<p>Hey guys,
I was wondering if it's hard to transition from living in the Northeast to going to a more Southern school like Wake. I would love any feedback, good or bad, so let me know!
Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m a parent, so maybe you don’t want my opinion, but … Honestly, going to a southern school is not like going to a foreign country!!! There is no transition, except you’ll get to wear shorts and flip flops longer. People are warm, friendly, and polite. You don’t have to eat grits if you don’t want to. Really, it’s no big deal from what D tells me. She is extremely happy at Wake.</p>
<p>The only difference is that Wake is more conservative (but not too conservative) than most northeast schools.</p>
<p>I’m from Florida and I applied to Wake. It may be my first choice now since I got waitlisted at my #1. </p>
<p>And I’m definitely liberal. I’m sure there are a lot of liberal/Northeastern vibed people like me attending Wake.!</p>
<p>You might be surprised at how accepting a lot of Southerners are. It doesn’t mean you have to go country or whatever you think NC is like, but it’s never really an issue. Unless you’re gay. That sort of throws people.</p>
<p>I still don’t understand why southerners are so homophobic. Both my parents are (both from Alabama). Gays and Lesbians are people too!</p>
<p>But, again, there have to be a decent amount of people who are accepting of homosexuality. I’ll be one of them!</p>
<p>Anyway, back to the point: don’t worry about the people there. Even if a majority of Wake people are traditionally southern, there are definitely the open-minded minority groups!</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - I Am Wake Forest](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syl29M8HrQU]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syl29M8HrQU)</p>
<p>Hahahaha.</p>
<p>hilsa i saw u on the vandy thread!! ur everywhere ahahha</p>
<p>Haha. I am quite ubiquitous. I’m the token student that obsesses about colleges every waking moment of their life! I have to post everywhere!</p>
<p>I’m debating about Wake still because I’m like from the most liberal place ever: CA and I’m also Asian which makes about 5% of Wake?
Do you think I would have any trouble fitting in?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about that. Really.</p>
<p>I actually chose Wake as one of my top schools for the fact that there aren’t a lot of people like me. I guess it’s something that would make me feel special or something.</p>
<p>We could be friends. Like I said, I’m really liberal. And I think Asians are rad!</p>
<p>hilsa - I’ve seen you almost everywhere around these threads and you already seem very friendly! =)
I hope you make up the majority of the people at Wake.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m a wee bit worried too.</p>
<p>Quick Background Speed Through: I’m Asian and have been going to a catholic private school from preschool to 8th grade then went to a public high school. Oh yeah, I live in a small town called Danville, Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Now, I’ve kind of always been afraid of the south (sans Disney World) because I always have negative connotations and I’ve always wanted to meet more Asians (don’t get me wrong, I love white people and everyone else it just gets annoying when there’s over 2 billions Asians out there and you only know about 8).</p>
<p>So I dunno, Wake Forest is my strongest inclination towards a college and I really want a fun social experience before I kill myself during med school and the road towards it.</p>
<p>I feel you, but Florida and especially Orlando, FL and Disney World is not the South. Trust me I live in Orlando and worked at Disney as Aladdin, and this is not the South. It’s more akin to northern states than anything, except maybe for sweet tea.</p>
<p>Well the sweet tea might be enough of an incentive for me. Another thing is how is the area surrounding Wake Forest? I know Pit has Pittsburgh and that’s the city and there’s tons of people to meet there, but does the area around Wake provide something close to that or at least a nice population of people?</p>
<p>Hi guys - I’ve been lurking on the Wake threads for a while this week watching the returns come in, and remembering my own experience of getting off the Wake waitlist (long, long ago). Congratulations!</p>
<p>/\ssassin (nice use of slashes, BTW), my advice to you is to mix the sweet tea with unsweet and create semi-sweet tea. It’s a lot more palatable than feeling the undissolved sugar sludge on the back of your tongue!</p>
<p>Winston-Salem is not Pittsburgh. It’s about 200,000 in population and more residential than attraction-oriented. Unlike Pitt students, Wake students still didn’t get a lot of use out of the downtown the last time I visited, though there’s been a lot of urban renewal and enhancements since I was a student in the '70s. With the campus an enclave in a residential area several miles north of the downtown, there’s not a great deal of town-and-gown interaction. The upside is that the campus becomes a beehive of activity, and generates a very strong sense of community.</p>
<p>Coming from a small town in Georgia, my own Ds didn’t want to consider Wake because they were eager for a more urban setting with a more bustling city life. That wouldn’t be my choice however - I enjoyed the fact that my classmates and I were intensely focused on life inside the campus (what some students call a “bubble”) and creating a unique community within the city.</p>
<p>The South is different. I grew up in suburban DC to a Northern family, went to Wake, and have since lived in NC, SC and now GA, and I’ve never come to feel Southern. The resistance to new ways of looking at old issues, and the blinders created by a tradition of unchallengeable religious conservatism that characterize much of the region are chronic sources of frustration for me. Places like Wake Forest are important intellectual resources in an area that doesn’t always appreciate the value of the life of the mind. </p>
<p>But a third of a century after graduating from Wake, I still live here and won’t leave, because I find that the things that make the South special are greater than the things that hold it back. You’ll find that people are genuinely warm, polite and friendly, and speak to you when you pass. You’ll find that it’s rude to shake hands and get down to business without first spending some time in pleasantries and fellowship-building. You’ll find that in the middle of winter, cold days have skies so brilliantly blue that they dazzle you.</p>
<p>And of course, you’ll find that Wake Forest is perhaps unique in the world of higher ed - a hybrid of a large LAC / small university with the assets of each, plus the athletics and school spirit usually associated with anonymous megaversities. You’ll love it. But grits and sweet tea aside, there’s one cultural norm with which you MUST become conversant before you become a Demon Deacon. The grits and tea are optional, this is not - you’ll be a far happier Wake student for investing in the following research:
[Beach</a> music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_music]Beach”>Beach music - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Once again, congratulations!</p>
<p>^^^^ Oh yeh – Shag on the Mag during Springfest!</p>
<p>Well wow it seems like I might go to Wake Forest indefinitely. How is the weather though there year round? Would it be too much to wish for snow and rain?</p>
<p>Usually one or two good snows per winter. Ice storms in the Carolinas are a bit of a problem - much more treacherous than snow, and the ice accumulation on tree limbs causes them to snap off and fall.</p>
<p>A “good” snow can be as little as an inch. No one drives if they can help it and schools shut down. This is the first year we’ve gotten more than half an inch or so for years now, but yeah. But rain is rain is rain…supposedly we’ve been in a drought for like 3 years or something. Idk. It still rains.</p>