Why DCUM has such high regard to Wake and Davidson?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:solid choices for NY metro students faking between ivies and rutgers, penn state, etx

What does "faking between ivies and rutgers, penn state" mean?

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Anonymous wrote:Both school have acceptance rate around 20%. SAT range 1300-1500.
Not particularly difficult to get into.
You likely to encounter so-so peer in these schools.

Only on DCUM are schools that reject 80 percent plus of applicants called easy to get into.enda:

Average SAT for those admitted to Wake Class of 2026 was 1480. I expect Davidson similar but too lazy to look.

A majority of Wake’s class is admitted test optional, so the 1480 is inflated.

That’s now true for practically every school. Why pick on Wake.

It’s clear that someone has a hate agenda: because these schools are in the South they can’t have rigorous academics, their students can’t be smart, and everyone must be racist.

The nasty poster needs to look in the mirror and consider their own prejudices. It’s probably the same one who routinely shows up to claim the same about UVA.

[Anonymous]

OP seems like a troll. Totally fine to ask a question, but it’s clear there’s someone here who just wants to say nasty, unsupported things. None of the data supports any of their derogatory remarks. I don’t even think the poster is from NY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both school have acceptance rate around 20%. SAT range 1300-1500.
Not particularly difficult to get into.
You likely to encounter so-so peer in these schools.

Google is your friend! Davidson had an admit rate of 13.4% for class of 2028. Pretty certain you would not get in given your less-than-stellar research skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, they are regarded as schools for rich Whites and boring.

By whom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Both school have acceptance rate around 20%. SAT range 1300-1500.
Not particularly difficult to get into.
You likely to encounter so-so peer in these schools.

Only on DCUM are schools that reject 80 percent plus of applicants called easy to get into.

Average SAT for those admitted to Wake Class of 2026 was 1480. I expect Davidson similar but too lazy to look.

A majority of Wake’s class is admitted test optional, so the 1480 is inflated.

No more than any other school, despite Wake being test optional for over a decade, 48 percent of enrolled student submitted test scores in 2023, which is about the same as Vandy and considerably more than schools like USC and NE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both school have acceptance rate around 20%. SAT range 1300-1500.
Not particularly difficult to get into.
You likely to encounter so-so peer in these schools.

Get out of your weird bubble. In no logical world is a mid-50%ile of 1300-1500 “so so”. Both schools have the same peer range as UVA and some other T25s. That makes them prestigious and difficult to get into. Just because there are 15-20 schools that have significantly higher pre-TO ranges does not make the schools or the kids there “so so”.
OP though I do not have one at either, all of my northeast children and nephews really enjoyed the tours and applied to them because they are great. If they are not for you, move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:7% of the student body comes from New York, which, while not the highest percentage compared to its peers, is still pretty good.

Where Wake lags from being a university that attracts students from all over. It has very few students from California, New York/New England/New Jersey and especially international students. Only 90 freshmen were international students, out of 1,385, or just 6.5%.

To put it in perspective schools like BU, NEU, NYU, Emory, BC, Tufts, and UMiami draw many more students from California, and out their region, and especially internationally.

Wake Forest is rated highly geographical diverse with 78 percent of students coming from out of state and 11 percent international. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/wake-forest-university/student-life/diversity/

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Anonymous wrote:Does Davidson have any Jewish kids? Community?

Just a Google away: https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/religious-and-spiritual-life/jewish-life

What %?

Just over 3%

Davidson’s webpage says it’s about 5%, but we’re in the same ballpark.

https://www.hillel.org/college/davidson-college/

For color, we (Jews) are less than 2.5% of the US population.

[Anonymous]

Davidson is a great school because it is a wonderful SLAC but it's also in a nice climate! It's not freezing like most great SLACs. When I was in high school, it was too conservative and southern for me, but now it's less conservative and there is more geographic diversity.

[Anonymous]

Davidson is a good school for sure (a lot of family went there and some to Wake as well). Though from NC, I still have a bias for some of the other SLACs (Pomona, Wellesley, Amherst etc) but it is a solid school where your kid will get a great education. All of the top SLACs have national recognition though Davidson and Wake will have much stronger alumni networks in the South than elsewhere…. There does seem to be a lot of people (or the same subset of people) who promote Davidson on this board… who knows why.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:7% of the student body comes from New York, which, while not the highest percentage compared to its peers, is still pretty good.

Where Wake lags from being a university that attracts students from all over. It has very few students from California, New York/New England/New Jersey and especially international students. Only 90 freshmen were international students, out of 1,385, or just 6.5%.

To put it in perspective schools like BU, NEU, NYU, Emory, BC, Tufts, and UMiami draw many more students from California, and out their region, and especially internationally.

Wake Forest is rated highly geographical diverse with 78 percent of students coming from out of state and 11 percent international. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/wake-forest-university/student-life/diversity/

For undgraduate freshmen, 2023-204 there were 90 non-residents listed on the common data set compiled and hosted by Wake. This out of 1,385 freshmen. For purposes of the Common Data Set a non-resident is defined as "[a] person who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely."

https://prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu/sites/202/2024/08/CDS_2023-2024_2024-08-26-1200.pdf

I would take Wake's word, directly from its mouth, over some college blog site.

Wake is very much a regional school. There is nothing wrong with that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both school have acceptance rate around 20%. SAT range 1300-1500.
Not particularly difficult to get into.
You likely to encounter so-so peer in these schools.

Only on DCUM are schools that reject 80 percent plus of applicants called easy to get into.

Average SAT for those admitted to Wake Class of 2026 was 1480. I expect Davidson similar but too lazy to look.

A majority of Wake’s class is admitted test optional, so the 1480 is inflated.

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No more than any other school, despite Wake being test optional for over a decade, 48 percent of enrolled student submitted test scores in 2023, which is about the same as Vandy and considerably more than schools like USC and NE.

46% of USC's freshmen submitted an SAT (32%) or ACT (14%) score. A few percent probably submitted both. However, it really doesn't matter, because precovid, pre TO, all these schools had high SAT scores. The 25% score has gone up, but the median and 75% is not all too different. NE had a incredibly high average SAT score pre-covid, something like 1500 but that was only for the Boston admits. 36% of freshmen submitted a test score for 2023-2024.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:7% of the student body comes from New York, which, while not the highest percentage compared to its peers, is still pretty good.

Where Wake lags from being a university that attracts students from all over. It has very few students from California, New York/New England/New Jersey and especially international students. Only 90 freshmen were international students, out of 1,385, or just 6.5%.

To put it in perspective schools like BU, NEU, NYU, Emory, BC, Tufts, and UMiami draw many more students from California, and out their region, and especially internationally.

Wake Forest is rated highly geographical diverse with 78 percent of students coming from out of state and 11 percent international. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/wake-forest-university/student-life/diversity/

For undgraduate freshmen, 2023-204 there were 90 non-residents listed on the common data set compiled and hosted by Wake. This out of 1,385 freshmen. For purposes of the Common Data Set a non-resident is defined as "[a] person who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely."

https://prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu/sites/202/2024/08/CDS_2023-2024_2024-08-26-1200.pdf

I would take Wake's word, directly from its mouth, over some college blog site.

Wake is very much a regional school. There is nothing wrong with that.

Here’s the top ten states Wake draws from outside North Carolina, in order of number of students sent:
Florida
New York
New Jersey
Virginia
Georgia
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
California

That’s hardly regional unless by regional you mean the entire East Coast.

[Anonymous]

Harvard is also regional. It takes 15% of its students from Massachusetts, yet the state only represents 2% of the US population.