Winter can be a time of great anticipation in a high school senior’s life – half of the final year in a familiar environment is over, which is stressful in and of itself. Cold weather (for many of us) and anticipation of snow days are yet another thing to pile on top. Add to that the excitement of teams and organization awards ceremonies, winter holidays (what will the awful gift from your crazy Aunt Judy be THIS year?), and of course, the college application process? When it rains, it pours.
For some, the stress will be because many colleges – like Lehigh! – have a January 1st deadline and for others, because they’ll receive an Early Decision notice from their first choice school. The Admission staff here in Bethlehem were busy this fall, and all told, read nearly 10% more Early Decision I applications compared to last year! We started on November 15th, and currently, applicants are being passed through our Office of Financial Aid for review.
This year, we’ll be mailing all of our Early Decision I applicants their official notification on Friday, December 16th. This means that these students should have a decision in hand by Tuesday, December 20th, even as Early Decision II and Regular Decision applications arrive in hopes of joining the class of 2016.
If you’re working on applications, hang in there… we’re excited to read them!
Some of the most noteworthy words and phrases so far:
perspicacious
milieu
“prodigious intellect”
“foursquare assiduity”
“oozes integrity”
mellifluous
besotted
“…made leap-and-bounce progress.”
inimitable
“…accustomed prosaic life”
assiduously
temerity
elucidate
colluding
Have a cookie (I don’t care what holiday you celebrate, cookies are delicious) and a happy, healthy and hopefully relaxing break!
Sarah Knechel
Senior Assistant Director of Admissions
I cannot wait to hear back! I want this so bad! I just love Lehigh.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I know of various other institutions that e-mail the decisions to the students, and will then follow with a letter through the mail. Is this how it works, or should I just look for the letter come Monday or Tuesday?
ReplyDeleteWhen the portal is working (and we've had major upgrades to the system this year that have brought some unexpected problems so we apologize in advance), we typically post on the day that the letters are mailed. It just takes a few days to get to all of the students. We typically do not email decisions.
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