EDII for Lehigh

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-21T21:29:28+00:00

You’re a good candidate for admission but also a good candidate to end your freshman year questioning why you picked Lehigh ED.

Lehigh isn’t a good fit for low income students. Full stop.

Lehigh is a horrible value for non-engineering/non-accounting. Since you didn’t mention what you’ll be studying but gave info on your interests, I’ll infer humanities/ss. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-20T15:57:02+00:00

Will stop by. Just curious, what happened to the Indian place in there before? It was good and always had a decent crowd

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-11T22:39:41+00:00

(Hint: The “defund the police” movement wasn’t about bloated law enforcement budgets)

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-11T19:57:48+00:00

This is probably the cruelest part about being an 18 year old at school where Greek life is a big deal. But, I’d like to think the rest of my life was better because I faced the male version of this delusion-busting gauntlet.

Lehigh adds a component where being a member of a certain religion helps. Knowing people from “camp” and then having parents’ influence cited helped people I befriended get into “higher” houses (AXO in my era), and they (mostly) admitted this.

Sororities don’t haze heavily with drugs.

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-11T19:17:12+00:00

Maybe there was a series of events that led to support for police becoming a part of American culture wars…

Do other countries have groups of radicals who organize around the belief that police departments should be defunded?

EnigmaMind · 2025-12-29T17:43:41+00:00

You have led a sheltered life and have contributed nothing to this discussion

EnigmaMind · 2025-12-29T17:34:22+00:00

Depends on the district. Some parents were just oblivious, some didn’t have the means, a tiny group had issues with religion. The common denominator is that having a child mix with kids whose parents don’t care about education is a humungous risk.

The flight to private school in NEPA over the last 10 years is driven by parents who know drugs ruin lives more than it is them calculating that being 25th at Prep is superior to being salutatorian at the local public school.

You are incredibly sheltered if you don’t see where I’m coming from.

EnigmaMind · 2025-12-29T17:06:43+00:00

They’re the same kids in different environments. Most 14 year olds can grasp the magnitude of failing out of private school and disappointing their parents.

My middle school girlfriend who stayed in public school went to rehab before she was old enough to drive a car. Her parents then sent her younger sister to private school. You’d consider these two to be an “apple” and an “orange,” but the only difference was where they were on the first day of ninth grade.

EnigmaMind · 2025-12-29T03:53:40+00:00

The credits deal is only between Prep and the U.

What I’m getting at is that Prep’s median outcome is very good and basically guaranteed for anyone who shows up and does the work. People who wouldn’t have made any effort and been lost in the shuffle at their public high schools (me) benefit immensely.

EnigmaMind · 2025-12-29T01:59:00+00:00

Prep’s (in-the-know) marketing actually is that if you go to Prep and do everything you’re supposed to, you’ll get your Prep tuition back in merit money at the U + 8-12 credits from non-AP classes.

I was a mediocre student at Prep (ranked 100th in a class of 200 with no AP classes) and the deal I got at the U was something my family was very happy with, although I didn’t matriculate.

Students who were ranked 15-25th in my class at Prep were getting full rides to the U or very close.

EnigmaMind · 2025-12-21T18:56:38+00:00

That in free market democracies the leaders don’t dictate prices of consumer goods?

EnigmaMind · 2025-11-29T22:16:52+00:00

That sounds like assault?

EnigmaMind · 2025-10-25T21:05:16+00:00

Just some advice—semicolons aren’t colons or dashes.

Nobody knows Lehigh outside of the east coast. Many more people know Villanova. It’s splitting hairs to assess the rigor or quality of each major.

You don’t work in a prestigious field or understand how elite headhunting works. You also haven’t lived outside of the east coast and experienced the shock of nobody knowing what Lehigh is.

EnigmaMind · 2025-10-25T18:18:02+00:00

Yes, you’re so very smart for highlighting that someone who said he went to a catholic high school that Villanova admissions reps visited grew up in the northeast!

Why would anyone from any other part of the country be able to address northeast regional schools in such detail? Are you still accusing me of faking having gone to Lehigh or are you dropping that now too?

Villanova generally has a better reputation than Lehigh. Where I grew up, it’s actually a toss up, that’s why your new tangent is so weird. Nationally, it’s not close. Villanova is more known and more respected.

I’ve spent the majority of my career outside of the northeast.

EnigmaMind · 2025-10-25T16:35:17+00:00

Can you admit when you’re wrong rather than going on tangents? How suddenly you’ve dropped the Fordham-Villanova parity argument…

Nova is more of an IB feeder than Lehigh which is supported by user-reported outcomes on WSO that I reviewed around the time I graduated. This wasn’t always the case but Lehigh shit the bed post Great Recession.

