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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wake Forest is full of very wealthy and very poor students. No merit, no middle to upper middle class. If you like those social dynamics go for it. It’s similar to Lehigh in that way. Beautiful campus, great academics, but a bubble. [/quote]

They have merit: they have full coat of attendance scholarships worth $360k+. Only 20 some kids get them, but they do exist. They have some partial merit for arts and debate scholars, in addition. 75% of the ones awarded say yes. The rest go to a super elite/ivy.  Wake is an excellent school. Their grads compete well and they have great grad/professional matriculation. Wake costs the same as every other private in the T30 and provides a great education. They are working on more pell grant kids: all top schools fight for these. [/quote]

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?199847-Wake-Forest-University

Average cost $34,720
It is way more than other T30 and more than many T50 T60 privates, and it's in the middle of nowhere.
Salary outcome is also mediocre.

Hard pass unless rich White.
  
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What about Asian?[/quote]

I’m an alum and my daughter’s Asian best friend is transferring out of WFU after one year because she felt out of place (and she put in a ton of effort). The school has changed a lot in the last 10-15 years. Much more blonde and wealthy than when I attended. [/quote]
I'm not sure that's true. The school has gotten less white over time and more economically diverse, but it started on a heavily blonde and wealthy foot. Maybe you didn't notice, because you fit in.[/quote]

It’s also gotten far less southern.  [b]The largest block of students is from the northeast[/b].[/quote]

Is that really new? I knew lots of people from jersey and PA while I was there. (I was from DE at the time). Also a decent amount from MA.

While I was a student in the 90s, though, about 1/3 of the school was from NC. Has that changed?

My 2 sorority sisters with kids who attend(ed) were both NC residents-one has since moved to VA while child #2 is there.

I was going to say I don't remember too many asian students, but one of my sorority little sisters is - she became a doctor. But no, asians were not very well represented then, and it sounds like it hasn't improved.

The school always has been preppy and had a good deal of wealthy kids. I was probably one of the less well off kids, and we were middle-upper middle class. I will say that I found my people, though - there were very nice, down to earth kids who weren't pretentious there. The snooty crowd did their thing, we did ours.[/quote]

Yes, the percentage of NC students has dropped to 16 percent.  https://bulletin.wfu.edu/university/enrollment/  It’s a lot more diverse geographically than it was theee decades ago.[/quote]

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