Rising Sun, Md., native David Hale knew that he wanted to attend a research-oriented university long before choosing Wake Forest. When it came to his final three options for undergraduate study, it was the confidence of the faculty in incoming students that sold Wake to him.
“Carnegie Melon had a really snooty answer when I asked about research options,” says Hale. “They made a huge deal about needing to take the right kinds of introductory courses and preferences for graduate students. Brown had a similar answer.”
Susan Fahrbach, with whom Hale took a comparative physiology course during his freshman year, was extremely receptive to Hale’s inquiry into conducting grant-funded research with her the following summer.