I still remember Accepted Students’ Day in April 2017 at Wake Forest: the North Carolinian weather was beautiful, the students were approachable, and university officials touted achievements such as the university’s ranking in the top ten schools in the country for undergraduate teaching quality, and having an average class size of just 21 students. None of this experience was misleading, but slowly I would realize in my first year there that the qualities which enticed me to enroll at Wake Forest...

I still remember Accepted Students’ Day in April 2017 at Wake Forest: the North Carolinian weather was beautiful, the students were approachable, and university officials touted achievements such as the university’s ranking in the top ten schools in the country for undergraduate teaching quality, and having an average class size of just 21 students. None of this experience was misleading, but slowly I would realize in my first year there that the qualities which enticed me to enroll at Wake Forest...