Just a few months after Wake Forest College admitted its first Black student, the college invited the first Black speaker to campus – The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. The year was 1962. But it wasn’t for another 30 years that a recording of […]
Categories: General, Uncategorized
At Wake Forest University, the arts belong to everyone! In fact, more than 90% of the students who participate in performing arts organizations choose to major in something other than the arts. We seek out creative students to enrich our campus community by offering Presidential Scholarships for those […]
Categories: Academics, Scholarships
Wake Forest University is proud to call North Carolina home, and we want to make sure that North Carolina high school students have the resources you need for a successful college application. We would like to invite you to a series of virtual sessions hosted […]
Categories: Information Sessions
Being considered and recognized are fundamental and positive parts of lived experience. We hope you’ve been able to find that appreciative voice within yourself, but we’d also like the chance to consider and recognize you and your hard work. To give us that opportunity, if […]
Categories: Application for Admission
Heroes are those who are secure enough to be gracious, who recognize the communities from which they came, and who, after achieving their childhood dreams, embrace adult responsibilities. Here are examples of heroes from Wake Forest: Founder of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, […]
Categories: Career Outcomes
Wake Forest University is a 5,200-undergraduate, liberal-arts, test-optional school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an 11:1 student-faculty ratio and more than 45 majors and 60 minors. And our undergraduate business program in the School of Business is ranked Number 13 nationally in 2021 by Poets and Quants, a […]
Categories: Academics, Campus Tours, Information Sessions
The Engaged Liberal Arts is the cross-section where classroom concepts meet real-world experience, and it’s the heart of our mission at Wake Forest University. Through our Engaged Liberal Arts philosophy, we invite students to explore themselves and their world, as global citizens committed to […]
Categories: Academics, Application for Admission, Campus Tours, Information Sessions
Following is some advice for submitting a video to Wake Forest University Admissions. Although the video example farther below uses the 2021 video prompt – and not the 2023 prompt options (which are written out right below this introduction) – the guidance given herein is […]
Categories: Application for Admission, Interviews
You may write – and even submit! – your Wake Forest application as of today. You’ve been applying yourself for years in high school; now, at long last, it’s time for the next tier. If you’re ready to experience the joys, invigoration, challenge, and […]
Categories: Application for Admission
Most of us need a job, and Wake Forest will help you achieve that – (over the last nine years, an average of 96% of our graduates were employed or attending graduate school within six months of graduation) – but also much more: we’ll […]
Categories: General
