Wake Forest vs Villanova? Wants a mid-size school with spirit

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is significantly harder to get into.

This is not correct; in fact, the reverse may be more accurate--but only by a slight margin.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither is worth paying private tuition price tags.

This is not correct. Depends on several factors, but both are excellent schools.

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Maybe Bucknell University, Providence College (Rhode Island).

Unfortunately, the "stuck-up preppy" comment eliminates too many schools. You need to focus on state publics if that is a main concern and avoid the Greek system at those schools.

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Anonymous wrote:They both seem way too expensive but my DD wants a middle size school with school spirit and a pretty, non-urban campus. Her ideal school would be more diverse though and have less of a reputation for being stuck up preps. (Maybe that has changed a bit?)

Would love thoughts and opinions from people who have visited, applied or had kids attending.

Tough combo to find! Cheap + pretty + non-urban + mid-size + spirit + SES diversity = service academies. Not the right fit for everyone, obviously.

[Anonymous]

Wake Forest is far left. My brother’s DD went their seven years ago and would come home for break and would be saying some crazy a$$ stuff. He took her out of that toxic environment. It took about 2 years to deprogram her.

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Villanova has a much better backdrop. The mainline is beaut and accessible for students via R5. Philly is also there. Villanova (town) is just a much better location.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is far left. My brother’s DD went their seven years ago and would come home for break and would be saying some crazy a$$ stuff. He took her out of that toxic environment. It took about 2 years to deprogram her.

?? Are you serious?

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Anonymous wrote:WF Is not harder to get into. Posted on their websites they are 32 and 31%. Please.

Wake adores is ranked 29th and Villanova is ranked 51.

Wake forest acceptance rate below 25 percent last year.

Because WF has PhD programs and does research. Villanova is focused on undergraduate education. It is not a research school, therefore gets knocked in rankings. But do undergrads really care about rankings based on research for PhDs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They both seem way too expensive but my DD wants a middle size school with school spirit and a pretty, non-urban campus. Her ideal school would be more diverse though and have less of a reputation for being stuck up preps. (Maybe that has changed a bit?)

Would love thoughts and opinions from people who have visited, applied or had kids attending.

I’m sure it’s too large but Univ Wisconsin Madison has tons of school spirit, beautiful campus, vibrant, friendly town

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Anonymous wrote:

Neither one has much school spirit. *except mens basketball

I disagree. Wake's football team is doing well and plenty of kids go to the games. 'Nova' s bball program is usually pretty god.

I’d call two national championships and multiple final 4 and sweet 16 appearances over the last 15 years more than just ‘pretty good’. Nova’s program has been better than Duke’s, UNC’s and KU’s recently.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They both seem way too expensive but my DD wants a middle size school with school spirit and a pretty, non-urban campus. Her ideal school would be more diverse though and have less of a reputation for being stuck up preps. (Maybe that has changed a bit?)

Would love thoughts and opinions from people who have visited, applied or had kids attending.

I’m sure it’s too large but Univ Wisconsin Madison has tons of school spirit, beautiful campus, vibrant, friendly town

Indiana University also large but same, lots of spirit and great town

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University of Miami is a mid-size school with spirit.

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University of Dayton

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UNC-Asheville?

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is far left. My brother’s DD went their seven years ago and would come home for break and would be saying some crazy a$$ stuff. He took her out of that toxic environment. It took about 2 years to deprogram her.

*Narrator: she doesn’t know right from left