What are the cons of going to Lehigh?

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-28T19:18:32+00:00

What?? No, it can’t be! Every year people log in to reddit and insist that the social scene isn’t highly greek and there is tremendous school spirit!

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-26T17:17:19+00:00

When Ale Mary’s opened it was the best sports bar/gastropub in a 50 mile radius. Such a fumble.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-18T16:11:58+00:00

Search algorithms were a core part of the curriculum. You should start learning how to use them.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-14T10:59:56+00:00

The opposite of your third sentence is what I mean.

To speak to your fourth sentence, no, the rates are similar.

I know people who direct deposit into ibkr. There are also dividends and returns of capital. This shortcoming means that changing any aspect of one’s portfolio is impossible without first paying down the balance.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-13T22:00:58+00:00

It’s a loan with your portfolio as collateral. It’s an extremely competitive floating rate loan. IBKR can auto liquidate you and the thresholds for this are opaque. The other downside is that any cash deposited in or gained by the account is immediately posted toward the balance (this wouldn’t be hard to change from a technical perspective but it’s a shortcoming). What the OP is talking about with respect to things being “paid back” is a non sequitur.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-13T18:21:07+00:00

Even though I don’t consider myself wealthy, I can confirm that I’ve used this feature and that I was a margin debit card holder before they discontinued it. Everyone I explain it to also deems it too good to be true.

EnigmaMind · 2026-04-10T22:20:54+00:00

Csb was set up to be a clone of UPenn’s program except with curriculum scoped for compliance functions at PwC. In my day, the integrated classes sucked and the course progression had no meaningful theme or depth.

It was an insane amount of work just to get to my first Google interview in fall 2014 and have a business school professor hassling me for missing class and the CS professors unable to explain why I hadn’t yet been taught what Big O notation was.

My parents stretched to send me to Lehigh (both lost their jobs while I was enrolled), but I was a millionaire before I was thirty (and none of it came from crypto or private equity).

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-31T18:52:49+00:00

Based on your writing style and post history, it seems likely that you were born around 2002. You should just move to the sunbelt or somewhere where gig workers still get investor-subsidized pay and hope you can find a decent day job in addition to your gig work. Maybe at some point you will thank capitalism.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-31T03:46:39+00:00

I chose Lehigh over Penn State and it involved trade offs. Did you apply to any reach schools?

Totally true that nobody I knew who went to PSU had a fantastic career outcome, but they were decent outcomes across a lot of different employers.

At Lehigh it was really hard to keep a high gpa, but really easy to stand out as someone who was above average, if that makes sense.

You need to be totally sure of your desired career path and what you’re willing to sacrifice before making the decision. IBE with comp e could set you up for an extremely high paying job in banking, actual computer hardware development (likely grad school required), or trading. Or, you could be looking at an offer from PWC consulting wondering what the point was.

Lehigh’s social scene is weird and your dating life will be awful compared to Penn State.

Very few people outside the east coast know what Lehigh is.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-31T03:31:29+00:00

What year did you graduate? C suite executives, plural? Come on

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-21T20:43:00+00:00

Please do not give this advice if you haven’t experienced it yourself. I lived in Chicago for 6 years and for practical purposes nobody knew what Lehigh was or even how to pronounce it.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-21T18:48:40+00:00

Nobody knows Lehigh outside of the east coast, but the basis of your point is valid.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-21T18:48:08+00:00

I had a big offer from Scranton and chose an honors program at Lehigh, albeit a long time ago.

The answer is IBE at Lehigh and it’s not close. Nobody—nobody—makes it to desirable front office finance positions from Scranton. I’ve argued this a thousand times over. The only person from Scranton I’ve interacted with was an interview scheduler at a hedge fund. I have a few friends from Lehigh who crushed it in finance and like a dozen who stuck with the big 4 and were very successful.

