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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wake Forest challenges the students. Absolutely superb school![/quote]

I attended. It does.  And it is.  And I worked, but had plenty of free time and I was a pretty studious kid. And, I keep hearing grade deflation and disagree.  I graduated phi beta kappa, was accepted at several T20 law schools and was not prepared for the writing.  I think I got by on articulating good ideas and was missing some real fundamentals. I came from a crappy Southern HS and Wake let me continue to coast without being able to construct a good paper.  It was an issue my 1L year.  Looking back, my classes were very timed bluebook heavy and my handful of Bs were paper classes.

I’m not pursing it for my two kids for two reasons. One, we chose to leave the South and I have no desire to send my kids back. [b]It’s not where the future is [/b]and they’d hate it.  And two, Wake make the choice to compete at as National U and not a SLAC around the time I was there.  Up until then, it was a lot more like Davidson with good associated law, medicine and MBA programs.  I think awake lost something special when it expanded so much. They would have been better served staying SLAC IMO, but that was never going to happen with the med school being such a powerhouse.

Just my 2 cents. [/quote]

Demographics and migration trends  disagree with you.

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I also went to Wake. Studied hard but didn’t graduate phi beta kappa. A couple years later, I accepted a scholarship at a top 10 law school. Made straight A’s in all writing classes and still publish articles today. I’m not sure if Wake had anything to do with your experience because I actually thought Wake was harder than my law school. I also graduated law school with a higher GPA than undergrad...[/quote]

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