Life/Candidates Day or Diversity Life Weekend visitors: What did you like and not like about Lehigh?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Lehigh University
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I wanted to see what people thought about Lehigh! State your likes/dislikes about any of the following:

  1. Student body and community
  2. Campus feel and look
  3. Food (on and off campus)
  4. Faculty
  5. Academics and programs
  6. Dorms and on-campus housing
  7. Parties and social life
  8. Surrounding town area
  9. Miscellaneous
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Students were absolutely amazing. Everybody was very excited to talk about their subject or club. That passion was very neat to see.
Absolutely beautiful campus.
Parties: Awesome
Faculty: Head of department for Chem E was very dry, probably only bad part of the day

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I don’t like that Lehigh seems so focused on their diversity problem. It is actually quite disrespectful to target minorities and the reality is that the school attracts wealthy white students. It is a beautiful campus though.

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The thing that stands out to me is the flexibility of the curriculum and interdisciplinary options. I think mountaintop is unique, although I have no idea what I would do there yet!

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Just back from Lehigh Life Day visit yesterday. My son and I were very impressed.
Students- positive, well spoken, upbeat
Campus- just beautiful, gorgeous day, clean
Food- ate at Rathbone great salad bar
Faculty- talked with several Professors at Dessert reception- friendly, smart, great resources
Academics- engineering well respected
Dorms- smaller size fro freshman
Parties, social life-don’t know, kids we spoke with seem very happy
Surrounding area- parts of South Bethlehem a bit sketchy, North Bethlehem super cute more upscale
Overall looks like a great school academically and from what I observed students seem really happy.

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“I don’t like that Lehigh seems so focused on their diversity problem. It is actually quite disrespectful to target minorities and the reality is that the school attracts wealthy white students. It is a beautiful campus though.”

I feel like it is good that they are addressing the diversity issue and making progress. I am white, and the session we attended was so white that I honestly felt uncomfortable. Apparently that happened because the diversity weekend students were in a separate group.

I want my kids to have the opportunity to know all kinds of students, not only rich white ones. I think it presents an opportunity for all of them to learn from one another.

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  1. Student body and community Engaged, happy, social. Strong community feeling.
  2. Campus feel and look Beautiful. Better than I expected.
  3. Food (on and off campus) Average.
  4. Faculty Prof was a bit boring, but seemed to care a lot about his students.
  5. Academics and programs Very good. Challenging, but not ridiculous.
  6. Dorms and on-campus housing Nice outside. Did not see inside.
  7. Parties and social life Mildly concerned that these sometimes get out of control.
  8. Surrounding town area Less than impressive.
  9. Miscellaneous Impressive placement results.

Negative: Have the impression that there is level of grade deflation. I see no benefit in that.

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@Much2learn Interesting that they put all the white kids together separate from the minorities. That doesn’t sound like a good way to learn from one another.

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@lovetulips This is a common problem for Universities at these admitted student sessions. They want to invite them to a special minority program to make minority students feel more comfortable, but then, obviously, they can’t be in two places at once, and are separate from the white kids.

They don’t do this normally, just for this admitted student event. It also may make it more comfortable for minority students to ask questions that they might be less comfortable asking in the larger group.