Lehigh ED2 chances

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<p>I know that it’s gonna be a nail biter, but here’re my stats (for school of science & art). </p>

<p>SAT: (Oct,Nov,Dec 2014) 610 crit reading & 670 math (1280)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.6 & 3.9 (weighted) w/ classrank: 59/430</p>

<p>2 years of high school french</p>

<p>private admissions visit (for school interest)</p>

<p>Junior Classes:
Hnrs Physics w/lab (A)
Anatomy/Phys (A)
AP Lit & Comp (3/B+)
Hnrs US Hist (A)
Precalc (B-) (gpa/classrank wrecker/every year/my laziness)
AP Stat (4/B)
Gym 100%</p>

<p>Senior Classes:
AP Physics C (B+)
AP Bio (B)
AP Gov (A)
AP Lang & Comp (A+)
Regular Calc (B-) (same story)
Electives (cooking S1/ Criminal Justice S2) 100%</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Tae Kwon Do 4 years
Volunteer 60-still doing it hours: Retirement home, soup kitchen, farm work, leading kids in Tae K D practice, and lab aid
Clubs started before senior year: Robotics and something else?
Clubs started senior year: FCA, Multicultural club, chess club, habitat for humanity, and Science Olympiad (only big one)</p>

<p>Other Stuff Colleges Like:
Starting Hospital Volunteer summer 2015
People to People Fall '07 Forum
Congress of Future Medical Leaders summer 2015 (only going if they give me a “scholarship”)</p>

<p>Unique Stories:
Both parents lost big jobs 4 years ago, made many sacrifices, changes, growth, went from summer world trips to free school lunches, dad started small self-company, mom going back to school, etc
Skipped a year in science (i was year behind smart kids) & started taking 2 a year
PSAT-140 & SAT (1880) w/ no prep classes (not big deal but writing went from 40 on both PSATs to 600 on SAT)
Went from D in english in 7th grade to A+ in 12th (alot of study’n)</p>

<p>Recs:
3 strong, 1 from english, another from anatomy/phys, and counselor
5 peer recs (wanted to fill it up)</p>

<p>Essay:
not started yet :slight_smile: :\ :(</p>

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*bump (honest opinions?..cough…cough… @kikkydee)

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Dan,

I think you have a very very good grades and test scores. You certainly have the leadership qualities Lehigh looks for. I don’t know much about how competitive the Arts and Sciences college is at Lehigh. I don’t know where you would find that kind of break out. My son got into the Engineering program and his grades and scores were just a tiny tad higher than than yours.

But here is my worry - you mentioned both your parents lost their jobs in the past 4 years and things have been difficult. Are you sure you can afford (literally) to apply ED2 and accept whatever financial package Lehigh may give you? You can go back to last year’s posts and the year before that and read about kids who did not get the kind of financial assistance from Lehigh they were expecting. Lehigh is a pretty expensive school.

Applying ED 1 & 2 means you are willing to accept whatever financial package Lehigh offers you. There isn’t any guarantee of what amount of aid you are going to be given. There was someone who applied ED! who got accepted but said she didn’t get enough financial aid.

If the financial package is not a concern then I think you are an excellent candidate for ED2. The worse that can happen is you will be pushed back to regular admission.

Best of luck!!!