Wake Forest ED, how is it going?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Not in the first week of October. In any case, I am just relaying what they said.

[Anonymous]

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

All students get decision one month after they complete application, so if completed in October, they would have gotten decision last week. Of completed in August or September, would have gotten results in September or October.

I am in Baltimore and know four kids accepted and one deferred (all kids in private which is where my kids are).

[Anonymous]

I know 3 kids accepted from our mcps high school- dc says they are all smart and well rounded, each had around 1500 sat/34 act and 3.9 or above although these weren’t the kids taking BC calculus to the above poster’s point about course rigor.

[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.

It's also Covid grading plus general grade inflation. lots and lots of kids have very high GPAs.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It's also Covid grading plus general grade inflation. lots and lots of kids have very high GPAs.

One of the PP that was rejected had a 1520 SAT. This seems to confirm the validity of the high GPA for this particular kid, but he was still rejected.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Not in the first week of October. In any case, I am just relaying what they said.

Yes in the first week of October. They may have had a bumper year but they always run out of slots very early

[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 sorry that was her experience. My DD had slightly higher stats and was admitted RD with a nice merit scholarship in '21. Times are changing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I hope she is doing well at UCLA. Are you local? I thought perfect grades were not possible at privates?

[Anonymous]

I’ve heard from numerous sources that Wake puts a lot of emphasis on the essays and is looking at them to determine kids who will be a good fit for the school. They definitely are not the usual run of the mill essays.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard from numerous sources that Wake puts a lot of emphasis on the essays and is looking at them to determine kids who will be a good fit for the school. They definitely are not the usual run of the mill essays.

+1. When I applied in 1988, on of the prompts was “Describe an expressive silence”. That’s it. The whole prompt. 500 wprds on an expressive silence. 25 years later, it’s the only college essay I remember.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard from numerous sources that Wake puts a lot of emphasis on the essays and is looking at them to determine kids who will be a good fit for the school. They definitely are not the usual run of the mill essays.

+1. When I applied in 1988, on of the prompts was “Describe an expressive silence”. That’s it. The whole prompt. 500 wprds on an expressive silence. 25 years later, it’s the only college essay I remember.

When I figured out I could apply using the common app a few years after that, I said “screw your ridiculous essay questions!”

They sent me a supplemental form after I used common app. They luckily did NOT force me to answer one of their essays. What they did insist upon? A picture.

I was accepted and loved my time there, but I still smh at the application experience