<p>Letters. 10char</p>
<p>I'm not a minority, but I did receive an email from one of the people reading my app, saying that I had a great application. I'm a white male with no hooks who applied for engineering and physics. My name is also on that LDAP lookup... the link is in another thread. Word around CC is that if your name is on that lookup table, you got in. </p>
<p>We'll see if that email or the table is any good when decisions come in Monday's mail.</p>
<p>I am a white female and I also got the letter for the Diversity life weekend, so unless they consider females a minority, which some schools do, I'm not sure that this letter has anything to do with ethnicity/minorities.</p>
<p>lol is there any way to check application status? i dont think im going to get in at all considering i have a 3.54 gpa. Maybe i should have lied on the supplement and said i visited campus, i didnt want to lie but i think it would help my chances. Well to all of you that will get in, congrats u earned it.</p>
<p>dave if you're in 4hr radius then they're not gonna like that</p>
<p>im live in long island and am a little over a 2 hour drive away :(</p>
<p>"dave if you're in 4hr radius then they're not gonna like that" - dbear</p>
<p>How do you know this? </p>
<p>Is this why my D did not get a letter? We visted campust tWICE and attended the Diversity Preview Day last October, but no letter. It's true that we live only 30 minutes (21 miles) from campus. </p>
<p>But how do you know this, Dbear?</p>
<p>Word of mouth? I've had classmates with really good stats rejected that never visited cuz they clearly didn't show much demonstrated interest when we live 2hrs away, then there were average students who visited a bunch of times and would've never been accepted otherwise. As for your daughter, idk maybe if her stats are really really good they know she'd pick a different school than Lehigh anyway? There are so many factors, but the word is at my school that if you show that you really wanna be there, you'll be there. The only person I know who was flat out rejected with a good SAT (2100) was someone with a bad behavior record and low low gpa (prob C range). I'm worried about myself because I forgot my Lehigh portal password and had to ask them to reset it.. <em>sigh</em> What does your D have?</p>
<p>And aw Dave i'm sorry! I could be wrong.. are you a minority by any chance? 'Cuz that should help.. Is Lehigh your #1 choice?</p>
<p>Barring any financial issues yea Lehigh was my first choice.. The only logic behind me not visiting was the fact that i didnt want to visit a school that i wasnt sure would accept me. And im White</p>
<p>i didn't technically visit either. but i'm a minority.
ah, okay. well how are you stats - wise?</p>
<p>First semester at college i had a 3.54 gpa my sats and gpa are below Lehigh average though, im afraid of posting them here so as not to be laughed at by all the really hopeful lehigh candidates. (theyre not bad at all, just not EXCELLENT)</p>
<p>dbear: My D is a URM. Below avg. (for Lehigh) test scores but 3.7 unweighted GPA. We live only 30 minutes from campus and made TWO official visits. She even participated in one of those special live chat room sessions for people who had already applied. She did not apply for the Diversity sleepover but that's because she had a conflict with a major event at her HS, but she did attend the Diversity Preview Day last fall. It was on a Saturday. I'm not sure what else she could do to show strong interest.</p>
<p>Dave: My advice is to be braver and think more positively. My D visited several reaches, including Cornell and Swarthmore. Don't just visit schools you're positive you'll get into. Visit the schools you are interested in, and forget about how much of a reach it might be.</p>
<p>I live a little bit over 6 hours away from Lehigh, and never visited. I wanted to but because of a busy summer, and conflicts with school activities almost every weekend I was unable to visit during the school year. Will this hurt my chances of getting in?</p>
<p>My GPA is: 3.35UW/3.66W
9AP's 8 Honors courses
SAT: 1260/1600</p>
<p>Great essays and reccomendations. I would post my entire list of EC's but i dont really feel like typing it right now.
Im also applying for engineering, undecided.</p>
<p>so does that fact that they invited me to the diversity weekend thing in April mean I got in, i am so confused. would they send you an invitation dn then reject you? im freaking out! :(</p>
<p>oh one more thing, where do you look at your name, like someone was mentioning?</p>
<p>CA09, did you get in?</p>
<p>i got in. i was worried for nothing. got rejected from lafayette though.</p>
<p>CA09,
You might want to go to the Lehigh Bookstore and pick up their T-shirts that display “Lafayette” on the front and “For Those Who Can’t Get Into Lehigh” on the back. You see them proudly worn at the Lehigh/Lafayette Football games and they really **** off the Lafayette kids.</p>
<p>that is hilarious.sounds great i definitely will get myself one.</p>
<p>Waiting Dad</p>
<p>You realize the kid said he got into Lehigh and was rejected by Lafayette. Why would he proudly wear a shirt touting the converse?</p>