<p>For people who have attend or used to attend wake forest did you ever feel trapped in due to lack of a college town?</p>
<p>I’ve visited many times, and my older brother is an alum, and he rarely felt trapped (especially recently, with the addition of a shuttle line from the campus into into neighboring Winston-Salem). Also, if you’d like something closer, there is a small number of shops & restaurants at Reynolda Village (which is adjacent to the school).</p>
<p>LOL. I always crack up at comments like this. Its not like college administrators chain you to the dorms and have armed guards with barbed wire around the campus. Well maybe at Bob Jones University…</p>
<p>Its up to YOU to explore a community, region etc and find things to do. North Carolina is a beautiful state with mountains, rivers, lakes, national forests, beaches, outer banks islands, big cities, medium and small cities. Major interstates, country roads. New glistening buildings and old majestic historic buildings. New ideas and honored traditions. Its a very diverse state in every respect.</p>
<p>Not that ACC football and basketball and soccer won’t be enough to entertain you when you aren’t studying.</p>
<p>My son is going to be a sophomore at Wake Forest and he just loves it! He is in no way trapped on campus - that’s actually kind of funny. He did not take a car with him freshman year - but many of his friends have cars. They frequently leave campus to go to movies, out to eat, to sporting events at other colleges and to concerts. He actually does things off-campus more than I expected. There is plenty to do on-campus as well. I have never heard him complain about a lack of things to do.</p>
<p>thanks thats what i thought</p>
<p>Sounds like confirmation of what I have heard - if you want to access something off campus, you need a car (or a willing friend with a car).</p>
<p>I would agree that it is much easier to do things off campus if you or your friends have a car. But, so many students do have cars that it does not seem to be an issue. My son had a great RA - with a car - and he was very helpful in that regard. It just was not an issue.</p>
<p>Having a car is easier, but it is not a necessity. They have really made strives to make downtown Winston-Salem more accessible with a shuttle system. I think it depends what sort of person you are though, but for most it is great to create a smaller community of your classmates on campus.</p>
<p>Wake also provides charter buses for major events - like some of the away football games.</p>
<p>My best friend goes to Wake, and she absolutely loves it. She doesn’t have a car either, but has never complained of feeling confined or trapped in the small town.</p>
<p>I never did. Of course, W-S is a city of about a quarter-million and the downtown’s only 3 or 4 miles away, so it’s not remote. We went downtown frequently, went to the mall, skied in the mountains, headed to the beach, went to away games at UNC, State and Duke, etc. And, there are great places to walk or jog adjacent to campus.</p>
<p>Since you’re “Wake” or “William”, I’d note that Williamsburg, though closer to the W&M campus than downtown W-S is to Wake, is not a very student-focused town either.</p>
<p>That’s funny - I did not catch the Wake or William & Mary name. Those were actually my son’s final 2 choices - he was accepted at both and visited both again last April. We, as a family, loved both schools. I would have been happy with either choice. In the end - his judgment was that academics were pretty equal at both schools, both campuses were attractive and both seemed to have plenty to do. The tipping point for him was that Wake seems to be more sports-oriented - and that was a very important distinction. But - you really can’t go wrong with either one.</p>
<p>My son had a car for senior year only, and never complained. If anything, the main reason he liked having it was to do help out friends that needed rides to the airport, mall, ect. It is nice, but by no means necessary.</p>
<p>I loved Wake, I’m a proud alum, met my wife there, no misgivings. But I was a VA resident and I never considered W&M - it was just “the state college” as far as I knew. No one ever explained to me that W&M was one of the most special places in American higher ed. In retrospect, I should have very strongly considered it.</p>
<p>W&M beat Wake in basketball last year:)</p>