College choice will have a familiar feel for Brookwood's top grad
THOMASVILLE — Caroline Wolff already has a sense of familiarity with her college destination.
The Brookwood School senior and class of 2019 valedictorian will be going to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her father is a Wake Forest alumnus, and her brother is a student there, too.
“It’s a great school,” Wolff said. “It’s a beautiful campus. It just felt like it was the place where I was supposed to be.”
Wolff said she has wanted to pursue pre-veterinary medicine “ever since I was little,” but hasn’t decided on an intended major.
“I’m keeping my options open,” she said.
Her favorite course at Brookwood was AdvancedPlacement Biology. “I felt like I learned a lot,” Wolff said. “I learned a lot of stuff I didn’t know.”
Like many other top students, Wolff enjoyed nearly all of her classes and all were challenging.
“AP Literature might have been the most difficult class,” she said. 'I had never taken an AP writing course before. It was a process learning how to do it and be successful.”
Wolff ’s final two years at Brookwood were chock full of AP classes. She took AP Biology and AP U.S.
History as a junior, saving AP European History, AP Literature and AP Calculus for her senior year.
But what Wolff loved most about her time at Brookwood School, going back to when she was barely bigger than the books she carried as a senior, was being part of the community.
“It’s a pretty small school,” she said. “You spend eight hours a day, five days a week, with the same people, and you get to know each other. And it’s not just the students, it’s the parents, and you get to know your teachers well.
It’s a great environment.”
Before she heads to Wake Forest in August, Wolff will be going to Germany to reconnect with an exchange student who was here two years ago and who Wolff described as her other sister. She’ll be headed to just outside of Munich.
“It’s really cool and there’s a lot of history,” shesaid. And then it will be time to go off to college instead of to Brookwood. “I am super excited to go to college and have new experiences,” Wolff said, “but at the same time, I’ve known these people for most of my life. It’s going to be kind of surreal to not be with them next year.”
Brookwood School
Located in Thomasville, GA, Brookwood School is a private school for grades JK-12. Students benefit from a challenging academic program, fine and performing arts, competitive athletics, and a wide selection of extracurricular activities.