Wake Forest University
Location: Winston-Salem, NC (suburban, mid-sized city)
Size: 5,441 students
Avg percent need-met: 100%
Acceptance rate: 32%
Middle 50% ACT: 30-33 **Test Optional**
Middle 50% SAT: 1300-1460 **Test Optional**
Wake Forest is a high quality institution with excellent graduate placement rates. They focus on crafting an education for the entire person, including promoting out-of-class opportunities, such as extending research to undergrads. Professors demand a lot from students, but love what they do, so are helpful and allow students to have a voice. You’ll get a small school atmosphere with large-school resources, including a strongly supportive alumni network. The community is encouraging and open and they boast D1 athletics.
Popular majors / known for: Business, Communication, Psychology, Political Science
Academic approach: Research university
Fun fact: Each Halloween, the school orchestra performs - in costume - at midnight with the Lilting Banshees comedy troupe
Check out campus photos here!
Similarity to Princeton
Wake Forest feels similar in terms of campus community. Of the Ivies, Princeton is on the more conservative side, and students at Wake Forest lean moderate or conservative
Combines the resources of a research university with a liberal arts college, with a business school and strong politics and international affairs program
Application Details
RD deadline: January 1st
Priority deadline: N/A
Supplemental essays: Yes
Application fee: $65
On Common App: Yes
CSS profile: Required, due January 1st
Interviews: Important
School also featured in: Big School Feel, Conservative Leaning, Schools in the South