Our Utility Course of, Ideas and Deadlines

Utility Necessities, Deadlines & Course of

Lehigh accepts the Frequent Utility and Coalition Utility, so please comply with the procedures in your most well-liked platform’s web site to finish your utility.

As soon as your utility is submitted, a affirmation electronic mail might be despatched to the e-mail handle you designated in your Frequent Utility or Coalition Utility inside one week.

As soon as your utility is submitted, a affirmation electronic mail might be despatched to the e-mail handle you designated in your Frequent Utility or Coalition Utility inside one week. If it has been greater than seven enterprise days because you submitted your utility and you haven’t obtained a affirmation electronic mail, please contact the Workplace of Admissions at [email protected] or (610) 758-3100. In your electronic mail, please embrace your full identify, handle and date of beginning as offered in your utility.

Take a look at Optionally available Coverage for Fall 2022 and Fall 2023

Lehigh will lengthen the take a look at elective coverage for admission to the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 educational years , whereas persevering with to guage its influence. This enables first-year candidates (except candidates to the accelerated program with SUNY Optometry) and switch candidates to decide on whether or not or to not submit SAT or ACT take a look at scores for consideration. Potential student-athletes ought to comply with the NCAA and Patriot League necessities.

We urge college students to contemplate how they will finest display their faculty readiness and educational strengths. For some college students standardized assessments will replicate their potential to achieve a rigorous educational setting, so we encourage potential college students to take the SAT or ACT and decide if the rating displays an correct image of their faculty readiness. Nonetheless, different college students could as a substitute select to offer proof of their capabilities by way of different methods together with curriculum selections, classroom efficiency, extracurricular involvement and trainer suggestions.

Outcomes from an English proficiency evaluation have to be submitted for non-US residents except the applicant’s first language is English, or the final two full years (not together with present 12 months of research) of accomplished formal instruction have been in English.

The Lehigh Method

The Workplace of Admissions opinions functions holistically based mostly upon the data we obtain for every particular person scholar. Annually we search to enroll college students who will thrive in Lehigh’s rigorous educational setting, and can contribute to our vibrant group in several methods. A various instructional group advantages all, and so we worth college students who signify quite a lot of educational pursuits, totally different backgrounds, life experiences, views and skills.

Our holistic evaluation acknowledges the person’s traits and achievements—which will be discovered within the faculty transcript, suggestions, essays, extracurricular accomplishments, management experiences, and different components which is likely to be distinctive to the applicant. We additionally take into accounts the affect of the environments by which a scholar lives and learns has on the person—famous within the faculty profile, scholar’s private background and extra.

Flexibility for COVID-19 Circumstances

As we proceed to navigate by way of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lehigh understands that college students have skilled quite a lot of challenges – from modifications within the instructional programs and AP examination insurance policies, to monetary and private losses for households. Please remember that the next measures are in place and will guarantee you of our dedication to college students:

• We’ll make the most of a take a look at elective coverage for the SAT or ACT through the 2021-22 and 2022-2023 years.
• Flexibility with different grading strategies: Lehigh’s Workplace of Admissions will proceed to evaluation transcripts based mostly on the person faculty’s practices and insurance policies throughout our evaluation course of. Different grading strategies being utilized through the COVID-19 pandemic might be honored in the identical method as the varsity’s conventional grading scale.
• Scores from the brand new on-line format for AP exams might be honored in keeping with our current insurance policies.

Lehigh will proceed to behave with sensitivity as colleges and households make selections that finest swimsuit their college students. You will discover continued updates on the COVID-19 Data Heart.

Utility Ideas

• Begin early
  to present your self ample time to get by way of the faculty choice and utility course of.
• Contemplate all that you really want us to learn about you
  after which guarantee that every is mirrored someplace in your utility.
• Authenticity is the important thing
  to submitting an utility that stands out. Focus much less on becoming in a field and extra on sharing who you’re.
• Examine utility for accuracy and completeness
  and make sure that all required gadgets have been submitted.
• Concentrate on deadlines
  and take into account submitting your utility days and even weeks earlier than the due date.

After You’ve got Utilized

First, Save that Affirmation E mail

As soon as your utility is submitted, a affirmation electronic mail might be despatched to the e-mail handle you designated in your Frequent Utility or Coalition Utility. This electronic mail accommodates directions on open your Applicant Portal. If greater than seven enterprise days have handed because you submitted your utility and you haven’t obtained an electronic mail, contact the Workplace of Admissions at [email protected] or (610) 758-3100. Please present your full identify, handle and date of beginning as offered to us in your utility.

Subsequent, Entry the Applicant Portal

Go to the Applicant Portal to ensure we’re not lacking any of your paperwork. When you’ve got not but opened your Applicant Portal, please consult with the directions in your affirmation electronic mail. If we’re, submit these types by way of the LU FileSender. We don’t settle for lacking paperwork connected to an electronic mail. Please observe that, because of the vital surge in functions and supplies from December 25 to January 8, it could take 5-7 days for gadgets to look as obtained in your guidelines.

Search for Emails, Letters and Applicant Portal Bulletins

We ship essential data concerning functions for admissions and monetary assist, from incomplete notifications to remaining selections. If we lengthen a proposal so that you can be part of the Lehigh group, it can embrace directions for accessing the Admitted Pupil Portal, the place you may pay your deposit, study upcoming occasions and extra.

Applicant and Admitted Pupil Questions

As with every course of, you may discover you have got some questions alongside the way in which. Try our FAQs beneath for solutions earlier than giving the Workplace of Admissions a name.