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Lehigh University

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityA Faculty AccessibilityA+
Useful SchoolworkA- Excess CompetitionA
Academic SuccessA Creativity/ InnovationA
Individual ValueF University Resource UseC
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyA- FriendlinessA
Campus MaintenanceA- Social LifeF
Surrounding CityF Extra CurricularsF
SafetyB-
Describes the student body as:
Friendly, Afraid, Broken Spirit, Snooty, Closeminded

Describes the faculty as:
Friendly, Helpful

Female
ACT:32
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Lowest Rating
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Faculty Accessibility
A+
She cares more about Extra Curriculars than the average student.
Date: Nov 13 2013
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
Lehigh is very pre-professional. Think yuppies, before they end up on Wall Street. Lots of designer clothes and technology (so.many.apple.products.) lots of business causal, lots of business jargon (networking,personal brands, selling yourself, cost-benefit etc) and I'm not even in the business school.

Lehigh attracts people who like to "play the system," people who look at life through the eyes of an economist (i.e., what is in this for me, what can I get out of this, rational-choice theory.) That's really the common denominator of Lehigh students. They're self-absorbed and want to get the most out of the least amount of effort. It's a personality type and it's the culture of this school. When I was in high school I thought the same way. I figured out how to bullshit my way through classes and getting straight As, while everybody else struggled. Every student at Lehigh is similar to me in that regard; they're all champion bullshitters. The choice you have to make is whether or not your top priority is yourself or not. If you want to cultivate relationships for reasons other than their instrumental value, you might be disappointed at Lehigh. If you believe in intrinsic human value separate from income capacity, again, you may become disillusioned at Lehigh. It's a vapid place but it never presents itself as anything other than what it is. If your principle goal in life is money, status, power, than Lehigh is a great means to those ends, and the people you meet here will be perfect "resources" for you. Just be sure that's what you want. If it's not, after a while here, you won't be able to deal with the bullshit, people will begin to seem to be garbling, speaking in tongues.

Professors are generally great, if you take classes you're interested in.

Also, there's recently been some underlying racial tensions cracking Lehigh's usually placid facade of self-absorbed apathy. Don't think though, that the minorities here are any different than their white counterparts. They're here entirely for themselves too, and many of them are just as rich and just as privileged. They just get upset when some sociopathic douchebag decides to wind them up by spray-painting the n word around campus.

The point I've been laboring at is, if you go to Lehigh, you outta know yourself before you arrive on Campus. If you are suited for the emptiness you'll find here, you'll feel at home. If you're not, you might be charmed for a few weeks, but that'll change when some gust of mountain air blows down Lehigh's dormitory of cards.

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commentWow. You know the jargon would stear away froom credit and recognition that it takes ambtion and strategy to help a business grow. Thinks like using feedback from others, (Corporate social responsibility amongst the closed off snooty types). It's just like the folsk that ccompain about this place and places around the country, yet get in deeper mess as the years go by. Hard to talk to crazy peole and show them a properous happy life and place. sioanara!
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