Wake Forest . . . North Carolina’s finest includes the Screamin’ Demons!
Wake Forest University, one of America’s outstanding schools, can confuse applicants who aren’t familiar with North Carolina right from the ‘get go’. Why? Because Wake Forest University is located in Winston-Salem, NC which is more than 100 miles from Wake Forest, NC! When it was founded in 1834 the university was indeed located in Wake Forest but in 1956 the main campus moved to the more cosmopolitan Winston-Salem location.
Fewer than 100 colleges can claim to have an endowment in excess of $1 Billion and Wake Forest is proud to be one of them. This financial strength also allows Wake Forest to be one of the few remaining colleges which maintains an official “need blind” policy within its admissions process. Students applying to Wake Forest are considered solely on the basis of their application and accomplishments without regard to the financial resources of their family.
Wake Forest is well known for its beautiful campus. That’s not surprising when you consider the origins of the current home of this academic powerhouse. The present Wake Forest campus was once the estate of the RJ Reynolds family. The estate was known as “Reynolda”, a name that is preserved with the school’s Reynolda Hall.
Students at Wake Forest often spend a semester abroad during their college career. With roughly half of all students spending at least one semester in another country, Wake Forest stands as one of the colleges boasting an unusually high rate of study abroad participation.
Although well known for its academics, Wake Forest features a rich athletic history. Wake Forest teams have won several national championships. Known as the “Demon Deacons”, Wake Forest lore suggests that a sports writer once described the school team as having “fought like demons”. The nickname stuck and it’s a good thing . . . prior to that time the teams were best known as the “fighting Baptists” . . . hardly the sort of name which will bring a crowd to its feet during a big game! Thanks to an innovative program known as the “Screamin’ Demons”, student support and attendance at Wake Forest athletic events is the envy of many colleges.
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