@cltrising, I don’t know if you looked at the study I linked, but the specific finding was that Wake’s performance on this metric (how lower-quartile students did with upward mobility after graduation), was lower than that for comparable schools. So this is clearly not a “pervasive systemic issue” that all schools have. Some schools do better, and some schools do worse. Wake is on the worse end of the spectrum.
The fact that there’s another school with a worse track record doesn’t mean that Wake’s performance is good compared to its peers, right? It just means it would be a bigger mistake to go to Davidson than to Wake lol.
And no one is “condemning” Wake. The comment is that it may not be a great match for a particular type of student. High-stat students from affluent families will likely be very happy at Wake, and have success in life. But I think those types of families should not use this forum to shame and silence posters from different backgrounds who have had different experiences.
I hope we could all agree that applicants who are relatively weaker, or from less well-resourced backgrounds, have a right to a balanced picture of what they could expect their experience at the school to be like.