No but first round of decisions did come out tonight, classmate was denied. Submitted my application Aug 20 and all other required docs were submitted Aug 26th (ish) but couldn’t get interview until Sept 2nd so I am assuming that put me into next month’s batch of decisions, so the wait continues until the end of October. Ugh
How long ago did classmate hear?
Our application was completed in early/mid August, had an interview in late August and have not heard back yet. Checked email, Common App, Wake Forest portal and nothing.
Aug came out today at 7:00pm. Does that mean the Sept group will likely come out on 10/31? Or will they do the week earlier?
What exactly defines “August”?
Asking as it seems it does not necessarily mean someone who submitted and completed their application - and interview - in August.
Last year, it was everything bring recorded in their portal/system by the end of the month. So my DD turned her application in the evening of Sep 30 but it wasn’t clocked in until Oct 1. I think that would have been enough to kick her to November, but then her school also didn’t get their pieces in until the first days of October. I know Wake’s website says “try” or something like that so maybe they don’t always get through all the applications from the prior month? I haven’t heard of that tho…
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Daughter submitted 8/1 and interview 8/22. All check marks on her portal 8/23 so application was considered completed. Heard at 7pm tonight. Accepted.
September group will hear on 10/31.
We heard at 7 PM EST. Sadly deferred. All checkmarks were on the portal by the end of August. Sad, but this early deferral gives the option to ED1 elsewhere.
Did you check the Your Application tab on the portal. The system takes you to Next Steps first, but the update was under Your Application.
Are there any current Wake parents here who have intel on entry to the business school?
In the presentation at our HS, the Wake representative minimized the secondary application process saying “about 80%” get in and as long as you have a certain GPA “95% get in” and the process is meant to just weed out students who are not serious. The certain GPA was not named. This is really different from what i understood– that it is a holistic process based on leadership in selective clubs, interview, grades and that only 60%ish accepted.
Was my understanding wrong? Did they change the process? Are they sugar-coating it??
DD is a first year so I can’t answer your direct question with personal experience. DD is interested in the b-school tho and I have gotten the sense that it is a competitive entry and people do get rejected. Not clear how much is grades vs other stuff, nor have I seen any hard numbers on acceptance rate. That seems highly guarded!
Two things: Wake expanded its first year class by 100+ students this year (1550 first years) and plans to continue that (so there will eventually be about 6k undergrads). No idea if b-school will grow its class. Second, new this year, they are starting undergrad minors in business and students don’t need to apply to the b-school for those.
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I am a parent of two Wake business school graduates, one BEM (2021) and the other Finance (2024). The weeding out really begins before application. There are four prerequisite courses required, the most difficult being Accounting 111. DS told me about a third of students drop out of the accounting class. It is my understanding that admission is GPA based, with the prerequisite courses being weighted separately. I do not think that the process was holistic when my kids were admitted, but I could be wrong. The percentage of applicants admitted varies from year to year due to the fixed number of slots available in the business school. Wake is serious about personalized education, so class sizes are small and that limits the number of students in the business school.
DD got in with lower grades than DS. She had an English major as well and took some fairly difficult courses early on. DS was shooting for IB and was advised that he needed a 3.8 GPA to be considered, so he was more strategic in course selection than his sister.
The Wake representative is right saying that students who make good grades get in. The stated minimum grade on the prerequisites is “C or better”, but I would think that all admitted students do much better than that. I think there is also a provisional admission process for students who aren’t admitted.
The business students also form their cohorts early on, joining business clubs and the business fraternity in their freshman year. DS was recruiting for his IB job in the fall of his sophomore year for example. He had plenty of help from the business school, his social fraternity brothers and alumni, and the business fraternity. Both my children had a great experience at Wake. DD worked for three years and is now in a top MBA program and DS is an IB analyst in NYC.
I would say that any Wake student can get into the B-school if they buckle down and work hard. Feel free to PM me if you want.
I hadn’t heard about the new business minor. That’s great news.
They were announcing it for the first time , I think, at first year orientation meetings in August. Details of the specific requirements were being worked out.
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Thank you
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I just saw a message on the Wake website that explains more about their planned growth – they are actually planning to have 6,200 students in 2029-30: https://admissions.wfu.edu/2025/07/early-decision-faqs-080125/.
Also, in that message, the president said the class of 2029 has 14% Pell-eligible students, a “notable increase” from recent years. Only info I could find about Pell grants in past years was in the 2024-25 CDS for classes of 2021 and 2022 (related to graduation rates), and those years looked to have under 10% Pell-eligible students, so 14% would be a big jump.
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Will September group find out on 10/24 or 10/31? Praying it is 10/24 for many reasons but mainly so that my child can apply ED somewhere else. Also wondering if Wake only takes certain number from each school. 4 kids from my child’s school got in in the Aug round. My child has better gpa and test scores than those kids so we are slightly panicked we made a mistake not applying in August.
A clear reaction to the fall in the USNWR rankings the past 2 years. They recently changed the rankings criteria to put more emphasis on Pell grant recipients and social mobility. This has significantly helped large public universities in the rankings and has equally hurt smaller private universities like Wake. Schools may claim that they do not care about the rankings and where they fall in those rankings, but this is another example of a school and reacting and catering to the arbitrary rankings and the biased agenda of USNWR.
Based on past history, they should here on 10/31.
It should be 10/24 but impossible to tell with 100% certainty.
Every school is mindful of how many kids they take from one high school given they want to create a diverse, well-rounded class. Of course, if your kid is as or in this case more qualified it would seem to make sense that he would also get accepted, although GPA and test scores are surely not the only variables being considered (those other kids may have great extra-curricular achievements, be potential D1 athletes, have meaningful connections to WF,…). In the end, you just never know when it comes to college admissions - many seemingly unqualified kids getting into top schools and many seemingly qualified kids being turned away from mid-tier schools.