Tell me about Wake Forest
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Anonymous
Just wrong -- W&L has a Commerce school and a Finance concentration for a Business Administration major (same as Richmond and Wake). Why are you stating things as facts when you don't know. |
Anonymous
A "finance concentration" for a business administration major is not the same as a finance major, moron. Finance majors at Wake Forest earn $176k ten years after graduation compared to Richmond $152k for econ majors and $107k for business administration majors, and to W&L $152k for econ majors and $107k for business administration majors. If you want to major in finance you need a school that offers that, not some half-ass "concentration" in a lame-o business major. |
Anonymous
Dude, yes it is -- same classes. You obviously know nothing about the industry, so stop calling people a moron. |
Anonymous
You technically can’t major in Finance at Wharton…you receive a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a concentration in Finance. Most people call that a major. |
Anonymous
OK... but nobody here except you is talking about Wharton. This thread is about Wake Forest. |
Anonymous
Well, the PP said W&L had a “half-ass” concentration and not a major. Just pointing out that the best undergraduate business school in the country also only offers a “half-ass” concentration and yet manages to send hundreds of kids into high paying finance Jobs. |
Anonymous
W&L also punches way above their weight in placing people into IB. See #16 on size adjusted list here: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking Wake is improving with its limited pre-Wall Street program, and Richmond is just not yet a place to go for IB at the present. |
Anonymous
Wharton is not W&L (duh) - the professors and classes are nowhere near the same - so your point is idiotic. |
Anonymous
Are you this dense? PP was specifically faulting the school because it didn’t have a finance major, only a concentration. How many times do you have to be punched in the face with the fact that a school having a major vs a concentration is irrelevant. They are the same thing. Guess what…Wake Forest also isn’t Wharton even with its so called finance “Major”. |
Anonymous
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We toured Wake and couldn't figure out where do kids go to hang out? There was that small village that felt like it was more for visiting families then Winston-Salem which didn't seem to have a typical college bar/restaurant/shop street or area.
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Anonymous
Probably....on campus. |
Anonymous
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This thread started out with a simple question and went downhill and away from facts or helpfulness:
1. About 500 of 1370 incoming students in last CDS received aid that was known about, so at highest 63.5% are full pay unless they made their own arrangements outside the school. I do not understand the bridge to Emory in this thread, but fyi aid was given there to 587 out of 1425, not very different. 2. Wake has usually had a top 20 program for both business and accounting, but a few cycles recently they have dropped because of not enough respondents to questions. It is right there in the notes on the P&Q site, not because the program has changed. 3. Where Wake is different is that it is more white than some other schools like Emory. Emory is 35% white, Wake is 60%. Other schools around 60% are Villanova, Boston College, and Lehigh, just to give a few. All from the CDS reports. 4. Wake is more Greek than other schools, to the poster who asked about hanging out or social life. There is a "compound" of off campus houses where there are parties. No on campus fraternity or sorority houses, just some lounges in dorms that are assigned to different chapters. 5. The school is in a suburban area surrounded by...forest. So yes, there is no walkable set-up like Athens, Madison or Chapel Hill. I think that is why Greek is bigger. But students have a bar or two they can go to under 21, and then once 21 there are a number of bars with a quick uber and downtown Winston is ten minutes. Overall, it is a goldilocks school in some ways as another person posted. Under 6000 undergrads, yet D1 sports, pretty campus, small classes all taught by knowledgeable teachers not TAs, good weather and school spirit. Could it be more diverse? Yes. But that does not mean it is a bad school. P.S. They just began a new early action admissions round for first gen students. So I would infer that they plan to increase diversity. |
Anonymous
| ^ I bet that early action program will be filled with first gen white and asian students very soon. |
Anonymous
I bet they are athletes. They were the only blacks I’ve seen on campus. |
Anonymous
+1 Fully concur with everything here. I would say, kids there find no lack of things to do and go to; more like too many options. |