<p>are there any actions taken to increase diversity. I rlly like lehigh alot. Everythin is great. Im just worried bout the diversity. if lehigh could increase its asian population from 8% to around 15%-20%...that just be perfect.</p>
<p>Why would you expect Lehigh to seek to increase the Asian-American percentage of the student body to 20%? That is WAY more than the percentage of Asian-Americans in the US population-at-large. I know this might come as a surprise to Californians, but in the mid-Atlantic – outside of Boston, NYC and Washington – Asian-Americans rarely comprise more than 4% of the population.</p>
<p>Try Hopkins…</p>
<p>Try Emory…</p>
<p>Try Stanford.</p>
<p>Try Princeton.</p>
<p>“Try Oxford”</p>
<p>Try University of Tokyo</p>
<p>try North Carolina state A&T</p>
<p>wow all you guys are a bunch of dbags
“try emory…try tokyo” etc
try giving him some real advice</p>
<p>quack09, I also want lehigh to increase its asian enrollment, I am considering it but I dont want to go to an all-white school
hudsonvalley - it is possible to get a Mid-Atlantic school a high asian enrollment…NYU, emory, and a lot of other colleges have 20%+ asians
So it is reasonable to expect Lehigh (mid-atlantic school) to increase its asian enrollment</p>
<p>username: wasn’t trying to be a “dbag”…It is a known fact that Emory (and I guess others) are aggressively trying to increase their Asian population (I think last year’s freshman class is close to 25%)…Lehigh has chosen not to aggressively accept Asians just because they are Asians… sorry if I offended you…</p>
<p>Username101 - I wasn’t being a “dbag” as you so affectionately stated…
If the OP wants a school with a high percentage of Asians, it won’t be at Lehigh - at least not by the time he/she would enroll. That is why I said “try Stanford”.</p>
<p>“Of Stanford’s 6,550 undergraduates, 1,567 (24%) are Asian/Pacific Islanders compared with 1,180 of Harvard’s 6,630 (18%)”.</p>
<p>A “dbag” for making a suggestion? Wow. The other poster was out of line thinking the school should cater to his/her whims about the population. Lehigh is not looking to increase their enrollment with that demographic. If the demographic is not making the poster happy then the school is not a good fit. Hopkins has a higher Asian population which is why I mentioned it. </p>
<p>Hopkins-26% Asian/Pacific Islander</p>
<p>Sorry guys. I thought you were mocking that person, my bad.</p>
<p>“So it is reasonable to expect Lehigh (mid-atlantic school) to increase its asian enrollment.”</p>
<p>username – I think you meant to say “It is not unreasonable to think that Lehigh would have a higher asian enrollment.”</p>
<p>Certainly, highly regarded urban universities and tech schools often have a double-digit percentage of Asian-American kids in their student body. But this is because these schools are attractive to top-performing Asian-American students. I know this is not because these schools make a point of recruiting as many asian students as they can. It seems that Bethlehem, Pa lacks the appeal of Boston, New York and Atlanta (I wonder why?) for many of these kids. I really don’t see any reason why Lehigh should devote more of its resources to recruit an already overrepresented ethnic group. Better to use those resources to try to attract more promising African-American students, who are indeed underrepresented.</p>
<p>they def. werent being dbags, i agree try stanford if you want asians. Lehigh won’t happen, if that is ur biggest concern with one of ur fav schools then thats just stupid</p>
<p>hundsonvalley:
“Reasonable” and “not unreasonable” have the same meaning. I did mean to say reasonable.</p>
<p>hundsonvalley:
“Reasonable” and “not unreasonable” have the same meaning. And I did mean to say reasonable.</p>
<p>username – I think you missed the point. Since Lehigh is a techy school, and many techy schools (CMU, MIT, etc.) have a higher than normal Asian-American population, one might expect Lehigh to also have an out-of-proportion Asian-American population. But it doesn’t. Does this mean Lehigh should be trying harder to increase enrollment by an already overrepresented demographic? I don’t believe that would be appropriate. You apparently do?</p>
<p>The recruitment of a diverse student body would benefit Lehigh and its students. If the budget for student recruitment is so limited that only one group would be targeted, then the benefit to the university would not be achieved. Bickering over where the effort should be focussed misses the bigger picture, which is that Lehigh is unique in its lack of diversity for an institution of its rank regarding students of color, income level, and national origin.</p>
<p>The relative smallness of Lehigh’s student of color proportion might be a result of an ineffective recruitment effort or to a perception that the school is unattractive because of its ingrained culture.</p>