<p>capecodsammy. my son was in Johnson freshman year- met his best friends there. I will see if he can PM you. Congratulations to your son, Wake has been a wonderful experience.</p>
<p>My only word of caution, capecod, is that the decision to choose Johnson should be your son’s and NOT yours. It’s not like he will be forced to drink or do anything else if he’s in a regular dorm. I just can’t imagine it would be a positive experience for him if he didn’t want to live in a sub-free dorm, but you forced him to do it.</p>
<p>“do you have to try out, or can a beginner join the team”</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you need to try out for all club teams. You do not need to try out for intramurals, too. If you’re interested in something like this, you should send an email to the appropriate place (since I do not play sports here, I’m not really sure where that would be).</p>
<p>"Another kind of random question, hows the weather in Winston-Salem?</p>
<p>Sunny most times? Rainy? Does it snow a lot in the winter? Is there any kind of natural disasters, like earthquakes and tornadoes, you get the idea, that might be a concern?</p>
<p>Thanks"</p>
<p>I LOVE THE WEATHER HERE. As previously stated, I’m from New Jersey. The weather here is so much nicer. This year, we got a decent amount of snow here, which isn’t normal and was really annoying, but most years apparently the weather is much nicer. It also stays warmer longer into the winter and gets warmer quickly after the winter. It’s usually sunny. It’s rained like one or two times in the past week and a half, although it definitely rains here. It is SO much better than New Jersey though. </p>
<p>I don’t think we get tornadoes and hurricanes. We had a tornado warning a few weeks ago but we obviously didn’t get one. I think we’re similar to NJ in that respect – lots of warnings but it doesn’t really happen. No real weather “problems” so far in my experience here!</p>
<p>do students who have low EFCs get financial aid packages with less loans (as in more grant money) than those who dont.</p>
<p>"We went to the Campus day yesterday and the decision has been made that my son is going to go to Wake. I would really like him to be in Johnson Dorm. He has never been into the party scene at all. Never tasted alchohol. I know from everything I have read and talking to students that he needs to be ready for a heavy work load at Wake.</p>
<p>And he needs to be ready right off the bat so that he gets off to a great start.</p>
<p>Common sense tells me he is better off at Johnson and away from a lot of the other issues that are bound to happen at other dorms.
I do not want to necessarily make it a demand that he lives there but I would love to have more ammunition when we get into the decision phase.
Your thoughts?"</p>
<p>I think that you absolutely have your son’s best interest in mind. I think that the decision should be his – I’ll use my hall as an example. On the girl’s side of my hall, everyone drinks, but in varying degrees. There are people who have drank once or twice, and people who drink every weekend. On the boy’s side, there are people who have never drank and do not plan to, and people who drink all the time. </p>
<p>There are definitely pluses and minuses about living in Johnson, and I will explain them (in my opinion, of course). A plus is that it’s quieter, you know your roommate will not come home drunk, there will be other people around who would be more likely to go to sober events (although many people from other dorms will as well), and Johnson is in a very convenient location on campus. However, a big minus in my opinion is that it sort of shelters the students. No one in “regular” housing will force you to drink if you do not want to. I just find that more people in other dorms like to go out, period, whether it involves alcohol or not. I think that this is all part of the college experience. Even the people on my floor who do not drink say that they have benefited from living in my dorm instead of Johnson. Plus, in other dorms, if you do drink and get caught, the penalties are less severe than if you are Johnson (and signed the sub-free agreement, which is necessary if you request sub-free housing). </p>
<p>Overall, it depend which environment he would like to be in. Some people love Johnson, and some people are miserable there. If I were in your position, I would let him make his own decision on that one, and just trust him to make the responsible decision when it comes to drinking and partying. Plus, students in all the other dorms work very hard as well. Everyone at Wake is a hard worker. If he thinks that Johnson is for him, then more power to him! I just think that there is something to be said about living in a more mixed dorm. I am not discouraging Johnson, but I do believe that it is not right for everyone. Good luck, and congrats on deciding on Wake! Yay!</p>
<p>Pink- I think you have a future in the diplomatic corp. What a charmingly worded and well thought out response.</p>
<p>if you are that concerned about him drinking then chances are that you have taught him to act smart and behave well! he will do what he has learned…he is not going to become a drunken mess because he lives in a non-Johnson dorm</p>
<p>Do you know how responsive the administration is to roommate problems? In other words, do you know of anyone who was in a bad situation and what was done?</p>
<p>I don’t know what was done, but I do know of some people who switched rooms. Not many, though. I think that most people get along well enough with their roommates to last the year. I actually know more people who had problems when they were upperclassmen and got to pick their own roommates.</p>
<p>“Pink- I think you have a future in the diplomatic corp. What a charmingly worded and well thought out response.”</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>“Do you know how responsive the administration is to roommate problems? In other words, do you know of anyone who was in a bad situation and what was done?”</p>
<p>Very responsive. I don’t know anyone who wanted to get out of their roommate situation and couldn’t. I know a couple of people who were really unhappy with their roommates and they all switched rooms. Not many people have serious roommate issues, though.</p>
<p>1) Most importantly, what DONT you like about Wake (there has to be some things, so be honest please!)</p>
<p>This is for a transfer student so…</p>
<p>2) Do dorms have kitchens?
