Lehigh Merit Scholarships Award $ > ED or RD?

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S is interested in Lehigh for Finance - interested enough to apply ED. He will not get FA - I just never get to retire and D will need to go ROTC to pay for college.

S has high scores, grades, and leadership which could equal merit. A very good EA school he applied to a few weeks ago offered him half ride yesterday - but that school is middle of his list.

What is the understood modus operandi for Lehigh relative to merit?

  1. Lehigh wants to entice applicants looking at peer and higher schools - if you signed up for ED they know they have you so why give merit $ to ED applicants?
  2. Lehigh utilizes the same criteria for all applicants relative to merit - its better to get in line early (apply ED) before the merit buckets run dryt?

I’ll be interested to know if recent years to ED applicants who were no expecting FA received merit or if merit seems to go disproportionately to RD applicants.

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@trytofigureitout, I don’t have any first hand knowledge, but they only gave merit aid to 3.9% of freshman that had no financial need.

That’s pretty low. The top 25% of the class starts at 680 CR and 740 Math, so his scores would have to be pretty high.

You might know all of this already, and he might very well have scores high enough for merit, but just though I’d point out that they’re not a school known for giving out a lot of merit aid.

Sorry, but I have no info on your question about ED and merit aid. Hopefully someone else here does. If nothing else, I bumped your thread :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the bump, I do realize merit is not given to many students at Lehigh (as is the case at most schools in the top 50-100) - that is why I am interested in learning what timing would be best for merit consideration…and yes he is a good test taker (bit above top 25%).