2015-2016 Wake Forest University Application Thread

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How long did it take for you to get complete email? I submitted a week ago and haven't received anything. Also on the website it says "Applicants may check on the status of their application by logging back into their online account and viewing the "Application Details" panel." Has anyone been able to do this? When I log into the portal, I don't see an application details panel.
 
I have been verified for a couple of weeks now and have received secondaries from everyone except Wake Forest. Do they pre-screen? Is anyone else waiting for a secondary or should I email the office and ask for a secondary?
 
Email the admissions office on Monday. They sent out acknowledgment emails as well as secondaries in July that some of us did not receive. They should be able to tell you if and when they sent you a secondary and then they should resend it to you if you were a recipient. The admissions office is very helpful. The problem is that now we are several weeks later than other applicants because we did not receive the original email. The problem appears to have been on their end. This has happened to several people. If you did not receive an acknowledgment of your AMCAS email from them and your AMCAS was verified in June, you may fall into this category.
 
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They are already sending out interview invitations. Wake Forest wants you to turn in your secondary within three weeks of receiving it. According to the admissions office, the original secondary email which I never received was sent to me more than three weeks ago.
 
B-wildered said:
So what is the consensus about individual LOR. Only two, or you can submit more?
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You can submit more. You just list the two LOR you want Wake to read first and if they want to read more, they will read your other ones. I believe 6 is the limit.
 
So I just submitted (yay!). Is there anywhere to check our status for Wake or are they looking out for our health and trying to deter our obsessive tendencies?
 
Yolanda said:
So I just submitted (yay!). Is there anywhere to check our status for Wake or are they looking out for our health and trying to deter our obsessive tendencies?
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You should have/should receive an e mail Witt a really long link to check your application status. Same username pw etc as the secondary but different link.
 
Glad I checked this thread. Will email tomorrow to see if they had issues emailing me too.
 
Sorry if this has already been answered. I can't find a definite answer in the thread.

I've been verified since 7/23, and haven't even heard if they've even received my primary, let alone the secondary. Is that normal? I called earlier this week (the lady was NOT happy about my call) and she said I wouldn't get a secondary until about 3 weeks. But now some of you are saying you got a email when they received your primary.

Also, since I don't have the secondary I just want to confirm that we only have to answer two of the three required essays (diversity, obstacles, competencies)??

Thanks!
 
judb16 said:
Also, since I don't have the secondary I just want to confirm that we only have to answer two of the three required essays (diversity, obstacles, competencies)??

Thanks!
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That is correct (except that I wrote all three, because I could copy paste them and I was in a hurry... oh well). Also, I received my secondary on the 17th yet my primary was submitted on the 1st. Yours will come
 
judb16 said:
Sorry if this has already been answered. I can't find a definite answer in the thread.

I've been verified since 7/23, and haven't even heard if they've even received my primary, let alone the secondary. Is that normal? I called earlier this week (the lady was NOT happy about my call) and she said I wouldn't get a secondary until about 3 weeks. But now some of you are saying you got a email when they received your primary.

Also, since I don't have the secondary I just want to confirm that we only have to answer two of the three required essays (diversity, obstacles, competencies)??

Thanks!
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Wake Forest has a high intake of applications especially at this point in the cycle. Due to the high intake, their system requires some time to go through all the applications even to verify that they received you AMCAS app. This has happened in recent cycles where it would take about 3 weeks for them to send a verification email and then maybe the secondary a few days later. Those who were emailed had submitted their apps earlier and were most likely AMCAS verified in June. Just be patient and wait.

And yes, 2 of the 3 essays. Most do all. Either way it doesn't matter. There's no special consideration for doing all three.
 
ellocarter said:
Wake Forest has a high intake of applications especially at this point in the cycle. Due to the high intake, their system requires some time to go through all the applications even to verify that they received you AMCAS app. This has happened in recent cycles where it would take about 3 weeks for them to send a verification email and then maybe the secondary a few days later. Those who were emailed had submitted their apps earlier and were most likely AMCAS verified in June. Just be patient and wait.

And yes, 2 of the 3 essays. Most do all. Either way it doesn't matter. There's no special consideration for doing all three.
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Thanks for your response!

and @texasdevil
 
ellocarter said:
Wake Forest has a high intake of applications especially at this point in the cycle. Due to the high intake, their system requires some time to go through all the applications even to verify that they received you AMCAS app. This has happened in recent cycles where it would take about 3 weeks for them to send a verification email and then maybe the secondary a few days later. Those who were emailed had submitted their apps earlier and were most likely AMCAS verified in June. Just be patient and wait.

