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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread started out with a simple question and went downhill and away from facts or helpfulness:

1. About 500 of 1370 incoming students in last CDS received aid that was known about, so at highest 63.5% are full pay unless they made their own arrangements outside the school. I do not understand the bridge to Emory in this thread, but fyi aid was given there to 587 out of 1425, not very different.

2. Wake has usually had a top 20 program for both business and accounting, but a few cycles recently they have dropped because of not enough respondents to questions. It is right there in the notes on the P&Q site, not because the program has changed.

3. Where Wake is different is that it is more white than some other schools like Emory. Emory is 35% white, Wake is 60%. Other schools around 60% are Villanova, Boston College, and Lehigh, just to give a few. All from the CDS reports.

4. Wake is more Greek than other schools, to the poster who asked about hanging out or social life. There is a "compound" of off campus houses where there are parties. No on campus fraternity or sorority houses, just some lounges in dorms that are assigned to different chapters.

5. The school is in a suburban area surrounded by...forest. So yes, there is no walkable set-up like Athens, Madison or Chapel Hill. I think that is why Greek is bigger. But students have a bar or two they can go to under 21, and then once 21 there are a number of bars with a quick uber and downtown Winston is ten minutes.

Overall, it is a goldilocks school in some ways as another person posted. Under 6000 undergrads, yet D1 sports, pretty campus, small classes all taught by knowledgeable teachers not TAs, good weather and school spirit. Could it be more diverse? Yes. But that does not mean it is a bad school.

P.S. They just began a new early action admissions round for first gen students. So I would infer that they plan to increase diversity. [/quote]

+1 Fully concur with everything here. I would say, kids there find no lack of things to do and go to; more like too many options.[/quote]

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