Lehigh is the sh*t!
IntroductionLehigh kids are leaders. Four year letter winners, school presidents, team captains, band leaders, chess champions, valedictorians. The kid at your school that does EVERYTHING and ANYTHING and still has time to get amazing grades and even still, has enough time to get shit-faced drunk on the weekend without sacrificing anything, is the Lehigh kid.
Campus Life and Social LifeMost of the kids at Lehigh are very athletic. There are former four year letter winners every which way you turn. Many kids are active and, in fact, over eighty-percent of the school participates in either varsity, club, or intramural athletics. There are well over 200 clubs for kids to join. A lot of the school goes Greek and it is a large part of the campus life. Think "Animal House" on this one. The frats up on "the Hill" are active from Thursday-Sunday. Lehigh lives by the "Work hard, play hard" mantra. The kids buckle down and study hard during the week and then let loose on the weekends. Lehigh is the highest ranked school on the U.S. News and World Report ranking that appears on the Princeton Review's Top 20 Party Schools (#33 and #17, respectively)
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AcademicsBusiness and engineering are nationally ranked. The business school has great connections on Wall Street and the proximity to Philadelphia and New York City enables business graduates lots of options. Recruiting is amazing and certainly among the best. Journalism program is rising and quickly. Very good connections to the big New York City papers. TAs seldom teach classes except in the entry-level courses.
Student BodyVery homogeneous. Mostly white and 58% male as it used to be an all men's school. However, the school is actively trying to diversify and quickly. New dean of admissions and financial aid is black and the school's new president is a woman- Lehigh is making strides in the right direction.
In Closing...Lehigh is the shit.