Why should outstanding students apply to Wake Forest University? What better place for them to learn, thrive, and realize their full potential than in a community that celebrates the life of the mind?
These students are curious, creative, and eager to explore. So is Wake Forest. They view the world as their classroom and regard the future as theirs to shape. So does Wake Forest. They are focused and driven to make a difference. So is Wake Forest.
Lively minds, and a place that values the life of the mind. It’s hard to imagine a better match.
One of the nation’s most respected private liberal arts schools, Wake Forest is a collegiate university that provides the resources — academic, physical, and spiritual — to guide motivated students as they find their place here and in the world. Wake Forest offers the brightest and most inquisitive students a vibrant residential academic community where ideas are exchanged and debated in small classes, residence halls, and social spaces.
With 4,500 undergraduates and a student-faculty ratio of 10:1, Wake Forest provides the intimacy and individual attention characteristic of America’s most selective private institutions. At the same time, Wake Forest is a world-class university with the academic reputation and research activity usually found at larger major universities.
Its graduate school of arts and sciences, along with professional schools in law, medicine, management, and divinity, enriches the intellectual environment and provides robust resources to undergraduates, as do extensive co-curricular programs including international studies, entrepreneurship activities, and undergraduate research.
Among their classmates and friends, students will find Fulbright and Truman scholars, champion debaters, budding entrepreneurs, and accomplished artists and student-athletes. Wake Forest’s undergraduate business school consistently has the highest passing rate in the country on the CPA exam.
