Thought on Wake Forest?
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Anonymous
| ^^^^ lol baywatch syndication is admittedly Umd s least impressive alumni achievement in that unbelievably impressive list. Embarrassingly , it is greater than any recent achievement of any UVA , Unc or wake grad. It's really sad! |
Anonymous
Not my idea of talented, but given the crap that often passes for comedy these days (as in just being able to use the F word without restraint), I'glad for UMd alums to claim her. |
Anonymous
| ^^^^ look up the literary reading of the email on YouTube ( one if the few inventions not made by Umd ... But google bought it so... ). It's comedy gold... Men get and live that girl! |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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2004 Wake grad here.
Other posters have covered some of this, but my experience with Wake was great academically and a little less great socially. I chose Wake over better schools because they gave me a great scholarship without which I'd be in significant debt. In terms of qualify of the education, I think it was fantastic. I studied biology which is one of the stronger departments there. The work was challenging, the classes were small, and I forged much closer relationships with my professors than my friends at the other elite North Carolina schools. Friends in the same major at UNC and Duke were surprised that our professors were actually in lab with us (we had TAs for some of the intro courses, but in the advanced classes the professors were also there). The work there was definitely challenging, and it set me up well for graduate school down the road. In fact, my Ivy League graduate school seemed easy in comparison to the workload at Work Forest. Worth noting that if anything students felt there was grade deflation going on. Very few people get out of there with a 4.0. Then again, I've never need to put my undergraduate GPA on anything other than my graduate school application so this really shouldn't be a big deal to anyone. Socially, the Greek system is admittedly large. It's so big that it's not as exclusive as on some campuses. There were 1 or 2 sororities that I thought were pretty snotty, but the rest were full of nice girls for whom being in a sorority was just another fun activity to take part in. Several years I opted to live in friends who happened to be in sororities, so it's not like once you're in the Greek system you ignore everyone else. Also, rush happens 2nd semester so most people have already forged friendships by then. I had very little use for the frat guys, but I wasn't their type anyway! My main social challenges were that I grew up with very little money, I'm very liberal (Williams was my first choice, I just couldn't afford it!), and I've never been much of a partier. The student body at Wake definitely has a range from super conservative to rather liberal, but I felt that most people were moderately Republican. Most had also clearly grown up pretty comfortably affluent; despite being perfectly nice, many students just didn't seem to have a sense that many people grow up differently from how they did. That said I chose Wake in part because I felt like people were basically friendly and not hyper-competitive, which I'd still say is true. It just took me a while to find those people that I really clicked with. The Southern thing is being way overstated. Wake is in the South but has many many students from elsewhere. If you want to leave afterwards you'll leave. After graduation I moved to the Raleigh area, then to New England for graduate school, and now I clearly live in the DC area. It's only limiting if you make it so. Parting words--if you are the type of person who cares about going to a "name" school, people are always going to say: "Wake? that's were people who don't get into Duke go, right?" However, if you can look past the name and want a top notch education, it's well worth looking at. |
Anonymous
Thanks, PP; this is one of the most thoughtful and honest posts I've read on this forum. My youngest child is getting ready to start the college admissions process and the perspective from a recent alum is quite helpful. |
Anonymous
| Hope you (and your child) have lots of money. Or else they will be absolutely miserable. I did not have money (scholarship) and transferred after one semester because I just did NOT fit in at all. The social scene there is outrageously expensive and most of the kids there can easily keep up. |
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I honestly believe they have priced themselves into being just for the snooty elites at this point. It is no longer the Wake I attended in the 90's.
While I was there, I dated a guy who lived on a tobacco farm in the mountains of NC who was there on a scholarship. He was FAR from well off, but he was incredibly bright. I doubt he would have chosen wake today. |
Anonymous
| Daughter applying, loves the option of not having to submit test scores. She has a great GPA but low SAT'S/ACT'S. She visited and liked it very much...good vibe. |
Anonymous
| Wake is now a top 25 school. |
Anonymous
Yes and it was when I applied in the early 2000s as well. I graduated in 2006 and share the PPs positive feelings. Wake was academically rigorous and their study abroad programs are fantastic. I made friends from all over the country so if you're looking for a "non-Southern" experience, you can easily find it. I was Greek, but it certainly wasn't the end-all, be-all of my social life. I got into a great grad school and now work for a large company here in DC. I don't agree with the previous assessment that Wake only has recognition in the South--I know many, many alumni working in DC, NY, Chicago, London, etc. |
Anonymous
| I'm not sure if there are statistics to back this up, but it seems to me that Wake Forrest is becoming one of the most popular private schools destinations for kids from the DMV. |
Anonymous
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To the person who say Wake is becoming a destination from students from the area--I wouldn't even say becoming, it's BEEN one. When I started in 2000, it seemed like every 3rd or 4th kid I met was from Maryland or Northern Virginia. We also had tons of students from places like New York, California, and Texas. It attracts students from all over.
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Anonymous
| How does Wake rank prestige-wise? |
Anonymous
Where? In the mid-Atlantic it has a very good reputation. The problem for Wake is that unlike UVA (which is ranked about the same) there is no area where Wake is considered the best. In North Carolina, UNC and Duke are considered better. In this area UVA is considered slightly better. As you move away from the south and mid-Atlantic, the reputation is not as well known. |