I grew up in NC and UNC and Wake were considered peer schools, along with NC State. Maybe UNC a little higher and NC State was viewed a little lowered than Wake but not much.

Duke possibly was considered a peer school to UNC but not really. I wouldn’t have called it a peer school to Wake. Wake has a great reputation in NC though. It's highly respected.

Wake is the Bucknell of North Carolina.

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people at Wake got rejected from Duke and Vandy. No harm in that. Gorgeous campus and people I know who have gone there have loved it

None of them were rejected from Vandy! Wake kids would not even consider Vandy.

Grew up in NC. Wake is equal to Duke and above UNC. By a mile.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who has lots of family in NC and went to UNCCH I would say that most people would view Wake as behind UNCCH and Duke and ahead of all other schools in NC except perhaps Davidson, but that is a liberal arts college. I don’t know any people who look down their noses at Wake and I have several UNC and Duke alumni as relatives.

No offense…but what other NC schools are there, especially if you claim they are behind Davidson?

I guess ahead of Elon, Highpoint and ECU et al?

NC state is for engineering better than UNC
NC state has some fabulous masters programs in Textiles which has a huge track to CEO jobs and start up culture .

Elon is crap , it’s like High point yuppie parents dumb kids .

ECU medical sv
Chocolate applicants do well from. Great acceptances after undergrad.

Elon is a great school and ranks very highly in lots of categories. It’s not the Elon of 1990.

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Anonymous wrote:No on Davidson. Sorry no.

It's just a prestige thing - considered much more selective than Wake. But it's not everyone's cup of tea, that's for sure.

Davidson takes the same kids as Wake does at our private. Duke and UNC (oos) much harder admits.

Not at our private, according to Naviance.
Wake goes down to 3.5-3.6uw GPA generally.
Davidson is 3.78-3.82
Duke is 3.9+

I guess Davidson just likes our private better, routinely takes kids ranked 20 to 40 percent and has for years. Seen as a target for most kids. The top twenty percent goes to Ivies and Ivy plus or NESAC. Davidson not on the radar for those kids, more a peer of W and L.

I’m sure you know what you are talking about.

I’m sure you never miss autocorrect errors.

Ok, children. Both of you put the keyboard down and go take a walk or something.

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Anonymous wrote:No on Davidson. Sorry no.

It's just a prestige thing - considered much more selective than Wake. But it's not everyone's cup of tea, that's for sure.

Davidson takes the same kids as Wake does at our private. Duke and UNC (oos) much harder admits.

Not at our private, according to Naviance.
Wake goes down to 3.5-3.6uw GPA generally.
Davidson is 3.78-3.82
Duke is 3.9+

I guess Davidson just likes our private better, routinely takes kids ranked 20 to 40 percent and has for years. Seen as a target for most kids. The top twenty percent goes to Ivies and Ivy plus or NESAC. Davidson not on the radar for those kids, more a peer of W and L.

I’m sure you know what you are talking about.

I’m sure you never miss autocorrect errors.

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Anonymous wrote:No on Davidson. Sorry no.

It's just a prestige thing - considered much more selective than Wake. But it's not everyone's cup of tea, that's for sure.

Davidson takes the same kids as Wake does at our private. Duke and UNC (oos) much harder admits.

Not at our private, according to Naviance.
Wake goes down to 3.5-3.6uw GPA generally.
Davidson is 3.78-3.82
Duke is 3.9+

I guess Davidson just likes our private better, routinely takes kids ranked 20 to 40 percent and has for years. Seen as a target for most kids. The top twenty percent goes to Ivies and Ivy plus or NESAC. Davidson not on the radar for those kids, more a peer of W and L.

I’m sure you know what you are talking about.

^^^ Wake is a much easier admit generally. Especially for boys.

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Anonymous wrote:No on Davidson. Sorry no.

It's just a prestige thing - considered much more selective than Wake. But it's not everyone's cup of tea, that's for sure.

Davidson takes the same kids as Wake does at our private. Duke and UNC (oos) much harder admits.

Not at our private, according to Naviance.
Wake goes down to 3.5-3.6uw GPA generally.
Davidson is 3.78-3.82
Duke is 3.9+

I guess Davidson just likes our private better, routinely takes kids ranked 20 to 40 percent and has for years. Seen as a target for most kids. The top twenty percent goes to Ivies and Ivy plus or NESAC. Davidson not on the radar for those kids, more a peer of W and L.

Could be.
Think Davidson is for kids at ours who are around the 25% or so. Peer to an Emory or so for us.
We get a lot into both in RD.

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Anonymous wrote:No on Davidson. Sorry no.

It's just a prestige thing - considered much more selective than Wake. But it's not everyone's cup of tea, that's for sure.

Davidson takes the same kids as Wake does at our private. Duke and UNC (oos) much harder admits.

Not at our private, according to Naviance.
Wake goes down to 3.5-3.6uw GPA generally.
Davidson is 3.78-3.82
Duke is 3.9+

I guess Davidson just likes our private better, routinely takes kids ranked 20 to 40 percent and has for years. Seen as a target for most kids. The top twenty percent goes to Ivies and Ivy plus or NESAC. Davidson not on the radar for those kids, more a peer of W and L.

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Anonymous wrote:I view it as a rich kid school. Kind of like Vanderbilt.

Yes, but much lower in prestige. Like a Tulane, U-Miami or SMU. Though probably ranked higher than those 3?

Rich kid schools outside T20 (in order of prestige):

USC
Wake
U-Miami
SMU
Tulane

Does that seem right?

I'd consider Wake, Miami, and possibly Tulane as more prestigious than USC.

To be fair it probably depends on what region of the country this question's asked in.

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Anonymous wrote:I view it as a rich kid school. Kind of like Vanderbilt.

Yes, but much lower in prestige. Like a Tulane, U-Miami or SMU. Though probably ranked higher than those 3?

Rich kid schools outside T20 (in order of prestige):

USC
Wake
U-Miami
SMU
Tulane

Does that seem right?

SMU?!?!? SMU is not at the level of any of these schools.

Really? Today? SMU has done a whole rebranding recently.
I think of SMU and Tulane synonymously, especially in terms of the full-pay kids it attracts this year.

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Anonymous wrote:No on Davidson. Sorry no.

It's just a prestige thing - considered much more selective than Wake. But it's not everyone's cup of tea, that's for sure.

Davidson takes the same kids as Wake does at our private. Duke and UNC (oos) much harder admits.

Not at our private, according to Naviance.
Wake goes down to 3.5-3.6uw GPA generally.
Davidson is 3.78-3.82
Duke is 3.9+

Just because a lot of in-state don’t go, doesn’t diminish them IMO. If they were same cost, plenty would happily switch for a mid-size, smaller classes, more personalized attention.