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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lehigh is a hidden gem, particularly if you could get financial aid from Lehigh.  [/quote]

Hidden? Not.[/quote]

Hidden to the uninformed.  Asian parents often only recognize top 20 schools.  
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Curious why Asian parents are so hung up on USNWR top 20? So ignorant. [/quote]

Immigrants from Asia often find the US education system confusing. In that part of the world there are national exams given in HS and the score on that one exam will determine not only which college one goes to and also what field one can study.  So they think that their kids need to go to the top few schools to have a good career and life.

In my experience, Asian families where both parents were born here are just like any other family where both parents were born here. [/quote]

+1. Offspring of Asian immigrant parents here, LAC grad, and parent of ‘24 kid. I strongly encouraged them to look at LAC’s but they preferred T-50 universities. I had to remind myself to be more open-minded about my kid looking at larger universities that have name recognition. Things skip a generation? [/quote]

NP. Also offspring of Asian immigrants. Mom was an scientist, Dad an engineer - both got graduate degrees from a public university in the South. My sibs and I were all humanities majors at H/Y/P, and ended up in law, consulting, and banking. LACs weren’t on my family’s radar at that time, but I would’ve loved for my own kid to have considered them. As you said, however, things sometimes skip a generation, and it turns out they’re rather STEM-y like their grandparents - they’re headed to S/M this fall.[/quote]

*”a,” not “an”[/quote]

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