<p>I'm working with a student who was accepted to engineering schools at both Lehigh and Syracuse. While they are clearly totally different schools, I am looking to students for advice re workload and difference in degree of overall difficulty.<br>
Stats: Male student, African American, from California, hard worker, but also likes to party, no calculus in high school. 3.4 unweighted GPA, 2 AP classes, no math AP.</p>
<p>He has fallen in love with Lehigh based on recent visit, but also really likes Syracuse (visited recently also). My concern is that he will be all work and no play at Lehigh vs a balance (as balanced as any engineer can be) at Syracuse. His mom is looking to me for direction, and although I know Syracuse would be great for him, I'm hesitant to suggest that he NOT go to Lehigh due to its smaller size, superior engineering program and overall experience.</p>
<p>moody, I would imagine that Lehigh Engineering would be tougher for him than Syracuse Engineering, but Lehigh’s smaller environment and lower student to teacher ratio of 9:1 v. 15:1 might allow for him to get more attention and help by the professors in case he begins to fall behind.</p>
<p>regarding social life, Lehigh did make the list of top 20 party schools in the country by Playboy a few years ago, as the students are known to study hard and play hard.</p>
<p>If he really likes Lehigh - remember that a happy student learns and studies better than an unhappy one.</p>
<p>isn’t Lehigh “Study Hard, Party Hard” motto?</p>
<p>But yeah, careful with the racial issue. Lehigh was off my list for that reason, the lack of diversity is kinda crazy but if he liked it maybe he had a better time than I did when I visited. I just felt odd (hispanic, just some moments, comments on minority-highschools and such that just gave me that ugly feeling)</p>
<p>Lehigh is recently going out of their way to increase the diversity of the school. The last entering freshman class, for instance had 7.9% Hispanic, compared to the school average of 5%</p>