If you’re white and Christian then Wake; if you’re Jewish or a minority then Tulane; if you are anything and seeking a much bigger school then UGA.

Anonymous wrote:Chapel Hill is more liberal. Less intensely southern.

Athens seems liberal and Atlanta kids don’t seem conservative

Chapel Hill is more liberal. Less intensely southern.

UGA or Tulane. Wake is very 90s

Are there any significant differences between UGA and Chapel Hill?

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Anonymous wrote: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

How conservative?

Wake isn't particularly conservative, it's just not super woke left wing SJW like most T50s.

Tulane

Wake

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Anonymous wrote: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

How conservative?

It’s not conservative, middle of the road would be more accurate.

- parent of current student who leans very left and is completely comfortable at Wake.

I vote UGA. Rapidly rising in rankings whereas the other two have fallen out of favor. It’s a very respectable school. Either way, all good choices.

Anonymous wrote: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

How conservative?

Depends what you want to study.

The level of personal interaction and service at Wake is great. Add small classes and professors who are readily accessible, and it is a great option, plus ACC sports and good school spirit.

But to a PP question, if you are an engineering student, larger schools usually have more labs and resources, which is why some people pay for them.

Anonymous wrote:Why would one pay OOS tuition for a public school over a small private school?

Because the public school could be better?

Why would one pay OOS tuition for a public school over a small private school?

Sarcasm. There has not been a change in the school -- only in US News' criteria for ranking, now leaning heavily on outcomes for First-Gen students vs. percentage of students in top 10% of high school class, etc.

Anonymous wrote: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?