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[quote=Anonymous]I attended in the 90s and had an amazing experience.  But, I went on a full academic scholarship (a Carswell) and at the time all full academic scholarship kids had the option of living in the same 70 person dorm for all 4 years.  So I had a wonderful, but atypical social experience.  Otherwise, I think I would have been unhappy with the atmosphere, which was greek, whealthy, conservative and white.

I was humanities all the way, and the academics were very rigorous.  I had a 40 person science lecture my first year, and after than, no class above 25-- 15 for major level seminars, and some classes had 5 or fewer students. I was never taught by a TA.  Professors went out of their way to invite students to their homes and offer them extra opportunities.  I also got involved in interdisciplinary honors, which was a great program.  Wake also has at least 3 "houses" overseas where the students can go for a semester and live and be taught by Wake Forest professors.  So I have nothing but great things to say about the education.

On the other hand, my husband, who also attended, was interested in physicas and computer science, and was not impressed by the  quality of the STEM educaton (but this info is very dated-- especially on computer science, which was a new department back then), and he regrets going.  He wishes he had gone to a Va Tech, Ga Tech, NC Sate type school instead.

Most students I know were preprofessional (doctor, lawyer, acounting, business & even a couple clergy), and had no problem going on to be accepted at highly regarded professional programs.  Very few went on for advanced degrees (masters or PhDs) in humanities. [/quote]

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