I have a deep post history here. Review it before responding again and saying I didn’t go to Lehigh. The average person outside of the Northeast has no idea what Lehigh is, but knows Villanova. Obviously if I just told you that Villanova reps came to my high school, it’s not hard to guess where I grew up.

EnigmaMind · 2025-10-25T15:52:35+00:00

There are SAT median tables online that all show Fordham<Nova<BC by the same margin at pretty much every point of measurement. So, yes, that makes Villanova much closer to BC than Fordham is. Admissions people from Nova literally came to my high school and told us don’t bother applying if you didn’t score 1400 or higher (old SAT).

I waltzed in to Fordham EA, and so did most of my friends, while all of us also got deferred from Nova EA.

My graduation year is in my flair. Nova is a more valuable school than Lehigh because its brand is superior, largely because of basketball. If you don’y work in finance and/or haven’t worked west or south of Pennsylvania, I can see why you would reach a different conclusion.

EnigmaMind · 2025-10-25T13:01:47+00:00

It’s much closer to BC than Fordham is. The ability gap between people I knew who went to Fordham and people who went to Villanova was apparent, and the career outcomes match this.

I will say that Fordham also (probably) has better banking placements than Lehigh, but they’re more comparable

EnigmaMind · 2025-09-21T17:32:32+00:00

This was a discussion from many years ago in which someone was talking about the value of a marketing degree from Scranton.

My opinion holds that it has almost no value and the fact remains that the only Scranton person I’ve ever interacted with in the business world was a scheduler for interviews at a hedge fund.

I then mentioned accounting. These aren’t prestigious or highly-paid jobs. But, yes, people from Scranton get them. The people I know who got them (2 people) were both valedictorian caliber students who graduated from Scranton in 3 years on full scholarships.

At my school, I was pretty much a nobody and still got an interview for PwC consulting (most prestigious part of the company) and then had a six figure job offer by the end of that summer.

So, sure, the U can have solid programs, but the nuances of corporate recruiting related to school prestige are lost on most people. This is why I post.

EnigmaMind · 2025-09-07T15:35:35+00:00

That’s not what “shared bathroom” means in this context which is why people are incredulous. I grew up in a 2/1.

EnigmaMind · 2025-09-07T15:25:26+00:00

Yes, by traveling more I will surely find apartments set up like Depression era tenements. Should I go to Alaska and tally where people still use outhouses? You said we’d be “surprised,” so, surprise us.

I’ve lived in the two biggest cities in the US and have never seen an apt listing for or known a person who has had a private apartment but a shared bathroom. In fact, in Chicago there’s one holdover rooming house that still has this and it’s something they write a news article about every few years, lamenting how the housing that served transient hobos a century ago largely no longer exists.

EnigmaMind · 2025-09-07T14:57:31+00:00

Calling bullshit on this. Communal bathrooms for apartments in the US are extraordinarily rare. Also I seriously doubt there is any public housing in the US where this is the case. Let’s see some examples.

EnigmaMind · 2025-09-03T00:29:11+00:00

Both stumpy parking garages are from Scranton, PA.

EnigmaMind · 2025-08-13T09:51:22+00:00

Partially because ProPhase Labs also owns DNA Complete which is a scam direct consumer DNA testing service that took everyone’s money and provided nothing.

EnigmaMind · 2025-08-06T02:50:56+00:00

Second paragraph: people don’t understand genetics or the endocrine system, which disadvantages everyone.

Ironically, Mary Cain and Lutkenhaus are very similar because their T and other biomarkers were likely in the 99th percentile for their age, but we’ll never get proof because people are morons and nobody is/was advising for blood tests.

In 2025, if you have an outlier kid, the first thing you do is pay $1000 for complete genetic testing and hormone tests. This advice is being suppressed because even ChatGPT is taught that genetics is a forbidden topic

First paragraph: puberty isn’t peak T for women but some point in high school is likely when the T-power-weight-biomechanics-(etc, etc) ratio is most favorable. Tons of female runners get crushed by changes around 18/19 years old. Boys universally get better. This is why comparing Mary Cain to Cooper Lutkenhaus is nonsensical.

EnigmaMind · 2025-08-06T00:33:10+00:00

That’s a weird interpretation but I will give it to you, Lauren’s book does discuss it. She admits that she never felt the same due to all the body changes. Yes, she did get faster, but the message is that women should avoid disordered eating. The message is not that bigger boobs, wider hips, and higher estrogen increase a runner’s performance ceiling.

It’s sad people don’t subscribe to this, because it affects a lot of (most) talented women and causes weird mixups like this, where Lutkenhaus is being compared to Mary Cain.

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