<p>Researching colleges, I have really begun to notice Wake Forest and it seems like a good fit for me. However, I haven't visited the campus yet. For those who have visited Wake Forest or attended the school, what did you think about it as a whole? How was the campus atmosphere? What schools did you prefer over Wake Forest?</p>
<p>Wake is one of the smallest of the national universities, and it’s really more of a LAC-university hybrid, especially its smaller and less popular departments. In fact, it has fewer large classes than some of the top LACs. </p>
<p>I have visited (and attended) entirely too many colleges at this point, and Wake students are still by far the friendliest I’ve encountered. The campus is gorgeous with a good blend of tasteful brick and magnolias, and the student body has become increasingly moderate (or even left of center) and diverse. It still has strides to make in this area, however. School spirit is strong, especially during basketball season. The classrooms and student buildings are very nice – I remember the labs could’ve used some work, but that was some time ago, so that may have improved. </p>
<p>I ultimately enrolled at a higher ranked university because it offered more for my pretty specialized interests and the merit package was impossible to reject, but I don’t doubt that I would’ve been very happy at Wake. It really is a terrific school.</p>
<p>If you visit Wake, take the time to visit Davidson as well, which is a relatively short drive from Winston-Salem (1-1.5 hours). Like Wake, it gets ignored on these forums due to its southern location but is a superb college. </p>
Wake is a great school, work hard, play hard, excellent professors and friendly students and great recruitment opportunities. I am a rising junior and love the school, highly recommend it.
visited Wake and Davidson as mentioned above. I can confirm everything that @warblersrule wrote. very pretty. pretty cool that they have d1 sports for such a small school
Awesome place and awesome school. It reminds me a lot of Boston College.