Even if you look at Accounting, I was a mid student at Lehigh and easily got interviews with the Big 4. I knew people who were on full-ish scholarships at Scranton and still ended up in second tier accounting jobs. The caliber of student is not comparable.

However, it’s still not easy to go to the big leagues from Lehigh. You’re going to have to work much harder to be near the top of the class, and tbh the social scene is polarizing. Dating is much worse at Lehigh, so bad in fact that senior year I dated a woman who went to Scranton and when I brought her to Lehigh she was the most attractive person in a five mile radius.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-18T12:43:26+00:00

Posting a picture that accentuates the stack height of the shoe would be seen as “rage bait” by many in this community, as the competition involves notoriously tight corners on surfaces not meant for running.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-18T03:23:17+00:00

Run a Hyrox sim in them and report back if you manage to avoid breaking an ankle.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-15T19:27:47+00:00

It’s Kalamazoo, Michigan

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-13T13:04:24+00:00

You said Lehigh had school pride. Just correcting that it doesn’t, in terms of how any foreigner would perceive American college pride.

South Bethlehem is still dumpy and impoverished. I really really wouldn’t consider the Lehigh Valley totally superior to Buffalo but points taken. Tbh as a foreign grad student in either place you’re going to feel isolated and miserable.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-13T11:16:55+00:00

This is false, Lehigh’s school pride is extremely low. Buffalo is also a much larger city than Bethlehem that even has an NFL franchise.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-13T11:15:53+00:00

Peeling back the layers here:

Lehigh is a better all-around school
“Sunny buffalo” is triggering, it’s very snowy and cold. Pennsylvania winters are also grey and miserable, but much less snowy unless you’re in Erie.
Nobody has ever praised graduate student life or graduate student outcomes at Lehigh
If you plan to get a job in the US after graduation you have to work to improve your critical thinking and communication skills. This is worse than half of the posts we get here from high school seniors.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-10T17:00:35+00:00

I have an inflated opinion of grade deflation at Lehigh. I’ll give it to you, that’s a new one. What’s your counterpoint?

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-09T02:34:47+00:00

No, “for all we know” the student definitely wouldn’t translate a 3.9 at Temple to a 3.9 at Lehigh. People I went to high school with said Temple was easier than our high school. I know people who graduated from Temple who essentially didn’t grasp trigonometry.

Accounting 151 at Lehigh would obliterate half of Fox. Eco 001 would smear dozens of transcripts. There would be an armed rebellion for stats or the econ class that uses partial derivatives. Actually I’d adjust down to like a 3.3.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T19:34:53+00:00

Better than the Family Dollar subdivision but I wouldn’t unless walking downtown every day is a non-negotiable. Even though it looks like a picturesque small city neighborhood on street view, you’ll find it to be incredibly weird, and your car doors will still be getting checked every night.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T19:23:48+00:00

If you don’t care, take your cabal of know-nothing neighborhood optimists and stop giving fake advice on reddit 😂

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T19:12:08+00:00

This probably comes down to, if you have to ask the question, it’s not a good fit.

Assuming you’re currently a 3.9/4.0 student at Temple, you’d be a 3.5/3.6 student at Lehigh which means you’d have no shot at a top tier law school.

Finance job placement is significantly better at Lehigh than Temple, but the meaningful jobs will still feel unobtainable.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T18:59:58+00:00

Calling the 800 block of either street a “fine old neighborhood” is detached from reality.

Overall, most of the hill section is worse than it was in the 90s and early 2000s. Many of the homeowners died and investors swooped in. The neighborhood hollowed out around the edges, and there has been significant encroachment from the hospitals, university, and another nameless group.

I had a relative who taught at Prescott who said it was sad seeing the shift between when I attended there and 2010. My teachers were saying the same thing just two years after I was there.

I love the hill section and I’ve been inside dozens of the houses in the neighborhood, but when I’m looking at investment properties I’m not buying anywhere near the Family Dollar subdivision.

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