<p>I am, a HS junior interested engineering major, Chinese minor. Unweighted gpa-3.7 (all honors or AP); class rank-school does not report (highly competitive public school in WMass); SAT-690/680/720; ECs: baseball team (4 yrs), golf team (4 yrs, captain, 12), ski team (4yrs, captain, 12), yearbook staff (11), possibly editor(12), several clubs, summer job, some limited community service-volunteer, meals on wheels, local soup kitchen, crop walk, Habitat for Humanity, Sunday School teacher. Interesting fact–have taken 5 years of honors Chinese (and won two academic excellence awards), will be taking AP Chinese next year (I’m not Asian) as well as two other AP courses. Also inerested in playing on the golf team (average mid 70s).</p>
<p>I think you are a solid applicant compared to the published statistics of the class of 2010, although it might helpful if your math SAT were a tad higher. My daughter is class of 2010, but not an engineering major.</p>
<p>Be sure to visit the school and interview. </p>
<p>Lehigh received just under 11,000 applications for class of 2010. I read somewhere (maybe on a Lehigh web page) that they received around 12,000 for class of 2011. Your success just might rest on why Lehigh is best fit for you.</p>
<p>Are you good enough to play Div. I sports? If so, you should contact the coaches. Even if you don’t plan on playing sports at college, those ECs will enhance your applicaiton.</p>
<p>Visit. Set up an interview. These are crucial pieces of the Lehigh application. Lehigh’s admission office seems to prefer the Ivy League model for its application review: essays and ECs (and you passion for them) diffentiate between candidates. It’s not all about stats, although you need good ones to get in.</p>