At Wake Forest University — a liberal-arts school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an 11:1 student-faculty ratio, 45 majors, and 60 minors — you will find a community committed to creating opportunities for you to grow and thrive, both academically and personally. If you come […]
Categories: Application for Admission, Campus Life, Campus Tours, Pro Humanitate, WFU27
This is a message that will only be pertinent to a relatively small group of you. If you have chosen to submit your Common Application between the dates of August 1 and August 15: If you are using the Common Application to apply to Wake […]
Categories: Application for Admission, WFU27
Where did the summer go?! It seems that just yesterday we were celebrating our newest Wake Forest graduates and inviting a new class of students to join us in Winston-Salem—yet my colleagues and I now find ourselves thinking about the fall. As these summer days […]
Categories: Application for Admission, WFU27
We write today with a final update for those who remain on the waitlist: It has been a historic year for admission at Wake Forest, regarding the size of our applicant pool, the qualifications of those who applied, and the composition of the incoming class. […]
Categories: Accepted Students
List five books you’ve read that have intrigued you. Explain how a text you’ve read – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or literature of any kind – has helped you to understand the world’s complexity (limit: 150 words). What piques your intellectual curiosity, and why (limit: 150 […]
Categories: Application for Admission, Campus Tours, Information Sessions, WFU27
We hope you’ll visit our beautiful campus this summer! Due to exams and semester’s end, we are unfortunately unable to offer student-led campus tours in May, but we will resume them in June! The details are below. And please don’t forget: self-guided tours are always […]
Categories: Campus Tours
Here’s one of our favorite Wake Forest stories: One of our graduates hid a secret letter for his sister in the library stacks. Being seven years older, he had no idea if she’d attend Wake Forest to find it – but trusted she would. He […]
Categories: Accepted Students
How’d you like to have an economist, a linguist, a biophysicist, and a choreographer visit your residence hall weekly? That’s what Wake Forest University’s Faculty Fellows program provides. So that you may be enlightened even when outside the classroom, Faculty Fellows gives you regular access […]
Categories: Academics, Campus Tours, General
To those on our waitlist, We know that the waitlist can be a frustrating place to be, so we would like to help you understand the Wake Forest waitlist process. Please join us on Thursday, April 7, at 7:00 p.m. ET for the Wake Forest […]
Categories: Application for Admission
Dear Class of 2026, Congratulations on your admission to Wake Forest University! We look forward to seeing you in the fall! You have chosen the right place to nurture the qualities of the liberal arts: the ability to think critically and creatively, to attend to […]
Categories: Accepted Students
