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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wake Forest is one of a small number of mid-size universities similar to W&M that have strong undergraduate teaching programs with small class sizes and excellent faculty.  These schools will continue to thrive because the demand for those types of schools exceeds the number of seats available.

They will get fewer applications because some parents chase the schools rankings, so while overall acceptance rates may rise, the overall quality of students accepted and attending will not change.  [/quote]

Wake alum here with a kid at WM.  And I agree that the schools have a lot in common academically And my kid’s WM experience has been very similar academically to what mine was.  It hits the same “not 1800 kids total in the middle of nowhere” SLAC profile (and before you yell, I also  have a kid who went to one of these 1800 kids in the middle of nowhere SLACs and it was great for them), but still small classes, great professor accessibility, noTAs, undergrad focus.  They also are both in USNWR National Us (and not LACs) primarily because of professional schools and not PhD students. That matters, because PhDs get first crack at research and teach undergrads. Great for the PhD candidates. Not so great for the undergrads.

That said, WM is less Southern and more liberal on whole than Wake. WM student body is less affluent (mind you, it’s still affluent, but many more Wake kids are downright rich).  WM is less athletics focused (ACC football and basketball mattered at Wake even though it doesn’t have SEC tye athletics), and WM has a much weaker Greek system.  So, socially, they are different. [/quote]

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