<p>@IndutableDan - My son was an engineering student I liked reading the Lehigh Course Catalog book. Haha And I have been able to find answers to many questions just by doing internet searches. </p>
<p>Here is what I found from the Lehigh website today - hope this helps.</p>
<p>Curriculum and Course Selection Information</p>
<p>As noted in the enclosed letter, the typical first-year Arts-Engineering program is identical to the program for students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science except for the College Seminar. The typical Arts-Engineering pattern:
Fall Semester (credits) Spring Semester (credits)
Engl 1
Composition/Literature I (3) Engl 2 Composition/Literature II (3)
Math 21 Calculus I (4) Math 22 Calculus II (4)
Phy 11 Intro. Physics I (4) Chm 30 Intro. to Chemical Principles (4)
Phy 12 Intro. Physics Lab I (1) Engr 10 Applied Engineering Computer Models (2)
College Seminar of FYC (3 to 4) Elective (3 to 4)</p>
<p>Also, feel free to call the school with any questions. I called several times before my son started and they were all very nice and very helpful. You can just say you are a perspective student or a recently accepted student. They are not going to ask your name or keep any record of your question. Even before my son went there I felt like I had friends in different areas of the school. I even stopped in and said hi to a couple of them when I moved my son in freshman year. We live very far away and I was only able to come out to move him in, Parent’s Weekend and to move him out. Just going three times a year I developed some nice friendships with the staff. I found it to be a very warm. caring, friendly place.</p>
<p>@kikkydee is it possible for a your son/daughter to give me a tour of Lehigh? When I tried to sign up for interviews, they where full, and my parents wouldn’t take me to the tour because it was the day before my final SATs (december 5th). </p>
<p>I don’t think an interview is that important. Have you ever been on campus? For demonstrated interest you need to visit. Just sign in at the admission’s desk. I guess you really can give yourself a “tour”. You could even write about your experience researching Lehigh on your own and finding your own way. It is a pretty compact campus. You can ride the campus bus. Go have a meal in one of the cafeterias. Go to the library. Go to the gym. Walk up and down the hill to check out the dorms and see how short the walk will be to your morning classes! The lower part of campus has most of the academic buildings. Go the the bookstore and get a drink at the Starbucks. The 3 blocks below campus is the area the students mainly go to to restaurants, bars, shops. I would walk around there. The Goosey Gander is a really popular sandwich place. </p>
<p>My all time favorite tour of the Lehigh campus is the “Lehigh 2010 lipdub” Search for it on Youtube. There is a 2011 lipdub but I didn’t think it was nearly as good.</p>
<p>I thought you were applying early decision? If you are regular decision I think you can send your admissions officer an email and let them know when you will be coming to see the campus. I looked back and I see you think Lehigh is a reach. So unless you live really far away you need to visit. We just went on a big group tour.</p>
<p>If you stay overnight I really recommend the Comfort Suites. It isn’t the fanciest place but in just a block from the bookstore so you feel like you are a part of campus.</p>
<p>If you take a bus to Lehigh the bus station is 2 blocks from campus and they run all they time!</p>
<p>@kikkydee I only live 50 mins away. I’ll be visiting Lafayette in a few days, so I’ll stop by at Lehigh and tour the place after come back from Lafayette. I’ll be applying ED2, and I think of Lehigh as a reach because of my lack of leadership positions (already stated?), which is only one position that’s more teaching than leading, and because my SAT scores are just average (no SAT 2; ACT might also be average).</p>
<p>I think I have said to you before I think you are putting way to much importance on the leadership experience. Since Lehigh is a smaller school the admissions officers take the time to read each application. I always felt they saw the potential in my son and after he was accepting he started seeing himself differently. They are trained to see jewels in the rough!!! </p>
<p>Spend time on your essays and really let them know the real you. Lehigh is use to essays from engineering students who maybe aren’t the best writers. They look beyond that. I personally think they look for students that are driven and motivated to study hard. </p>
<p>So what day will you go for the tour? Will the admissions office be open? Make a list of what you think you want to see at Lehigh! I love the social library - I think it is called Linderman. It is beautiful. It has a huge Tiffany’s stained glass mounted in the ceiling. I also really liked the big lawn and walking on walking path just outside the admissions office. The buildings are so beautiful. On our first visit we thought it looked like a resort. Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m sure this has been asked dozens of times already, so I’m sorry if I repeat what other people have said, but what are several ways I can show interest that don’t involve visiting? I’m from WA, so I don’t have a way to get there. I would have loved to, but it’s just not possible for me. I’ve heard about emailing adcoms, but what exactly would I say to show genuine interest? Lehigh is definitely one of my top choices right now, so I would really appreciate it if I could get some insight!</p>
