{"admissions":{"act_25":32,"act_75":34,"admit_rate":21.6,"applicants":17479,"sat_25":1390,"sat_75":1510,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":{"act_pct":22,"definition":"share of enrolled first-years who submitted a score (CDS C9)","sat_pct":26,"year":2023},"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":null,"at_a_glance":["Wake Forest University is a private nonprofit four-year college in NC. It admitted 22% of applicants (17,479 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1390\u20131510, ACT 32\u201334. 26% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 22% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.","Cost: about $28,719 a year on average with aid, $87,499 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $78,158 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $666,704 ahead with aid, $431,584 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods ($146,608); Finance and Financial Management Services ($145,996); Business/Commerce, General ($118,167).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 2% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 40% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Wake Forest University: 141, 800 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Oak Knoll School Of The Holy Child (7.0 per class year, 7 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); The Westminster Schools (6.2 per class year, 31 over 5 class years, Classes 2021-2025); Westminster (6.2 per class year, 31 over 5 class years, Classes 2021-2025). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/wake-forest-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Wake Forest University: 15, 63 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often St Andrews School Of Boca Raton Inc (7.0 per class year, 7 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Middlesex School (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, Class of 2026, counted column \"accepted\"); Oratory Preparatory School (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, Class of 2025). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/wake-forest-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/wake-forest-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":6525},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":6331},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":7647},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":12771}],"full_price":87499,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":28719,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/student/app/wfu","tuition_in_state":67642,"tuition_out_of_state":67642},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":78158,"median_6yr_after_entry":67722},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":63,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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