And yes, 2 of the 3 essays. Most do all. Either way it doesn't matter. There's no special consideration for doing all three.
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Emailed them to confirm this and that is correct. The person said that if I was verified on or before 07/17, then they have the application. If not, it will be downloaded on their next round sometime next week.
 
Just got an email reminding me that my Secondary app was past due... Oops! At least they granted me another due date but I submitted mine today anyway. Let the waiting game begin!
 
ellocarter said:
Wake Forest has a high intake of applications especially at this point in the cycle. Due to the high intake, their system requires some time to go through all the applications even to verify that they received you AMCAS app. This has happened in recent cycles where it would take about 3 weeks for them to send a verification email and then maybe the secondary a few days later. Those who were emailed had submitted their apps earlier and were most likely AMCAS verified in June. Just be patient and wait.

And yes, 2 of the 3 essays. Most do all. Either way it doesn't matter. There's no special consideration for doing all three.
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Two good essays that tell the COA something about you are better than 3 essays that tell us nothing.
 
How do you check the status of your application? I received Wake's secondary on 7/29 and submitted it about a week later. When I log back into the portal, all I see are the answers I wrote down for the essay questions.
 
Fascie said:
How do you check the status of your application? I received Wake's secondary on 7/29 and submitted it about a week later. When I log back into the portal, all I see are the answers I wrote down for the essay questions.
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Click on the link they sent when they sent the email reading that they received your primary application.
 
Hello there,

I am trying to check my status and I could not log in. Username and password are the same as the ones they sent you in secondary invitation? I used that and it said invalid.
 
frenchyn said:
Hello there,

I am trying to check my status and I could not log in. Username and password are the same as the ones they sent you in secondary invitation? I used that and it said invalid.
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Did you copy and paste? If I remember correctly that causes errors on the login.
 
frenchyn said:
Hello there,

I am trying to check my status and I could not log in. Username and password are the same as the ones they sent you in secondary invitation? I used that and it said invalid.
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Use the link from the email they sent you before they sent the secondary.
 
It has been almost two weeks since I submitted my secondary and I have not been contacted about my application being complete, or contacted at all. My letters and everything else have been in for a while. I just wanted to verify that this is normal right?
 
rachiie01 said:
@Pathdocmd if we are non-traditional students, is it okay to submit one science letter and one letter from a PI/employer as the non-science?
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When I called the admissions office, they said a non-science letter is not actually a requirement. Just at least one of the two needs to be science.
 
whipstitchmd said:
Got an interview invite!! LOOOVE Wake Forest and can't wait! Congrats everyone and keep working hard! We're so close now!
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Did you get the II this early in the morning? If so, I'm impressed.
 
judb16 said:
Did you get the II this early in the morning? If so, I'm impressed.
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No no! I got it a little before noon yesterday, and IMMEDIATELY called to schedule the interview date (this is just my first chance to get on SDN since) ... They probably think I'm crazy and live on my email... Which I feel like is a pretty spot-on assumption these days!
 
Btw guys, Wake Forest Admissions said that they have not even downloaded apps that were verified after 7/17 so that's why we haven't gotten a secondary...
Also, what is this deadline thing I'm hearing about? Do they really give you 3 wks and is it a hard deadline?
 
sunshine02 said:
Btw guys, Wake Forest Admissions said that they have not even downloaded apps that were verified after 7/17 so that's why we haven't gotten a secondary...
Also, what is this deadline thing I'm hearing about? Do they really give you 3 wks and is it a hard deadline?
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Someone in here missed it and they gave them more time. There is also is no actual date they give you just "three weeks" so I wouldn't call it hard but if they give a suggestion might as well follow it. The questions weren't too tough.
 
Yolanda said:
Someone in here missed it and they gave them more time. There is also is no actual date they give you just "three weeks" so I wouldn't call it hard but if they give a suggestion might as well follow it. The questions weren't too tough.
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They do explicitly specify three weeks in the secondary invite email.

They just granted that particular person an exception.
 
I think the person who got the exemption for the three week rule never received the email. So I guess if you were super swamped you could just never open the email and then call and say you didn't get it....or you can complete it within three weeks. You should be able to use essays from other secondaries for one or two of Wakes essays.
 
Primary application received: 8/14
Primary application verified: 7/29

Here's hoping for a secondary!!!! Wake Forest, I love you 😍
 
They finally received my AMCAS!
How long did it take for others to receive the secondary?
 
I wanna make sure others saw a previous post re: missing secondary. I was verified 6/26 and never got a secondary til I called and asked for it 8/7. The kind lady explined it was sent by email 7/17. So, my timeline should've been 3 weeks. If it's been more than 5, maybe call and see if you, too, slipped through the cracks!
 
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