Wake Forest University is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known as the city of arts and innovation, home to the Krispy Kreme donut!  Wake is very much an active residential campus with 5400 students.  Students are required to live on campus for three years.  This doesn’t seem like a hardship since the 340 acre campus is gorgeous.  With Division One sports including powerhouse basketball and many students participating in club and intramural sports, Wake’s campus is very spirited.  In fact, about half of the students attend all of the home basketball games.  When students want to explore beyond campus, the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains are only ninety minutes away.

Impressive Statistics:  Wake has a flexible liberal arts curriculum with an engaged faculty.  Research is a hallmark of Wake with thirty percent of undergrads publishing their work.  Forty-five percent of students participate in two research projects facilitated by professors.  While Wake has the facilities of a larger university, the average class size is 20 students.  Seventy-eight percent of students study abroad in one of 400 programs in 200 cities.

Greek Life:  Wake has a bit of a Southern school feel and is very Greek!  Thirty-five percent of men and sixty percent of women participate.  What is a bit different is that a portion of Greek housing is reserved for non-Greek students, making the housing more inclusive.

STEM:  Wake Forest just opened a 150,000 square foot hub state of the art STEM research building in downtown Winston-Salem.  This facility will support all of the STEM programs including engineering which, at Wake Forest, has a liberal arts orientation.   With this downtown facility, undergrads have access to the medical school as a resource.

Traditions:  There are many traditions at Wake.  One of the many is Hit the Bricks, an eight hour relay race that benefits cancer research funding.  Students run along a brick path pathway in honor of Wake alum Brian Piccolo, a Chicago Bears running back who passed away from cancer at a young age.

Rolling Early Decision:  Applying to Wake through Early Decision is different from most other colleges.  Students who apply will hear at the end of the month following their application.  At least fifty percent of the incoming class is admitted through Early Decision.

Goldwater scholarship:  Wake is tied with MIT for most students in the country receiving this prestigious scholarship.

Wake students “work hard and play hard.”