Wake Forest Winston-Salem vs. Wake Forest Charlotte

[sharpincapacity10]

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Hi everyone, I'm really happy to be accepted into Wake Forest and I'm trying to decide between campuses. Since the Charlotte campus is so new, they don't have any match data that would help my decision. I'm not sure what I want to do, but I want to keep my options open for competitive specialties. With Charlotte being such a new campus, I'm worried that they won't have the research infrastructure in place. Any advice on going to a newer campus vs an older one?

 

[chilly_md]

Sticking to the main campus especially when Charlotte hasn't graduated a class yet is probably a good idea.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Ask questions about plans. It's not like WS and Charlotte are thousands of miles away.

The Charlotte campus is located in a designed scitech hub.

Wake Forest expands to Charlotte’s Innovation District, marking historic milestone in education | Wake Forest News

Wake Forest University is dramatically increasing its impact in North Carolina by developing a new academic campus in The Pearl, Charlotte’s innovation district. The Pearl officially opened its doors this week.

news.wfu.edu

 

[mmmkkaayyy]

I’m not sure if you toured both campuses but it helped me make my decision so just thought I would share.

At both WS and CLT it seems like they have plenty of opportunities for research. Several students I’ve spoken to have shared that they have received more opportunities than they have time for. They mentioned that even if something isn’t at the CLT campus, they’re establishing it and that being able to play a part in founding initiatives has been a unique experience since they have frameworks from the WS campus to use which has helped eliminate a lot of the stress associated with building something from scratch. They said some students are commuting to WS for things like the wildness medicine certificate since it’s not really suited for the CLT area.

Simply considering the number of home residency programs for each campus, WS wins out. But I was told that students from both campuses will have the flexibility to rotate at both campuses. Paired with the ~1 hour commute between campuses, it seemed to me that most people decided based on the differences in location (city vs suburban), curriculum (required faculty led small group vs optional traditional lectures) and anatomy (virtual/plastinated throughout preclinical vs traditional cadaver block).