How religious is wake forest?

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about as religious as any other school located in the middle of nowhere and where 3/4 of the school gets ****faced everyday weekend. aside from the weekend chapels that most dont even go to, it isnt even that serious. i didnt know it was baptist affiliated until after like 3-4 months LOL.
 
is it okay to mention that I chose the school partly because of its religion?
 
god forbid they admit baptists to their baptist affiliated school 😱
 
I am actually interested in their Spirituality and Medicine (and I'm not a Bap, actually a presb)
 
So what does being "Baptist affiliated" entail? Do they incorporate religion and spirituality into their curriculum, preferentially take Baptist students, anything like that? Or is it just a historical affiliation that has no influence on their current operations? I am interviewing there in late September, and I had never heard anything about a Baptist affiliation.
 
Bartelby said:
So what does being "Baptist affiliated" entail? Do they incorporate religion and spirituality into their curriculum, preferentially take Baptist students, anything like that? Or is it just a historical affiliation that has no influence on their current operations? I am interviewing there in late September, and I had never heard anything about a Baptist affiliation.
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they seem more watered-down than my institution, but I can describe to you what it's like here at Baylor.

basically the faculty are usually religious, and in a lot of classes professors will mention god very briefly in 1 lecture, if at all. for example, one professor made it a point to mention god's plan when he was telling us about the molecular nature of evolution.. but he's a pretty hardcore christian. but the campus itself is widely influenced by religion.. alcohol is not allowed on campus, and it wasn't until just a few years ago that dancing was allowed on campus.

it didn't affect my education at all, other than that I was required to take chapel and religion courses as an undergraduate. as a graduate student, we aren't required to do anything related to religion. the medical curriculum is not likely to involve any kind of spirituality courses, but the faculty may be comprised of a lot of christians.

of course this is just my school, I don't know how Wake Forest does it.
 
armybound said:
they seem more watered-down than my institution, but I can describe to you what it's like here at Baylor.

basically the faculty are usually religious, and in a lot of classes professors will mention god very briefly in 1 lecture, if at all. for example, one professor made it a point to mention god's plan when he was telling us about the molecular nature of evolution.. but he's a pretty hardcore christian. but the campus itself is widely influenced by religion.. alcohol is not allowed on campus, and it wasn't until just a few years ago that dancing was allowed on campus.

it didn't affect my education at all, other than that I was required to take chapel and religion courses as an undergraduate. as a graduate student, we aren't required to do anything related to religion. the medical curriculum is not likely to involve any kind of spirituality courses, but the faculty may be comprised of a lot of christians.

of course this is just my school, I don't know how Wake Forest does it.
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Baylor U has no medical school. BCM has 0 affiliation with Baylor U or with the Baptists that rule it (as of the 1970s). Common misconception.
 
some_user86 said:
Baylor U has no medical school. BCM has 0 affiliation with Baylor U or with the Baptists that rule it (as of the 1970s). Common misconception.
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As a Baylor alum and current Baylor graduate student, I'm aware of this.

I was giving him the perspective of an undergraduate institution affiliated with the Baptist Convention.
 
armybound said:
As a Baylor alum and current Baylor graduate student, I'm aware of this.

I was giving him the perspective of an undergraduate institution affiliated with the Baptist Convention.
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Ok, because it was just worded in a way that I thought differently.

You would be surprised by how many people apply to Baylor U thinking that it is associated with BCM, erroneously believing that it will give them a leg up on admissions to BCM (that doesn't work even if the BCM was part of Baylor U, but I digress).
 
I'd say about 15 Shrouds of Turin out of a possible 26.
 
Bartelby said:
So what does being "Baptist affiliated" entail? Do they incorporate religion and spirituality into their curriculum, preferentially take Baptist students, anything like that? Or is it just a historical affiliation that has no influence on their current operations? I am interviewing there in late September, and I had never heard anything about a Baptist affiliation.
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The affiliation is this - the original hospital was founded by Baptists. Taken from WFUBMC's website: "Wake Forest University School of Medicine (formerly Bowman Gray School of Medicine) was founded in 1902 as a two-year medical school on the campus of Wake Forest College. North Carolina Baptist Hospital opened in 1923 as an 88-bed hospital in Winston-Salem. The medical school expanded to four years and moved to Winston-Salem in 1941. Brenner Children's Hospital and Health Services was established in 1986."

In essence, the name remains to give credit for founding the hospital. That said, there is now a divinity summer program you can enroll in during your MS1 summer - you will be granted a certificate for completing it. This is the first step in what many hope will result in a joint medicine/divinity program.
 
The Baptist Church actually broke its affiliation with Wake Forest Medical School because they wanted to keep a pub on campus. The Medical center attached is still baptist but the school itself is not.
 
You will have a clinical rotation where all you do is pray for critically ill and injured patients, and another one where you learn to perform exorcisms. Also, there is no dancing allowed.
 
MarySue99 said:
The Baptist Church actually broke its affiliation with Wake Forest Medical School because they wanted to keep a pub on campus. The Medical center attached is still baptist but the school itself is not.
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I assume the pub is gone?
 
Bartelby said:
Wow, that's pretty religious. Thanks for the heads up!
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If you think that's kooky, don't bother applying to Loma Linda. They make you sacrifice a goat ever time there is a lunar eclipse and smear it's blood over the hospital's Emergency Dept.
 
Well that's just common sense, plain and simple. I don't care what your religion is.
 
LabMonster said:
I assume the pub is gone?
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No, it's still there- that's why they are no longer affiliated with the baptist church- the church did not like the pub on campus and the medical school wanted to keep it. (They wanted to keep their students from driving elsewhere to drink)
 
MarySue99 said:
No, it's still there- that's why they are no longer affiliated with the baptist church- the church did not like the pub on campus and the medical school wanted to keep it. (They wanted to keep their students from driving elsewhere to drink)
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Pub at the undergrad campus?
 
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