Grades for Wake and how many APs

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Anonymous wrote:Wake is pretty competitive. Need strong transcript. I'm sorry I don't know the specific answer to your question. Mine was accepted RD last year (does not attend) with straight A's from a large public HS, a strong transcript with all AP's and Honors classes (but not nearly the amount of AP's as I see kids in the DC area on this board taking).
They love demonstrated interest. Rolling (binding) admissions for ED is an interesting option for many to commit to WF early.
I think US News will not play a factor - it is a very popular school for strong students. No skin in the game.

Would you mind sharing how many APs? Thank you.

AP Calc AB
AP Physics C
AP Euro
APUSH
That’s it!

Thanks! I feel like there are never fewer than 12 on this board!

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my HS didn't even allow us to start taking APs until junior year, and only 2 that year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m ignoring the troll but did want to add that Wake has 99 percent of classes below 50 students and all professors teach undergraduates. Wake was T30 for more than 25 years without interruption and it was the removal of the class size metrics and terminal degree of instructor criteria that pushed them down this year. If those factors are important to your student, I highly recommend the school.

Freshman year gen ed at Wake I had 2 classes under 12 students with a full tenured experienced professor, learned so much but it was hard as hell. You have to come to class engaged at all times. Not for everyone.

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I honestly didn’t find the gen eds/core classes I took all that difficult. I did like the smaller classes and access to full professors, though. The biggest classes I had were psych 101 (although probably no more than 40) and astronomy (which was the class you took if you weren’t premed) in those first couple years. Oh, wait, I had a slightly bigger music intro class, too, but probably also not more than 30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I honestly didn’t find the gen eds/core classes I took all that difficult. I did like the smaller classes and access to full professors, though. The biggest classes I had were psych 101 (although probably no more than 40) and astronomy (which was the class you took if you weren’t premed) in those first couple years. Oh, wait, I had a slightly bigger music intro class, too, but probably also not more than 30.

Sounds like junior college, or rather, boarding school. What a waste of time and money.

[Anonymous]

Mine was rejected RD, 10 APS and an unweighted 3.9 1540 SAT. Got into UVA and U Michigan. Only applied there because wanted a smaller school option incase she changed her mind on a big school. Did not do an interview or official visit (did visit on our own), they do value demonstrated interest which also means it is a bit easier to get in during ED.

[Anonymous]

A couple years ago mine got in from private, full-pay with 1500+ SAT and grades top 10-13%. No interview, but did do official tour. 10 APs based on weird way his school counted APs. Solid ECs but no outstanding leadership. Sounds like he was pretty similar to person immediately above who was rejected, except he took official tour.

[Anonymous]

Just a side note, the past few years, Wake runs out of interview slots by mid October, so the vast majority of kids including my own enrolled student and her roommate didn’t have an interview. Instead, applicants have the opportunity to make a short video responding to a prompt provided by Wake.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My student had 3.8 unweighted from a rigorous private with some grade deflation , took maximum rigor available. 1500 SATs which we submitted. Immediate past cycle . Wake loves leadership, many of her friends attending were either senior class President or school president.

These are could be (even in 2023) Ivy level stats (with the max rigor) from my kids' "rigorous private" where the average GPA is a 3.5. Wake is more like a 3.6 and for kids who didn't take max rigor.
(By max rigor are you talking AP language, math beyond calc BC, and physics C?)

A few years ago, she likely would have been an Ivy quality admit, but not today, ecs not special enough. So she looked elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

The only kids I know who have gotten into Wake were private school legacies. My nephew is gunning for WF in two years and he's a legacy so we'll see how that plays out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honestly didn’t find the gen eds/core classes I took all that difficult. I did like the smaller classes and access to full professors, though. The biggest classes I had were psych 101 (although probably no more than 40) and astronomy (which was the class you took if you weren’t premed) in those first couple years. Oh, wait, I had a slightly bigger music intro class, too, but probably also not more than 30.

Sounds like junior college, or rather, boarding school. What a waste of time and money.

what part? I mean, lots of people do say that they worked very hard, but I honestly just didn't feel like that. I mean, I learned a lot and got to take a really nice variety of classes. We weren't allowed to pick our major until we'd taken 60 credits, so there were a good amount of core classes or whatever they called them. Psych and Music were part of those. I also had tested into the Lit level for foreign language and took that as a first semester freshman with mostly juniors and seniors. I wasn't pre-med, so I took Astronomy, which was the easier science as the others were weed out classes for potential med students. I actually liked Astronomy, though - I always had a fascination with space.

That said, it was much cheaper when I was there (1/4 the cost of now)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a side note, the past few years, Wake runs out of interview slots by mid October, so the vast majority of kids including my own enrolled student and her roommate didn’t have an interview. Instead, applicants have the opportunity to make a short video responding to a prompt provided by Wake.

And you can’t sign up for an interview until you have applied

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine was rejected RD, 10 APS and an unweighted 3.9 1540 SAT. Got into UVA and U Michigan. Only applied there because wanted a smaller school option incase she changed her mind on a big school. Did not do an interview or official visit (did visit on our own), they do value demonstrated interest which also means it is a bit easier to get in during ED.

Were you full pay?

[Anonymous]

My kid (HS class of 2022) applied RD and got in (without an interview). He went to a public school in NoVA, and was a full IB student plus 5 AP classes (World History, US Gov't, Spanish, Calc AB, and Psych). He had straight A's in HS (1 A-), and a 35 ACT. We visited after he was admitted, but he ended up going elsewhere. It seemed like it could have been a quintessential college experience, but it wasn't quite the right fit for him (he wanted a more urban experience).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake is pretty competitive. Need strong transcript. I'm sorry I don't know the specific answer to your question. Mine was accepted RD last year (does not attend) with straight A's from a large public HS, a strong transcript with all AP's and Honors classes (but not nearly the amount of AP's as I see kids in the DC area on this board taking).
They love demonstrated interest. Rolling (binding) admissions for ED is an interesting option for many to commit to WF early.
I think US News will not play a factor - it is a very popular school for strong students. No skin in the game.

Would you mind sharing how many APs? Thank you.

AP Calc AB
AP Physics C
AP Euro
APUSH
That’s it!

Thanks! I feel like there are never fewer than 12 on this board!

You are welcome. I feel that way too. I should have added he had an ACT score of 35 which is always helpful