Reply to Which T30 colleges are your kids happy at ?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Which T30 colleges are your kids happy at ?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wake Forest[/quote]

Is WF top 30? Really? I haven’t looked at USNWR in a long time! [/quote]

LOL. It is absolutely not. One of the posters above is pulling your leg[/quote]

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Tied at 29 with Florida and UNC[/quote]

NP. I literally had no idea WF was ranked 29. Now I totally get why the middle of the road kids at our private ED rolling to Wake in September. It is the easiest top 30 to get into, right? [/quote]

Wake has always been in the T30[/quote]

since being reclassified as a National University in the mid-90s while I was a student there, yes

As I noted before, it was ranked #1 in the South Region when I applied there BUT was profiled in a book on the top 50 schools in the country, as well

It has increased its student body size since I was there and it always felt more like a liberal arts school than a research university to me. My other choices were mostly liberal arts schools (Bucknell and F&M were 2 of them), so that was what I was aiming for. You couldn't declare a major until you were a junior and there was a strong core curriculum - most didn't just jump right into a major like at some of the larger institutions.

It is a strong school with great networking in many majors. I know my fellow alum's senior daughter already has a job lined up with a top consulting firm after doing a summer internship. And it apparently still retains the nickname "Work Forest" although it is more a work hard/play hard place. The campus is lovely and I had a wonderful 4 years. I don't think it is worth $80k/year, though.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics