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.
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
List five books you’ve read that have intrigued you. Then, explain how a book you’ve read has helped you to understand the world’s complexity (limit: 150 words). What piques your intellectual curiosity, and why (limit: 150 words)? Give us your Top Ten list. (The choice […]
Categories: Application for Admission
The pursuit of scientific discovery can be as much about uncovering new truths about yourself as about entering the unknown physical world — discovering the discoverer — learning how you respond to new challenges, dead ends, or unexpected finds. It helps, when embarking on this […]
Categories: Academics
Undergraduate research is a major focus of Wake Forest University, a 5,200-undergraduate, test-optional, liberal-arts school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an 11:1 student-faculty ratio, 45 majors, and 60 minors. Through our Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center, we help students find professors, […]
Categories: Information Sessions
We went test-optional more than a decade ago, so we know options work. That’s why Wake Forest Admissions wants to give you even more. You know you best, so you’ll decide the best way to tell us the story of you. This year’s application will […]
Categories: Application for Admission
The poet Walt Whitman believed in moral change. Wake Forest does too – that everyone is capable of a higher moral intention. We call this altruism Pro Humanitate – “for humanity” – and, like Whitman, we believe it can be achieved through a variety of […]
Categories: Academics