Wake Forest University

Date: Oct 27 2004
Major: Political Science (This Major's Salary over time)
Wake is an amazing school if you are willing to look past its flaws - yeah, it's Greek. Yeah, it's pretty white. Yeah, it's pretty wealthy. But there are plenty of people on scholarship or with loans, plenty of kids who are thinking and working outside the box, tons of brilliant minds gathering together and speaking with elevated vocabularies - it's an intellectual place, minus the binge drinking nights.

Socially, it can be quieter than most of its peer institutions - if you don't want to work hard, you don't want to be at Wake. But for all my classes, the work has been worth it. Even the little crappy papers have taught me something, even if it's just how to edit my writing more concisely. Anyway, I'm not Greek but tons of my friends are and I have a great social life without doing many sorority/frat functions at all. As long as you get involved in a non-Greek organization, you're going to meet fun, interesting, exciting, perhaps even artsy, less typical wake students. They exist. And even people that you try to pidgeon-hole into the rich bitch stereotype pop out of the box that you've put them in.

If you enjoy working hard and drinking harder, don't mind rich people and high fashion, and appreciate hard working professors, go to wake. As simple as that.