Physics grad school placement

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<p>Does anyone know anything concerning Lehigh's physics grad school placement?</p>

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<p>Hopefully someone else can help you, but until then take a look at this link -</p>

<p><a href=“http://www4.lehigh.edu/Media/Website%20Resources/pdf/admissions/LU_placementsummary11.pdf[/url]”>http://www4.lehigh.edu/Media/Website%20Resources/pdf/admissions/LU_placementsummary11.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Do you mean how Lehigh undergraduates are placed in graduate school, the job placement for Lehigh graduate students, or the ranking of the Lehigh graduate physics program?</p>

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<p>I mean where undergraduate science (particularly physics) majors go for grad school. I’m interested in Lehigh for my undergraduate studies, but I hope to find myself at a top 15 or 20 grad school for some branch of physics a few years down the road.</p>

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<p>Thanks Lehigh2017, I actually did stumble upon that, but that is obviously very generalized since it represents all majors</p>

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<p>Lehigh has a fine undergraduate program. If you do well in your classes there and you do the right things to prepare yourself for graduate school (academic year research, taking all the physics electives you can, going for REUs in the summer, getting involved in the Society of Physics Students Chapter) you can certainly get into a highly selective graduate program.</p>

<p>Our physics department at IIT is much the same as Lehigh’s and our students routinely get into excellent graduate programs.</p>

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<p>Like the Caltech’s and MIT’s?</p>

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<p>My son had similar questions regarding the BME program. We ended up emailing the Dean and received very solid factual information, so I would recommend you do that as well. Better to deal with facts when making a big decision.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>If i do in fact get in, I definitely will do that. thanks very much</p>

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<p>@EdwardWitten
You should email him before the admission decision because it displays interest as Lehigh supposedly logs emails.</p>

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<p>I was thinking that too, but wouldn’t that come across as me questioning whether Lehigh is “good enough” for me?</p>

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<p>And would you suggest emailing the dean of admissions, or just my local admissions rep?</p>

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<p>EdwardWitten,</p>

<p>If you want the best quality information about graduate placement, you should ask the dean - the admissions folks won’t have access to such specific information. Don’t feel embarrassed to ask questions about how their physics programs stack up. I’m sure they’d be happy to honestly give you an answer, so long as you ask in a polite way.</p>

<p>On the other hand, if you want to demonstrate interest, admissions needs to know about the email.</p>

<p>How about sending the email to the dean and CCing your admissions officer on the email, too? Kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.</p>

<p>Best,</p>

<ul>
<li>Mike</li>
</ul>

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<p>I’m not too worried about demonstrated interest at this point. I have had conversation via email with my local admissions rep (and even once over the phone) where I straight up told him that Lehigh is where I want to be – so if I don’t get in, I highly doubt it will have anything to due with interest. I will go about constructing an email, but I still tempted to wait until decisions are released seeing as the data is useless if I’m not accepted. Furthermore, if accepted, I will most likely visit, meaning that I could ask for the information face to face</p>