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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our friend hires from Lehigh regularly and recommends the school to everyone our network whose kids are applying to college.[/quote]

This is the reason Lehigh should be ranked higher. These kids all come out with high paying jobs. My kid is a junior and almost every single person he knows has an internship in NYC next summer, some of which have been lined up for over a year now. The Lehigh alums come to campus to recruit and pull the Lehigh students right in. You can see a small subset of internships and job offers on the lehighuwest Instagram page, as they post some of the accomplishments of the students that have been involved in their programs. [/quote]

True. Lehigh started falling in the rankings (from @ #30 to # 50) for two reasons.

1. In the mid to late ‘80s, Lehigh cracked down on fraternity partying and kicked some out. The fraternities owned somewhere between 49% to 51% of the houses. The administration was very ham handed in the way they went about this, and so many fraternity alumni stopped donating to Lehigh. How did this affect Lehigh’s ranking? Back at that time, the alumni giving participation rate was one of the highest in the nation; somewhere between 50% to 68 or 70%, if I am remembering correctly. I know the “top” alumni giving school often switched between Princeton and Lehigh. The alumni participation rate was a big determinant in how Lehigh ranked @ 30 in USNWR. The rate started dropping below 40% with the classes of the ‘80s and beyond, and now it is at only 24% with just 10% of young alumni donating. This contributed in a major way to Lehigh’s slide.

2. In about the early 2000s, USNWR began overweighting diversity figures in the rankings. Lehigh has always had a tough time appealing to AAs because basically, if you are smart enough to get into Lehigh and succeed, you can probably get into an Ivy League or similar school.

If you want to make bank, Lehigh is full of striving overachievers and enjoys a great reputation among employers, especially in NYC. 
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Lehigh is a good school but alums throwing tantrums over Greek life doesn’t reflect well on Lehigh.

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