<p>The admissions office will understand why you weren’t able to visit. </p>
<p>Could you ask your admissions officer for a phone interview? Isn’t there a question in your admission application about why you are interested in Lehigh. It was when my son applied. My son wrote an essay with a very detailed description of his whole process of looking at schools and why he came to believe Lehigh was the school for him</p>
<p>Living so far away gives you a HUGE advantage. Geographic diversity is one of Lehigh’s admission’s goals. </p>
<p>It is so funny - you guys do not realize how NICE the admission officers are. They love kids. They will bend over backwards to help you! And even after you get admitted to Lehigh your admission officers still like to follow you and enjoy all your successes. If you even need help with anything while you are at Lehigh they would be there to try and help you. Lehigh is just that kind of school!</p>
<p>There is a question that asks why I am interested, and I wrote about an experience I had that really made Lehigh stand out when I was comparing academic programs at different schools in particular. I just didn’t know if that would be considered showing interest since everybody has to write that essay. </p>
<p>I had no idea living far away would that big of an advantage though! Haha it makes me feel a bit better about it. Thanks for helping me!</p>
<p>The majority of the students at Lehigh are from PA, NY and NJ. It will be great fun to go home with your friends! Lehigh has “Pacing Breaks”. A Monday and Tuesday without classes each semester. You can use it to study and catch up, relax or take a trip. My son went home to his freshman room’s house almost every break, every year. They became sort of a second family to him. </p>
Thanks! Do you know where I would be placed? If I am not admitted to CSB i would want to major in CS. But would it be at the arts and science school? The engineering? Thanks again!
I’m curious where you’ve heard that, if a generalized comment or specific instances. There are instances of discrimination everywhere, whether the workforce or even someone being served in a fast food establishment, so it is difficult to find any place that has had zero reports of someone being discriminated against. Truthfully, there are even isolated cases of people claiming discrimination falsely that make the news from time to time in all sorts of places and institutions that turn out to not be as claimed.
From everything I’ve heard and seen, it is a welcoming community. No place is perfect, but I certainly wish that I had gone to college there. To answer your question succinctly, no, I know that Lehigh makes a real concerted effort to bring in a diverse community of students based upon all sorts of criteria, whether geographically or socioeconomically or racially or anything else because they invited my child to diversity weekend.
College is a huge step, but it can also be an invigorating and magical time. It will be easy to blame rude behavior or being excluded from something as being discriminated against, when in actuality, there are people in the world that just aren’t nice to anyone. Try to keep an open mind wherever you go, and go out and have fun and meet people. If someone gives you the cold shoulder, keep in mind that it might not be because of skin color or clothes that you’re wearing or even the car that you drive, it could be that it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with that other person just being thoughtless and rude. From everything I’ve heard, it really is a fun place and the majority of people are open to others just as they are.
My daughter is a HS SR and interested in majoring in Physics/Astrophysics. We visited Lehigh in April and she came away very impressed with the University.
Speaking candidly, Lehigh’s Physics/Astrophysics program is not ranked nearly as high as many of her other high interest schools. (Cornell, Chicago, Maryland, etc). However, the size of the school, atmosphere, campus etc. very much appealed to her. It is certainly an outstanding school overall. In addition because of the smaller size of the Physics program at Lehigh she may get more attention than if she is at one of the larger schools that have many more students in the Physics programs.
I wanted to get your thoughts on on your experience with the Physics/Astrophysics program at Lehigh.
She could also have a better chance to work in a research lab. My son was also in one of the lesser ranked engineering departments. Because of all the research experience my son had he was able to get an amazing summer internship junior summer and had his job offer by September. His starting salary was much higher than the national averages for his major. Lehigh’s has a great reputation among top companies. I do not think they care what whit about those silly rankings.
Well honestly they do care about the rankings, but that is a whole different discussion.
Lehigh has the 95th ranked Physics program in the US. Bu the question is why is that the case. Having visited Lehigh, and spent considerable time with my daughter after the regular tour, going over to the Physics building and viewing their Lab facilities, research projects, infrastructure, talking to current students, etc, it just simply does not compare with the top programs. That doesn’t mean in any way shape or form, Lehigh isn’t a wonderful university. It just has a hard time comparing program wise with these other schools in this particular program.
My question to luian was more about his/her personal experience in the program. That is usually as good insight as you can get.