<p>I am a freshman at Wake Forest and I was just accepted as a transfer student to UVA, which was my first choice but was wait listed my first time around. I really like Wake Forest but I hear great things about UVA and from my two day visitis have loved it, and I plan to do business and McIntire is amazing!! Should I risk leaving a school I really like to go to a school that I THINK I will like more and is much better in my field??</p>
<p>Porfavor Help!!!</p>
<p>It sounds like you are happy where you are. Why don’t you make a list of the pros/cons of each and see which school comes out on top?</p>
<p>UVA comes out on top in terms of quantity but more importantly also in quality of pros, comes down to two factors, Can I leave a school I love? How can I not attend a school tht is tops in the country in my field (business) and I will almost surely love?</p>
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<p>Only you can answer that.
You know yourself better than any one of us knows you.</p>
<p>I think you should just because it seems to be a fantastic opportunity that will prepare you in the long run and that would go the other way around too.</p>
<p>I wanted to go to UVa because it would be the perfect mix for me as a first year of independence/closeness to home but my parents nudged me to accept my full-tuition scholarship at WashU. Even though I love Cville and community at UVa, I’m so glad/relieved to have chosen the logically better option and it’s only a day later.</p>
<p>McIntire…are you sure you are going to get a seat in it…? As a transfer? </p>
<p>Wake also has a very strong business program…and accounting pathway is excellent I recall</p>
<p>Three years however…is enough time to make UVA your second college home…</p>
<p>I applaud you regardless for having done a good job at Wake Forest first year…respect for Wake paid off for you …you win if you stay and you win if you go</p>
<p>dont go to UVA. its racist
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<p>Stupefy, your continued bitterness at not being accepted at what you thought was your safety school is hardly becoming. But OP, if you’re happy at Wake, you might as well stay there. There’s a certain amount of disruption in transferring.</p>
<p>Thanks alot for the comments and opinions guys, I am going to see UVA next week and make sure I am not making a huge mistake. Right now I am leaning towards UVA mostly because of academics, should I not be doing that?, or is the business at UVA significantly better where it should influence my decision?</p>
<p>As a white female, Stupefy feels <em>fiercely oppressed</em> for having been waitlisted at UVA and thus calls it racist, hilarious</p>
<p>I’m not white. get your facts straight before you try to attack me. I’ve mentioned numerous times that I am in fact Asian. so yes, I would feel oppressed in such a situation. and from what I’ve heard, that’s not an isolated incident. My friend’s sibling attend UVA and says there is much more racial segregation than in most schools</p>
<p>Seriously? “dont go to UVA. its racist” UVA made the right choice in not accepting you after all.</p>
<p>okay enough with the racist stuff, dont really care, and its not, how bout some helpful advice</p>
<p>UVa is a very diverse place where anyone can succeed and meet people from different cultures and backgrounds with very little effort.</p>
<p>Anamnum…you have not indicated if you are guaranteed a seat in McIntire as a transfer student. If so, you could leave Wake without much regret. I realize you would perhaps have a harder time socially at first having missed the freshman experience but UVA takes in many transfers and is a pretty fluid place. </p>
<p>Will you also save money at UVA?</p>
<p>You haven’t indicated</p>
<p>I will be saving around 8 thousand a year, and am not guaranteed a seat in McIntire because the time to apply is not for another semester, or is there some way in which I still could have been guaranteed a seat?? I will look further into that when i visit again next week, and Calloway, Wake’s Business school, has many of the same pre reqs as McIntire, and I have done well in those classes, and will work my ass off in order to get into McIntire once at UVA, so lets just say for these purposes that I would get in.</p>
<p>If the cost was equal, it wouldn’t make much sense to leave a place that you love. But 8,000 x 3 is significant.</p>
<p>agreed…UVA has a very broad network of alum as well even if you don’t get into McIntire (hope you do). Job opps are good out of UVA in this sad economy. That said, “Work” Forest is a respected institution in the business world and no slacker in offering real world courses to undergrads. You will likely get to know your Profs better at Wake Forest…you will find broader horizons in peers at UVA just based on numbers…I happen to like Wake.</p>
<p>You can’t lose. I think I would go on to UVA if you want an honest to goodness random opinion. Broader Social horizons, and a public school with that something in the air that money can’t buy in a private school…a wellspring of American thought and cultural roots.</p>
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<p>wow.</p>
<p>I’d go to UVA if I were you. These schools are both highly regarded, but very different. I applied to Wake and was accepted, but opted for UVA, but I’m not in business. Nonetheless, UVA has a huge alumni network, proximity to the east coast network, and has a very different feel from Wake. >>Much more blended with the CVL community: the Corner, the Downtown area. It’s really a city and UVA is integrated into that.
Wake is fairly smaller, as you know, very isolated from the city of Winston Salem. Not much contact with the community. It’s a great University, but just a different feel from UVA.
Good luck, either way, you’ll do well at either of these institutions. But, heck, if you’ll be saving $8K a year at UVA (if I understand you correctly), come to UVA…don’t walk, run!!
I also sort of feel like you genuinely want to come to UVA and that someday you’ll be saying “why didn’t I go to UVA when I had the chance”?<br>
That’s not a statement against Wake (great school). There’s just a hint of emotional twang in your postings; well, that’s my take on it 
~powder</p>