This is the official discussion thread for Wake Forest Class of 2029 RD applicants. Ask your questions and connect with fellow applicants.
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Any word yet on Presidential Scholarship?
When do the RD decisions come out?
I don’t know.
I feel like in years past it’s been the very beginning of March for the Presidential?
Replying to my own reply 
to let everyone know that it seems they are starting to notify for the Presidential - my daughter got an email today that she is a finalist for dance.
Congrats! Same here. Super exciting.
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What are y’all’s stats??
Last year was March 22.
14 ap’s, 3.86 uw, 34 act, 4 yrs varsity athletics, 4 yrs volunteer, 4 yrs law enforcement ec, 12 yrs piano highest leve, 2 yrs pt job, strong recs (Spanish/math), eagle scout, club vp/pres. i don’t have many academic awards/achievements and my ec’s aren’t research/academic focus.
got rejected to rice ed2 last week. wake is up there for me and i visited campus during the summer, so hit the demonstrated interest hard.
Wow! That is some good stats! Are you in state? Does that even matter with Wake?
Wake is private, so in-state vs. out-of-state is not necessarily a factor like it would be for Chapel Hill, NC State, etc.
Anyone know how many applications awake received this year ED, EA or RD? How many acceptances have already gone out?
I have a 4.367 weighted GPA and a 3.8 unweighted. I’m ranked 25/176 students. I’ve had 2 part time jobs for all four years of high school! I’m in the National Honors Society, Secretary of Interact Club (recycle every Thursday, clean our local park and high school once a month, increase biodiversity, started animal shelter drive where we collected animal necessities), Parliamentarian of HOSA, started and led blood drive where we gathered over 80 kids to donated during school, reads books to elderly at retirement centers, qualified for state, in a club called Global Lens where we volunteer at food bank at least twice a month, empathized with individuals there and made them feel welcome, volunteered every week to help immigrants from Mexico, Ukraine, Venezuela learn English. Volunteer every week to help students who are dual enrolled program and learn mathematics in Spanish and English. Varsity Cross Country for 2 years. UNC- Pardee Hospital lead MSO (Medical/Surgical/Oncology) Volunteer. 6 APs, 12 dual enrollment (47ish college credit hours), 11 honors classes, AP Scholar, A/B honor roll, NC Scholar Athelte.
Are you test optional? looks like you check many of the boxes WFU considers.
Unfortunately yes….I’ve only
Attempted the ACT and got a 25….. I could have gotten in the 30s to
Be completely honest but I just didn’t have time to study.
based on wf’s cds, a low percentage of applicants submit scores, so you’re in good company. i started with sat and scored in the low 1400’s - hated the adaptive testing. switched to act and squeaked out a decent score, probably could’ve gotten one point higher but wasn’t willing to put in the time.
will be interested to hear your outcome. I’m rooting for you!
Same here!! What state are you from? I’m in state (but that doesn’t matter apparently) I also applied to UNC, Davidson, snd College of the Holy Cross regular too (was waiting until my rank and GPA got better. I applied to NC-State early with everything same expect different GPA and rank (4.28 weighted and 3.8 unweighted and ranked 33/176) and I got deferred (as human bio major)…i changed my major to nutrition science so we’ll see and my senior grades boosted my stats
ok.