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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, outcomes will be similar at all schools. Just have your kid visit and they should know their choice right away. When my DC considered these 3 schools, Tulane was the clear winner from the second they stepped on campus. Good luck!

I don’t think this is true, UGA is still going to send most of its grads to locations in the Southeast. Wake and Tulane are going to be sending more kids to NY and Northeast.

How do you know this? All the schools are T100 national universities so this seems like an exaggeration.

According to UGA career page, 67 percent of grads stay in the state of GA for employment. It’s just common sense when the majority of students are from instate, that’s where alumni ties will be strongest. Atlanta is likely a strong draw.

That is very strong OOS placement considering 80% of undergrads are from GA. However, Atlanta is a better city for job growth considering the Northeast will decline over the next 30 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, how about the ranking factors USNews cut out of the process that gave Wake it's top 30 ranking: alumni giving, class sizes, high school class standing, and the proportion of instructional faculty with terminal degrees.

Where is your data showing Wake is better at those things as of this year?

Why would you think it would change, especially with tenured profs? US News just dropped these criteria entirely. However average class size is in cds. Wake doesn’t use TAs I am willing to UGA does.

As a current Wake parent, I can confirm class size usually less than 20,the exception being some stem or business classes that might go up to a class size of 50. All professors at Wake are required to both teach and conduct research, that’s fairly unique. They seek people who are good at both.

Not remotely unique. That is what a professor is — someone who contributes to an area of scholarship (research) and trains the next generation (teaching).

Incorrect, many professors at big research universities do not teach (only do research) or do not teach undergrads. Conversely, many, mostly bigger schools, hire part time faculty members who teach but do not conduct research.

Wake is a great academic school. Make sure you visit.
It is not near anything, small campus. preppy and conservative.

downtown winston-salem is fund, but you have to take a shuttle bus

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Anonymous wrote:Well, how about the ranking factors USNews cut out of the process that gave Wake it's top 30 ranking: alumni giving, class sizes, high school class standing, and the proportion of instructional faculty with terminal degrees.

Where is your data showing Wake is better at those things as of this year?

Why would you think it would change, especially with tenured profs? US News just dropped these criteria entirely. However average class size is in cds. Wake doesn’t use TAs I am willing to UGA does.

As a current Wake parent, I can confirm class size usually less than 20,the exception being some stem or business classes that might go up to a class size of 50. All professors at Wake are required to both teach and conduct research, that’s fairly unique. They seek people who are good at both.

Not remotely unique. That is what a professor is — someone who contributes to an area of scholarship (research) and trains the next generation (teaching).

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, outcomes will be similar at all schools. Just have your kid visit and they should know their choice right away. When my DC considered these 3 schools, Tulane was the clear winner from the second they stepped on campus. Good luck!

I don’t think this is true, UGA is still going to send most of its grads to locations in the Southeast. Wake and Tulane are going to be sending more kids to NY and Northeast.

How do you know this? All the schools are T100 national universities so this seems like an exaggeration.

According to UGA career page, 67 percent of grads stay in the state of GA for employment. It’s just common sense when the majority of students are from instate, that’s where alumni ties will be strongest. Atlanta is likely a strong draw.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, outcomes will be similar at all schools. Just have your kid visit and they should know their choice right away. When my DC considered these 3 schools, Tulane was the clear winner from the second they stepped on campus. Good luck!

I don’t think this is true, UGA is still going to send most of its grads to locations in the Southeast. Wake and Tulane are going to be sending more kids to NY and Northeast.

How do you know this? All the schools are T100 national universities so this seems like an exaggeration.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, outcomes will be similar at all schools. Just have your kid visit and they should know their choice right away. When my DC considered these 3 schools, Tulane was the clear winner from the second they stepped on campus. Good luck!

I don’t think this is true, UGA is still going to send most of its grads to locations in the Southeast. Wake and Tulane are going to be sending more kids to NY and Northeast.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, how about the ranking factors USNews cut out of the process that gave Wake it's top 30 ranking: alumni giving, class sizes, high school class standing, and the proportion of instructional faculty with terminal degrees.

Where is your data showing Wake is better at those things as of this year?

Why would you think it would change, especially with tenured profs? US News just dropped these criteria entirely. However average class size is in cds. Wake doesn’t use TAs I am willing to UGA does.

As a current Wake parent, I can confirm class size usually less than 20,the exception being some stem or business classes that might go up to a class size of 50. All professors at Wake are required to both teach and conduct research, that’s fairly unique. They seek people who are good at both.

Wake declined?

Anonymous wrote:So really, in one year since US News ranked them, Wake acceptance rate dropped to 20%, but they became less selective in accepting people from the top 10% of their HS class, all of their teachers with doctorates quit which caused their classes to quadruple in size, and alumni giving collapsed.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, how about the ranking factors USNews cut out of the process that gave Wake it's top 30 ranking: alumni giving, class sizes, high school class standing, and the proportion of instructional faculty with terminal degrees.

Where is your data showing Wake is better at those things as of this year?

Honestly, outcomes will be similar at all schools. Just have your kid visit and they should know their choice right away. When my DC considered these 3 schools, Tulane was the clear winner from the second they stepped on campus. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:What major?

+1 The major matters, if business major then UGA or Tulane. Acceptance is not guaranteed into the business program at Wake

Also not guaranteed at UGA, you have to apply to Terry as a sophomore. Tulane Freeman is accessible to anyone, a huge pro for Tulane in general.

So really, in one year since US News ranked them, Wake acceptance rate dropped to 20%, but they became less selective in accepting people from the top 10% of their HS class, all of their teachers with doctorates quit which caused their classes to quadruple in size, and alumni giving collapsed.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, how about the ranking factors USNews cut out of the process that gave Wake it's top 30 ranking: alumni giving, class sizes, high school class standing, and the proportion of instructional faculty with terminal degrees.

Where is your data showing Wake is better at those things as of this year?

I would pick Tulane or Wake for the small classes and personal attention.

Tulane was the best 3 yrs of my life (law school). 10/10 experience. There is nowhere else like New Orleans.

Anonymous wrote:Well, how about the ranking factors USNews cut out of the process that gave Wake it's top 30 ranking: alumni giving, class sizes, high school class standing, and the proportion of instructional faculty with terminal degrees.

Where is your data showing Wake is better at those things as of this year?