<p>What academic subjects is Wake Forest best in? I saw they have neuroscience and neuroanatomy as majors, but I don't know if that makes the school a top premed or not.</p>
<p>Also, I'm into soccer even though I haven't been on an official team in years; I am trying out this fall hopefully and will make the varsity team at my highschool as a senior. Wake happens to be second in NCAA D1 for this year. That's pretty difficult to get into but are there any D2 or D3 teams? If not, can someone refer me to good soccer schools taht have at least D2/D1 and offer at least decent neuro programs? Thanks</p>
<p>I believe that there’s a neuroscience minor but not a major and no neuroanatomy major/minor. As far as premed goes, both the biology and the health and exercise science departments are good, which encompass most of the premed/pre-health professional students. Honestly, I don’t know if there’s really a “weak” department at Wake.</p>
<p>Wake does offer club soccer (the team plays other schools but only practices a few times a week and is not at a varsity/D1 level).</p>
<p>Thank you both. Even if I don’t join D1 soccer at Wake Forest Freshman year, will it be possible to join Sophomore, Junior, or even Senior years?</p>
<p>You could certainly play Club or Intramural Soccer. In terms of division 1 soccer at Wake Forest, it is one of the best programs in the country so unless you are getting recruited I doubt you would have that opportunity.</p>
<p>Wake Forest is very strong for pre-med in terms of getting students accepted to medical school.</p>
<p>Willmingtonwave, That’s pretty helpful about the premed programs. Do you know of anyone who got admitted to the soccer team without being recruited? I know for a fact that unless God gives me a miracle, I won’t be recruited for at least freshman year.</p>
<p>I knew of people not on scholarship, but even at the least most would be invited to walk on. </p>
<p>I think you need to weight attempting to play a division 1 sport presumably not on scholarship in addition to doing the pre-med requirements. As I said before, if you play varsity in high school and are good, club is a great option. I just think when you are looking at one of the best and most competitive D1 soccer programs in Wake Forest, you have to evaluate how realistic it is to play.</p>
<p>Most of the WF players will be on full athletic scholarships, which means that Wake will be paying them > $200,000 for their soccer skills. If you made the soccer team at WFU, it (and the coaching staff) would dictate to a larger extent the rest of your campus and academic experience. It’s not something that you could drop in and out of.</p>
<p>Actually, probably none of the soccer players are on full scholarship. The NCAA only gives a specific sport X number of scholarships, which they have to then divide among the number of rostered players. Men’s D1 teams only get 9.9 scholarships per team (women’s D1 gets 12).</p>
<p>Football and basketball players? They’re pretty much all on full schollys (with the exception of the walk-ons).</p>
<p>While I wouldn’t say it’s absolutely impossible for you to be able to walk on, keep in mind that those very few who do walk on probably have at a minimum four years of HS varsity experience and a good bit of club experience, probably at a decent level.</p>
<p>Gadad, I don’t plan on dropping out of soccer once I get on. I’ll definetely do my best to stay on.</p>
<p>Juba2jive, Those aren’t bad statistics. This means that I still have a chance on making the team because I know that unless God sends me a miracle, I can’t expect any scholarship for playing for WF. Thanks.</p>