<p>The nervous, anxious, stressful feeling of waiting for your admissions decision is by far the worst part about the whole process. However, just keep your mind off of the decisions as much as humanly possible and the time will continue to go by much more quickly. I just realized I found out that I was accepted over 2 months ago yet it feels like a week, whereas the week before decisions came out felt like 2 months.</p>
<p>I’m SURE you’ll do fine, though.</p>
<p>One more piece of advice, do not keep checking the portal. Somewhere, someone will be checking constantly and when the decisions are posted you’ll know within a few minutes on this forum.</p>
<p>They didn’t update my financial aid information until AFTER I had been accepted. I had no clue if they did or did not receive it. Anyway, try not to obsess over the portal too much, even though I know first hand that that’s easier said than done.</p>
<p>I applied Early Decision 2 to Lehigh and I couldn’t be more anxious about receiving the a admissions decision. Would anyone happen to know the date when Lehigh normally releases ED2 decisions? All I got from admissions was sometime “mid-February” which could not be any more ambiguous!</p>
<p>Welcome to the my world! They will not be any more specific, unfortunately. Even up until the hour before decisions came out for ED1 they were saying “all we can say is mid December.” </p>
<p>So, I would really plan to check on the 13th but don’t be surprised if its the 17th like it was for me!</p>
<p>I remember talking to someone about this, but I wanted to ask more people:</p>
<p>Does Lehigh only take into consideration the Institutional Methodology when considering Financial Aid? This is a concern because there is a $10,000 difference in Estimated Family Contribution which affects my Financial Aid. Lehigh told me they used the Institutional Method when calculating my aid, if they used the Federal Method, I would have $10,000 less in EFC. </p>
<p>I’n conflicted because on one page of Lehigh’s website it says this:
“The calculator will ask whether you want it to use the FM (Federal Methodology) or the IM (Institutional Methodology) to determine your EFC. You can look at both in order to compare, but you should know that Lehigh and most private institutions use the IM.”</p>
<p>and on another:
" We take into account both the federal methodology and our own institutional calculations."</p>
<p>I’m hoping they use the Federal because I would get more aid which would put a less of a burden on me and my parents.</p>
<p>They definitely use the institutional methodology. I checked their website and saw several places where they said they only use the institutional and then one place where they did say they take into consideration the federal methodology. So I understand your confusion… However, I looked it up and found this -</p>
<p>That list just added a lot more confusion for me, haha. </p>
<p>According to that list, Yale is a Institutional Methodology college, however when my brother went there, his EFC was way less than what Lehigh is telling me. His EFC reflected the Federal Methodology amount and my family’s financial situation hasn’t changed since he’s been at Yale. I’m not sure if I should bring this up to Lehigh or not. It’s not a deal-breaker for me but having more aid and being in less debt is appealing to me as well for others.</p>
<p>Oh I’m sorry haha! Well, I’d recommend you ask Lehigh then because it is definitely a legitimate concern. It’s possible that Yale has since changed their method from federal to institutional, though. Another option is that the ivy leagues have more money for financial aid given their 10 figure endowments. My friend who was accepted to Princeton is receiving almost $25,000 a year in financial aid even though his family’s income is about $175,000. So I wouldn’t focus on that TOO much. Still, it might not be such a bad idea to call or email Lehigh’s financial aid department.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when the ED2 decisions are supposed to come out? Last year they found out around this time I think and the year before the 14th. Any time I call they say mid-feb which is very frustrating!</p>
<p>ED II guys you might want to check your portal. I just received an email 5 minutes ago at 1150 PM that my application was ready to review for regular decision even though everything has been in since early December. so they are done reviewing ED II for sure</p>