Wake Forest - Rankings Drop? Why?
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Anonymous
| Because it’s too mid. |
Anonymous
| Who cares? . |
Anonymous
Schools like Vanderbilt and WashU have a higher %age of top 1% families and they are ranked in the top 20. Amherst, Georgetown and Dartmouth are right behind Wake with top 1% families. Next excuse… |
Anonymous
That is probably true. Kid is at Vanderbilt now. Wake was his target along with UGA. Safeties included Auburn honors. I know DS has at least two close friends at V. who also applied to Wake |
Anonymous
Maybe actually look at percentage of Pell grant eligible at each school (too logical for a troll) Vandy: 23 percent Dartmouth: 23 percent Wash U: 20 percent Georgetown:15 percent Wake Forest:9 percent Amherst is ranked as a liberal arts school which has a different set of criteria, but has the highest percentage of Pell grant eligible among any of the schools you mentioned, 25 percent. |
Anonymous
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Wake Forest is just Alabama with a higher price tag, less hot sororities, a much worse football team, and more obnoxious carpetbaggers from New Jersey.
It offers the illusion of private prestige for kids who are too afraid to admit that what they really want is the SEC experience. |
Anonymous
| Wake, Villanova, and Tulane have dropped big time in US News. |
Anonymous
You can have lots of top 1% families, but they need paired in the new rankings with lots of Pell Grant kids too. USNW now likes barbell schools with lots of rich and lots of poor kids - squeezing out the middle/UMC. |
Anonymous
Wake boosters should stay in their Top 75 lane and leave Emory out of the nonsense. Emory admin do not think Wake is a peer. Wake 1420-1500 Emory 1500-1570 |
Anonymous
| Wake For3st is a hot school. The U.S. News rankings are crap and the fact that Wake has fewer poors is frankly not a reason for a proper ranking system to rank it lower; it is instead a reason to rank it higher. IYKYK. |
Anonymous
See, Emory mom hates that Wake wins cross admits. Doesn’t change that Emory is where fun goes to die and kids before Wake. Don’t think SAT test scores particularly meaningful when both schools have less than 50 percent of class submitting SAT but the correct range for Emory is 1480 to 1540 (per latest cds). |
Anonymous
Kids prefer wake |
Anonymous
Correct. The relevant questions are why and whether anything about these schools are actually different now than they were five years ago, when they were rated higher. |
Anonymous
Answer: too few Pell Grant kids and no |
Anonymous
| No one considers Wake a peer of UVA. |