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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone without a ton of bias explain why wake was t30 in the first place? I feel like all the other t30 schools are very popular, well known, and academically at the top. I have no doubt wake forest is great, but it’s under the radar across the country[/quote]

Very small class sizes, all classes taught by professors, high level of alumni giving are what kept it on the T30, it was when those factors were removed and first gen/pell grant specific factors were added that it fell out of the T30.

It’s basically a slac in a medium size university package with Power 5 sports in a state with a good climate.  That’s a package that’s been attracting strong students for a long time, and not dissimilar from Duke and Vanderbilt, which is why it’s often a top choice for students not admitted to those schools.[/quote]

So why is it ranked in the absolute toilet (as high as 400 and as low as 700) by international rankings that supposedly give a ton of weight to these metrics?

Honestly, it’s USNews ranking is its highest ranking BY FAR of any rankings…so something doesn’t make sense.[/quote]
DP.
What makes you think international rankings weight alumni giving, class size, etc. highly? [/quote]

They claim to focus on almost entirely academic metrics, class size, classes taught by professors, etc….more so than the US rankings which assign more weight to outcomes.

Though you miss the forest through the trees…somehow schools like Princeton are ranked top 10 by everyone…USNews, Forbes, WSJ, QS, THE…yet Wake only hits top 50ish by USNews and gets hammered by everyone else.[/quote]

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