If you’re on the way to the Reynolda campus this weekend, you’re in good company! Here’s a quick look at Homecoming 2025 by the numbers…
Total registered alumni: 2,380
1 of every 5 – members of the undergraduate Class of 2020 registered
(Nearly) 1 of every 4 – members of the Class of 1975 registered
I will walk 1,000 miles…
Estimated miles (roundtrip) to be traveled by alumni: 1,559,376
16.8% – 1 of every 6 – will travel ≥ 500 miles each way.
5.67% – 1 of every 18 – will travel ≥ 1,000 each way.
135 miles: Median one-way distance
All over the map…
U.S. states represented: 44
(No one we know of is coming from Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and New Mexico — please reach out if you can add one of these states to the count!)
Other countries: England, Ireland, China, India, New Zealand
51.8% of alumni are coming from another state.
But which one?
Cities represented: 667 (Did you get that, teenaged children of alumni?)
Lexington x 5 (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and
Massachusetts)
Wilmington x 3 (North Carolina, Delaware and Massachusetts)
2 x…
Wellington (New Zealand and Florida)
Charlotte (North Carolina and Vermont)
Denver (Colorado and North Carolina)
Kensington (Maryland and California)
New London (North Carolina and New Hampshire)
Phoenix (Maryland and Arizona)
Richmond (Virginia and California)
Fun pairs
Big Canoe (Georgia) and Little Rock (Arkansas)
Takoma Park (Maryland) and Tacoma (Washington)
Bald Head Island (North Carolina) and Glen Head (New York)
Katy (Texas) and Okatie (South Carolina)
So many parties…
46: Events within the big event
12: Events going on simultaneously from 7:30 p.m.-midnight Saturday
25: Venues
One special shout-out:
No. of Wake Forest Magazine editors chairing a reunion committee: 1 (Thanks, Katherine Laws Waters (’20)!
— Compiled by Communications Research Analyst Rob Daniels
