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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We stayed at the Hyatt Place and ate at the Apollo Grill and Mister Lee’s.  Bethlehem is the 3rd largest metro area in Pennsylvania. We are from the West Coast and my city kid found it perfectly fine for a college town and appreciated the closeness to Philly and New York area airports.  Having talked to students, most live on campus 3 or more years.  Living on campus for the first 2 is mandatory (with exceptions).  My  kid is not a partier but liked the campus and the vibe.  It was also recently voted #1 for science labs by Princeton review and they liked the labs.  That they liked the vibe and that it’s midsize vaulted Lehigh above several other schools on DC’s list.  [/quote]

Yeah, they live on campus... in a greek house. The scene is wild. The good news is there's a greek house for just about all types... but they all wind up drinking grain alcohol at some point. I've only ever been in about ten fights in my life—real ones—and 8 of them were at lehigh frat houses. If your kids aren't partiers, they will be by the time they leave.

The labs are also nice.[/quote]

You have a very outdated perspective on Lehigh based on our research and tour.  When did you have these fights? When is the last time you visited?

It’s only 20-25% Greek. The housing includes far more than Frat houses but dorms and apartment style units. We didn’t visit any casinos (which are on the outskirts of town from what I understand).  Do you frequent casinos often to speak on such familiar terms about them?  I find your multiple posts to be an indication that you have unexplained issues with the school which to me reflects you or your DCs were rejected from the school because your reality is not what we observed. [/quote]

Well, I'm sure they don't advertise that fighting is a big part of the social scene.

The official greek numbers are 30-40 perecent if you read the school's own documents, and that only counts school-sanctioned frats and sorrorities. Quite a few are booted off campus for bad behavior or sexual assaults and they rotate back onto campus after serving the term. So it's definitely over 50 percent.

The casino is on the location of the old Bethlehem Steel. It's the center of the city—the literal focal point of everything. [/quote]

It is not a given that they rotate back. My sorority was banned and then disbanded by the national. [/quote]

What does a sorority have to do to get banned and then disbanded? I thought sororities don’t throw parties in their houses?[/quote]

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