Absolutely.
Interestingly, we sort of felt the same way about St Andrews’s dual degree partner, William & Mary. To me it is very comparable to such privates, and yet at full pay it is significantly less.
Again I understand there are people for whom that amount is still too much. But as I recall, Wake was going to run us around $20K more a year than William & Mary, and like $30K more a year than St Andrews. That’s a decent difference, enough that I think even a lot of full pay families might see it as a worthy consideration.