There’s a lot to know about the admissions process, and we have a lot to share with you. Our blog will help guide you the entire way.
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
Thank you for your patience, as you have awaited news from the Admissions Committee. Our staff has been hard at work over the last few months, and we write to share an update. But before we do, we would first like to take a moment […]
Categories: Accepted Students, Application for Admission
Studying abroad is a dream, and Wake Forest will help you to make it a reality. Most Wake Forest students choose to study abroad/away. In fact, 80% of our undergraduates have an academic study-abroad experience. This number is among the highest in the nation and […]
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
3/26/22 Update: The waitlist webinar will be held on April 7 at 7:00 p.m. Keep an eye on your inbox for registration information. By now, many of you who applied to Wake Forest have received your decision from the Admissions Committee. And while that news […]
Categories: Application for Admission
February 23, 1960: eleven Black students from Winston-Salem State Teachers College are joined by ten white students from Wake Forest University to protest segregation at lunch counters in North Carolina. Police arrest them that day and take them to jail. This is part of the beginning of […]
Categories: General
We invite you to experience Wake Forest University – a 5,400-undergraduate, test-optional, liberal-arts school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an 11:1 student-faculty ratio, 45 majors, and 60 minors – through an in-person tour. You will learn more about all that our university offers, through […]
Categories: Campus Tours, Information Sessions