Tell me about Wake Forest

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

It’s significantly easier to get into Davidson from the private schools my kids attend, just have to be in top half of the class if you ED, top third RD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

Yes, Davidson has D1 sports but they aren’t in a major conference and they aren’t good at anything except track and field.

The kids I know who are at Davidson have considerably more mixed feelings about it than the rah rah parents on DCUM. It’s ridiculously small and the athletes socialize only among themselves.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

Yes, Davidson has D1 sports but they aren’t in a major conference and they aren’t good at anything except track and field.

The kids I know who are at Davidson have considerably more mixed feelings about it than the rah rah parents on DCUM. It’s ridiculously small and the athletes socialize only among themselves.

I'd imagine athletes don't tend to like liberal arts colleges; they are the odd ones on campus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is full of very wealthy and very poor students. No merit, no middle to upper middle class. If you like those social dynamics go for it. It’s similar to Lehigh in that way. Beautiful campus, great academics, but a bubble.

“Very poor” meaning kids whose families make 100k-175k

That is poor. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

It’s significantly easier to get into Davidson from the private schools my kids attend, just have to be in top half of the class if you ED, top third RD.

Davidson had a 12.5% admit rate this year. Last year it was 14.5% vs 21.5% at WF. That's not even close. Your stats are pipe dreams.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

Yes, Davidson has D1 sports but they aren’t in a major conference and they aren’t good at anything except track and field.

The kids I know who are at Davidson have considerably more mixed feelings about it than the rah rah parents on DCUM. It’s ridiculously small and the athletes socialize only among themselves.

DS is best friends with a baseball player, although he's not an athlete. Plenty of other similar pairings among his crew. They love the school and don't find it to be too small. None of them even applied to WF. It's just a different caliber of school with very different offerings.

[Anonymous]

I know people are going to say "that didn't happen" but I had a sorority sister who transferred from Duke to Wake.

Again, this was in the 90s, but these things do happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is full of very wealthy and very poor students. No merit, no middle to upper middle class. If you like those social dynamics go for it. It’s similar to Lehigh in that way. Beautiful campus, great academics, but a bubble.

“Very poor” meaning kids whose families make 100k-175k

That is poor. Sorry.

I hope you one day can meet normal, everyday people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

It’s significantly easier to get into Davidson from the private schools my kids attend, just have to be in top half of the class if you ED, top third RD.

Davidson had a 12.5% admit rate this year. Last year it was 14.5% vs 21.5% at WF. That's not even close. Your stats are pipe dreams.

You don’t get it because you are a public school parent. Slacs love private schools. Once you get beyond the top 5 slacs, which doesn’t include Davidson, it’s pretty easy to get in the rest of the slacs from a top private. It’s not just Davidson, it’s all of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

Yes, Davidson has D1 sports but they aren’t in a major conference and they aren’t good at anything except track and field.

The kids I know who are at Davidson have considerably more mixed feelings about it than the rah rah parents on DCUM. It’s ridiculously small and the athletes socialize only among themselves.

I'd imagine athletes don't tend to like liberal arts colleges; they are the odd ones on campus.

I know multiple kids at Davidson. One recently graduated and said he wished he transferred to some where with more social kids or was an athlete. The other is a recruited athlete and said the non athletes are quirky. So yes, I agree with you if you you have a quirky kid, Davidson might be perfect for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

Yes, Davidson has D1 sports but they aren’t in a major conference and they aren’t good at anything except track and field.

The kids I know who are at Davidson have considerably more mixed feelings about it than the rah rah parents on DCUM. It’s ridiculously small and the athletes socialize only among themselves.

I'd imagine athletes don't tend to like liberal arts colleges; they are the odd ones on campus.

I know multiple kids at Davidson. One recently graduated and said he wished he transferred to some where with more social kids or was an athlete. The other is a recruited athlete and said the non athletes are quirky. So yes, I agree with you if you you have a quirky kid, Davidson might be perfect for them.

Huh... I once asked dcum for recommendations for a nice but nerdy STEM kid and dcum steered me away from Davidson because it had a jock/party vibe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

Yes, Davidson has D1 sports but they aren’t in a major conference and they aren’t good at anything except track and field.

The kids I know who are at Davidson have considerably more mixed feelings about it than the rah rah parents on DCUM. It’s ridiculously small and the athletes socialize only among themselves.

I'd imagine athletes don't tend to like liberal arts colleges; they are the odd ones on campus.

I know multiple kids at Davidson. One recently graduated and said he wished he transferred to some where with more social kids or was an athlete. The other is a recruited athlete and said the non athletes are quirky. So yes, I agree with you if you you have a quirky kid, Davidson might be perfect for them.

Huh... I once asked dcum for recommendations for a nice but nerdy STEM kid and dcum steered me away from Davidson because it had a jock/party vibe.

Never mind, I checked back and that description was for W&L, not Davidson.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

Yes, Davidson has D1 sports but they aren’t in a major conference and they aren’t good at anything except track and field.

The kids I know who are at Davidson have considerably more mixed feelings about it than the rah rah parents on DCUM. It’s ridiculously small and the athletes socialize only among themselves.

I'd imagine athletes don't tend to like liberal arts colleges; they are the odd ones on campus.

I know multiple kids at Davidson. One recently graduated and said he wished he transferred to some where with more social kids or was an athlete. The other is a recruited athlete and said the non athletes are quirky. So yes, I agree with you if you you have a quirky kid, Davidson might be perfect for them.

Huh... I once asked dcum for recommendations for a nice but nerdy STEM kid and dcum steered me away from Davidson because it had a jock/party vibe.

Never mind, I checked back and that description was for W&L, not Davidson.

I'm surprised by that description of W&L. It does not tend to attract quirky or even humanities-minded students, instead white southern students who like greek life and business school are the W&L vibe

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to Davidson and W&L ?

More than twice the overall student population yet same small class size plus power 5 sports. My Deac claims they get a fair number of transfers from Davidson from kids who found Davidson too small.

LOL! No one transfers from Davidson to WF -- that is just fantasy. Davidson has D1 sports across the board and a much higher caliber of student.

It’s significantly easier to get into Davidson from the private schools my kids attend, just have to be in top half of the class if you ED, top third RD.

Davidson had a 12.5% admit rate this year. Last year it was 14.5% vs 21.5% at WF. That's not even close. Your stats are pipe dreams.

You don’t get it because you are a public school parent. Slacs love private schools. Once you get beyond the top 5 slacs, which doesn’t include Davidson, it’s pretty easy to get in the rest of the slacs from a top private. It’s not just Davidson, it’s all of them.

Very high stats kid from a VA private school rejected from Davidson for ED2. Was admitted to W&M and UVA RD. Did not apply to WF. This data is inaccurate for current admissions.