when they cite their dc’s gpa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The rejections on this thread are surprising, but it is a tough admissions landscape and your kids will find a happy home somewhere else.

I do wonder when I read this and similar threads and see the stats of rejected students, who is getting in anywhere if a student with a 1550 and 4.7 is getting rejected from wale forest? is part of it the course load? For example, there is a difference between a 3.9 from a student who took ap’s including calc bc and physics vs a 3.9 from a student who took ap’s including stat, psych and environmental science. As a pp said, the essays must count, too, but course load is a major factor most posters don’t mention when they cite their dc’s gpa.

the illustrated outcomes demonstrate that one's entire application matters. High stats are not sufficient for admission to the most selective schools as the competition for admission is tough. Same for the most coveted jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD rejected MCPS 3.9uw, 4.7w, 34 ACT and already 6 5’s on AP exams. Completely shocked. And to think we mulled over wasting her ED but since it was first choice, decided to go for it. How was she not at least deferred?????

I’m so sorry. It is tough to get a rejection. She will shine wherever she goes!

[Anonymous]

ditto so sorry. my dd last year was stellar applicant--1550 4.0 unweighted from private school, interesting ecs and a completely well-rounded candidate. She got in nowhere except UCLA and Santa Clara. I was the one who cried.
PS She is very happy at UCLA, altho not sure I am since its expensive and there is currently a strike by labor.

[Anonymous]

Damn I woke up in Japan this is nuts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A friend of my son's was deferred. 4.0 UW but a terrible test taker, so did not submit scores. From what I hear, the essays were just so-so (my son read one.) Extracurrics were average for UMC white male.

They do not care about tests. They were one of the first schools to understand that the SAT/ACT are not fair.

Yeah. No. I was actually a student at Wake Forest way back when they went TO. At the time, they had recently separated from the Baptist Convention and moved from the Regional to the National category in USNWR rankings and we’re not that far out from all students being required to attend chapel. It was a novelty to get press (and it did, since they (I think) the first top 50 to go there) and designed to attract students outside of NC; to try to get URMs (the campus was so, so white). And, they were absolutely gaming the USNWR rankings an an attempt to exclude scores from URMs and athletes and (at first) some regionally diverse students). Realize Wake only had 3500 undergrads at the time.

It worked. The school became nationally known (Tim Duncan’s basketball run, early years as a pro and his decision to play 4 years and graduate also didn’t hurt). The student body grew. They raised their tuition considerably. But make no mistake, there wasn’t the appreciation for how tightly test scores being tied to SES in the 90s, and many kids took the SAT cold, once. 50% of the decision was Wake being one of the first schools to make an aggressive move to manipulate USNWR and 50% was a recognition that without URMs, athletes and other hooked kids (even if their academics weren’t up to par) Wake wouldn’t be able to establish itself as a national university. As for the TO kids? That’s why Wake had a Communications degree.

[Anonymous]

We know 2 kids at private rejected and one deferred
Tough year shaping up

[Anonymous]

Were the students who were deferred and denied told before the November 1 deadline so they could choose to apply ED somewhere else?