<p>Hi I'm a high school Junior and I was wondering what my chances at Wake Forest would be.
I am A 3.5 (freshman and sophomore) and this year I have a 3.9. My school doesn't weight grades and I have taken several honors classes and 2 APs. On my SATs I have a 730 writing, 750 reading, and 650 math. I don't have a class rank because my school doesn't do that. My ECs are competitive english horseback riding, president of national charity league, student council, Service Learning Committee, Sustainability Committee, MUN, tutoring middle school and elementary school children, and lacrosse.</p>
<p>You’re probably a shoo-in.</p>
<p>Absolutely not a shoo-in, but competitive. That is a low GPA for Wake. How many honors/ APs does your school offer? If you haven’t taken many of them it will be much more difficult to be admitted.</p>
<p>It’s unweighted, so I don’t think it’s that low. Plus, the upward trend this year helps.</p>
<p>To dispel the GPA myth – you don’t need a 4.0 GPA to get into Wake as long as you have other things. My unweighted was between 3.5 and 3.6. Granted, my SATs probably helped and I did a lot of extracurriculars, but GPA isn’t everything – especially to a small school like Wake :)</p>
<p>“you don’t need a 4.0 GPA to get into Wake as long as you have other things”</p>
<p>So true, and the most important thing is $56,000 per year!</p>
<p>College is expensive in general. Not to say Wake isn’t, but they all are. Wake barely made top 75 most expensive schools according to this list: [CampusGrotto</a> - Highest Tuition + Room and Board 2010-2011](<a href=“http://www.campusgrotto.com/highest-tuition-room-and-board-2010-2011.html]CampusGrotto”>America's Most Expensive Colleges - CampusGrotto)</p>
<p>Wake also did not crack top 10 according to Forbes in 2010: [America’s</a> Most Expensive Colleges Page 2 of 2 - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/04/americas-most-expensive-colleges-business-most-expensive-colleges_2.html]America’s”>http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/04/americas-most-expensive-colleges-business-most-expensive-colleges_2.html). </p>
<p>Not to say Wake is NOT expensive, but there are definitely very expensive places to be … i.e. NYU Tisch. Could not find an easy-to-read source but Tisch is like ~60K.</p>
<p>Per the chronicle of higher education, there are approximately 2150 4-year public and private (non-profit) schools in the US.</p>
<p>Public 4-year institutions 615
Private 4-year institutions, non-profit 1,536
<a href=“http://chronicle.com/free/almanac/1999/nation/nation.htm[/url]”>http://chronicle.com/free/almanac/1999/nation/nation.htm</a></p>
<p>If Wake is #75 on the price list, that puts it the top 4% of most expensive schools. When you couple this with the fact that Wake appears to offers less merit aid than other schools (see the previous posts that provide some antecdotal evidence on this–as well as our own personal experience), the net cost of going to Wake is even higher relative to other schools. There is always talk about taxing the richest 5% of people in this country—based on tuition, Wake is among the “richest” schools.</p>
<p>It’s also one of the top 4% schools academically probably. Of course Winston-Salem State isn’t going to cost as much as Wake Forest.</p>
<p>I agree Wake is skimpy on aid (both financial and merit) but its base tuition/fees is no different than any other private schools</p>
<p>“If Wake is #75 on the price list, that puts it the top 4% of most expensive schools.”</p>
<p>That may be so, but most “top tier” schools are this expensive, with the exception of many public universities (although some of those are pretty expensive as well). It doesn’t matter that Wake is in the top 4% of most expensive universities if someone is only looking at the top 4% to begin with. </p>
<p>Although, like I said, I agree: College in general is expensive. Your best bet, I believe, of getting money from Wake is through a sport or Presidential Scholarship, although I know quite a few kids here getting $$.</p>
<p>Nothing is a “shooin”…my daughter applied this year with similar stats, same GPA, better math scores, and was WL at WF. Each year brings different STATS, but was WL to many schools. GO for it, and don’t rule any school out!!! The third week of April she came off the WL and was accepted at the second most challenging (admission stats-wise) college she applied to. Never expected to come off the WL…so you never know. Good luck. It is exciting, but stressful. Hang in there.</p>
<p>wake likes personable students, which they discover through interviews. I think a big part of what got me in was that me and my interviewer clicked. It felt much more like a conversation rather than a series of questions that a typical interview might entail. They also look for thoughtful responses to their supplement essays. In no way do they care only about numbers/statistics</p>
<p>“wake likes personable students, which they discover through interviews.”</p>
<p>I think college interviews tend to have marginal effect on college admissions. They might make a difference where a kid is on the bubble with regard to admission, but doubt they would result in admitting a student who is not otherwise academically elligible for admission. In Wake’s case, they also acccept “on-line” interviews–which, in my opinion, really do little to reveal much, if anything, about how “personable” a student is. My suspision is that the previous poster was admitted to Wake based far more on his other achievements than on the resutls of his interview.</p>