<p>Hi ,
We know that Lehigh likes students who show interest. I ran across an article on how colleges work the admisions race discussing the topic.They said...</p>
<p>"The most common and in some ways, common sense method used by colleges to improve yield: simply to admit only those students who they perceive as likely to enroll.</p>
<p>"There are so many silent electronic footprints they're leaving nowadays," said Sundar Kumarasamy, vice president for enrollment management and marketing at the University of Dayton.</p>
<p>Kumarasamy said that his institution tracks many of these subtle signals of interest from applicants: They can tell whether individual applicants clicked to open email communications, logged into the system to check the status of an application, and not only whether they called the school, but how long that phone call lasted. If the school gets the sense that an applicant isn't interested, that's factored in. Kumarasamy calls it "recruiting for fit."</p>
<p>The interest or lack thereof can ultimately mean that the school rejects some candidates who on paper are more than qualified but failed to demonstrate interest."</p>
<p>link for whole article</p>
<p>The</a> Admission Arms Race: Six Ways Colleges Game Their Numbers - ProPublica</p>