3) Do any rooms have their own bathrooms/showers?
4) Do you know where transfer students would be put?</p>
<p>Thanks Pink Cupcake!</p>
<p>I lived in Johnson freshman year, I thought it was a nice transition from me, because I was kind of sheltered coming out of high school. I’m not sure how I would react if my roommate came back drunk and urinated in my trashcan or something, but seriously I think it would have made my adjustment to college a bit more difficult. It is a personal choice, every individual should know themselves well enough.</p>
<p>In terms of cons about Wake Forest. I think a lot of people take themselves too seriously in a variety of ways. However, that is how it is everywhere and you will find people you like to be around. I also think the school caters to Calloway too much, but I understand that too, because I suppose thats where the money is. Still, its frustrating in terms of career services and professional development how they neglect the liberal arts, but this too is changing.</p>
<p>Every large dorm has a communal kitchen (at least I think so–every dorm I ever lived in had a kitchen). In general, most people don’t use them all that much. Everyone has a mini-fridge/microwave unit in their individual dorm rooms, and that’s enough for most people. In the student apartments and in Polo (where it’s unlikely that you’ll be housed as a new transfer) there’s a kitchen in each unit, so it’s shared by 2-4 people.</p>
<p>Who you share a bathroom with will differ depending on what dorm you’re in. There are suites where you’ll share a bathroom with 5-7 other people and there are halls where you’ll share with half a hall or something. When you get a little more seniority, you can opt for some of the apartment-style places where you’ll share with 1-3 other people.</p>
<p>Where you’ll be housed is basically anywhere there’s room. I think that most transfer students end up in one of dorms on the quad.</p>
<p>As far as something that I didn’t like at Wake…
I think that it was a small enough school that I couldn’t really focus on one thing with respect to extra-curricular activities. Friends at other schools often had one thing that they really did (a sport, or a musical group, or an academic club or something like that) and then dabbled in some other areas. At Wake, people tend to be heavily involved in a number of organizations. I think that this lead me to have a somewhat fractured group of friends who didn’t know each other all that well, though they all knew me well. I’m not totally sure that this was a bad thing, because I think that I was closer to my friends than I would have been if they were all close to each other as well, but it did lead to times where I had to miss doing something with one set of friends because I was doing something different with another set. This may have sometimes lead to some hurt feelings.</p>
<p>Wnec - It seems to me that you are transferring to a school that you know almost nothings about. I suggest you visit. Also, please refrain from asking questions that are answered on the Wake website. I will answer these, but next time, PLEASE check the website first. </p>
<p>1) Most importantly, what DONT you like about Wake (there has to be some things, so be honest please!)</p>
<p>I don’t like that there are bigger bugs here than in NJ, I didn’t like my first semester Spanish teacher, I hate the class registration system, I don’t like that Wake isn’t by New York City, I don’t like that the library closes on Friday evenings, I don’t like that I have to take some form of science, and I don’t like that Wake isn’t really that diverse. I don’t like the problems that the administration has with Greek life right now, and I don’t like that Wake is expanding. </p>
<p>This is for a transfer student so…</p>
<p>2) Do dorms have kitchens?</p>
<p>All dorms have kitchens. </p>
<p>3) Do any rooms have their own bathrooms/showers?</p>
<p>Please look at the dorm floor plans on the Wake website. For each dorm, bathrooms, showers, & kitchens are labeled. </p>
<p>4) Do you know where transfer students would be put?</p>
<p>I really have no idea. My best guess would be Palmer/Piccolo since they are newly-converted upperclassmen dorms, but I have no idea. You should call and ask.</p>
<p>thanks. im done with questions. and everyone here asks questions that could be potentially answered on the website if one looked hard enough. </p>
<p>when you visit a college…the tour guide BS you and tell you no one drinks and everyones really smart and its really diverse and blah blah blah…yes i took a tour at wake forest albeit 2 years ago. Because I made a wrong decision my first time around I’m asking a lot of questions to make sure this doesnt happen again. It’s not that easy to just pick up and visit wake on an off weekend…who would I stay with? I know no one there…</p>
