Racism at Lehigh?

Britsmum
Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:01:34 +0000

I too was worried about diversity at Lehigh, judging from what I had read on this and other forums. My daughter is Asian, we come from a VERY white community in Massachusetts so Lehigh looked extremely diverse when we visited. In my daughter’s dorm hall, roughly 60% of students are minority. I have pictures from her prelusion program and it is about 50/50. I am very surprised at the level of diversity. That being said, there have been some incidents at Lehigh, no doubt brought on by a few, but when I questioned my daughter she had no clue anything was happening. She has never felt discriminated against, feels completely included and absolutely is loving her Lehigh experience. One of her comments was " I wake up in awe every day that this gets to be my school" and another is that “lehigh is like the first song in the muppet movie” , lol. Look it up, it’s tittled I’ve got everything that I want. It really sums up her experience so far at Lehigh.

We visited Lehigh 4 or 5 times before she decided to apply, and never once did we feel any negativity whatsoever. The students were awesome and welcoming and we always walked away happy and more sure that she would choose this amazing school.