May 1st is only a week away, but I’m still struggling to find my right fit. I have narrowed down my choices to University of Washington, Lehigh and Rochester. I am planning on major in business and economics, maybe a minor in science. I need opinions on the decisions! Thanks!
They are all great schools and academic equivalents. I’m least familiar with University of Washington as we only looked at Lehigh and Rochester - only visited the latter as S is wait listed at Lehigh. Lehigh is known to have a work hard party hard atmosphere and great alumni network. At Rochester the collaborative atmosphere among the students really came through - it is also a research-focused university.
Where are you from and how important is transportation to and from the university to you?
Have you visited?
Like the above poster, I’m least familiar with Udub. Between the private universities, I’d give Rochester a shake. It’s a fine university. If you would like something definable to go by, choose U of R for its more even gender balance and less influential fraternity life. Good luck. These decisions are not easy.
Lehigh and Rochester are good schools. Third person here to not be very familiar with UW! Is cost a factor? Have you toured any of them?
I’m from China actually
cost is not a factor @TheDidactic, and I have visited lehigh and UW, never been to rochester
Glad to be the most familiar with UW here 
Although I’m unfamiliar with Rochester and Lehigh. I know UW has a pretty serious business school that definitely gets high marks. It’s competitive, but not cut-throat. In fact the environment is pretty chill, mellow even. You can’t go wrong with any it seems, but I’d cast my vote for UW.
UW. The B School is on the rise and it’s on the Pacific Rim.
And the sciences are powerful at the UW.
@gdlt234 do you know why the acceptance rate for UW is so high as 55% but everyone is saying it’s so competitive to get in?
@EvanJC Well people are probably referring to the other schools within UW. The Foster business school for example only accepts about 20-25% or so of applicants. So it’s definitely competitive there.
@EvanJC In addition to what gdlt234 said, the acceptance rate for Washington residents is around 65%; historically, they constitute around 1/3 of the applicants and fill around 2/3 of the seats in the entering class. The overall acceptance rate will probably be lower this year due to the 16% increase in applications (19% increase from nonresidents). I read that last year, about 92% of students who enrolled were in the top 10% of their class, with an average unweighted GPA of 3.76 and a 25/75 ACT range of 26/31. It will be interesting to see the numbers for this year’s class.