<p>Thanks for your help tho all 3 who answered and pink you have been extremely helpful on this site so thanks. but if you don’t wanna answer a question, then you don’t have to!</p>
<p>“thanks. im done with questions. and everyone here asks questions that could be potentially answered on the website if one looked hard enough”</p>
<p>Not always! Certain things (more subjective things), cannot be answered on the website. Some other things are much more difficult to locate. For floor plans, go to [Wake</a> Forest University — Winston-Salem, North Carolina](<a href=“http://www.wfu.edu%5DWake”>http://www.wfu.edu), click “Students” -> Resident Life & Housing -> Residence Halls and you can see the floor plans for every dorm. It’ll even tell you what the floor is made of, average room size, window treatments, sinks (y/n), etc, and you can see where the kitchens & bathrooms are. </p>
<p>“when you visit a college…the tour guide BS you and tell you no one drinks and everyones really smart and its really diverse and blah blah blah…yes i took a tour at wake forest albeit 2 years ago.”</p>
<p>Here the tour guides are mostly accurate. I took a Wake tour, and I found that most of the information was true. My tour guide didn’t lie to me about the drinking thing – they sort of can’t since they have to explain Johnson to everyone. </p>
<p>“Because I made a wrong decision my first time around I’m asking a lot of questions to make sure this doesnt happen again. It’s not that easy to just pick up and visit wake on an off weekend…who would I stay with? I know no one there…”</p>
<p>Definitely understandable. Picking a school is hard sometimes, and I understand because I applied to Miami yet couldn’t visit because I didn’t have time (however, I wasn’t super-seriously considering it, otherwise I would have made time). If you can spend a little more money, there are LOTS of hotels around here that you can stay in – some are really really close to campus. Otherwise, you can call the school and try to be matched with a student to stay with. Lots of prospective freshmen are housed in my current dorm, actually. </p>
<p>“Thanks for your help tho all 3 who answered and pink you have been extremely helpful on this site so thanks. but if you don’t wanna answer a question, then you don’t have to!”</p>
<p>No problem 
I hope that Wake ends up working out for you. It seems to be much, much different from Miami in many respects.</p>
<p>If you are a minority (Indian from Asian subcontinent), is it still possible to join a frat? </p>
<p>And im worried about the fitting in here, like I visited and all the black kids were sitting together and all the asians were together… i didnt see one minority with white kids. right now i have all white friends, literally not one other indian friend. will this be a problem at wake for fitting in?</p>
<p>"If you are a minority (Indian from Asian subcontinent), is it still possible to join a frat? </p>
<p>And im worried about the fitting in here, like I visited and all the black kids were sitting together and all the asians were together… i didnt see one minority with white kids. right now i have all white friends, literally not one other indian friend. will this be a problem at wake for fitting in?"</p>
<p>Hi! I don’t think this will be an issue – some frats are more accepting than others are. There are some frats who are notorious for only having white kids, but the majority don’t care if you’re green or purple. I don’t know many Indians who are in frats here, but I definitely know other Asians & African-Americans who are in fraternities. As long as you have a good personality and get along with the brothers, you have a good chance of getting a bid. Plus, most people who do not get bids should not attribute that to their race – fraternity pledge classes are very small, so they are relatively selective. I have friends here of other races, if that helps (I’m white). Just be confident in yourself! If you are not accepted by a particular group because of your race, then that’s their loss. However, I do not believe that a great majority of fraternities here will take race into consideration.</p>
<p>During the April 9 accepted students day a number of students spoke about their experiences at WF. I could be wrong, but I thought one of them identified himself as being from an Indian (from India) family. He was elected to an important position in student government freshman year, which apparently is unusual. It sounded like he has done extremely well- he was a Rhodes scholar finalist. Why not call admissions and ask if there is a current Indian student you could talk to?</p>