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Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn? It was 2 AM. As my fingers moved across the keyboard, words sprang onto the surface of my laptop screen like drops of tar. Word count revealed that I had only written 500 words today. … Read more A Fairy Tale

What do you and Lehigh have in common? Please reply with 250-350 words. Since I was a toddler, my father has taken me sailing on the Long Island Sound. As I grew older, I began to ask questions. How do the sails move the boat forward? Why isn’t the boat pushed over by the wind? … Read more A Common Thread

Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story. He reached out, unfurled his hand, and looked up at me with what can only be described as a look of … Read more Coming Full Circle

What values do you believe are important in fostering a cohesive, successful, and supportive campus community? Please provide us with details from an experience that you had that has shaped these values. A baseball player my entire life, I often find myself comparing the sport to different things in life. In my eyes, a college … Read more Cohesive Campus

What values do you believe are important in fostering a cohesive, successful, and supportive campus community? Please provide us with details from an experience that you had that has shaped these values. (1000 character max) A good university is, in many ways, a lot like a strong soccer team. Just as Lehigh does not have … Read more Just Like a Soccer Team

Topic of your choice. Giving up my weekend nights for swim practice was something I was used to by the time I reached high school. Swimming, I felt, was my niche, and with that niche came many sacrifices. Yet, for all the “hardships” that came with it, I earned the benefits back ten-fold. Practices were … Read more How Swimming Has Affected My Life

Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. It was a crisp, clear January day in Park Ridge, New Jersey, a few miles from the middle of nowhere. Before me stood an imposing sight: Schubert’s Impromptu. With a length of fourteen pages and … Read more Piano Conquest

Any Topic “Merudh, get up, get up!” It was four in the morning, and I was four years old. The heart-pounding sound of my dad’s voice woke me out of a deep sleep. As I peeked through my bedroom door, I saw my father bolt out of our house with my mother in his arms. … Read more A Simple Smile

Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again? The best way to learn is through blood, sweat, and a little bit of vomit. Prior to my relatively new experiences in EMS I always believed that the classroom was where you … Read more Challenging the Classroom

Lehigh values inclusive leadership, where students make decisions, take action, and contribute positively to their communities in ways that are purposeful, socially just, and built on integrity. What does this mean to you? I always thought of living life through the saying “quality over quantity”, but when dealing with problems like child poverty, or teen … Read more Quality, Quantity, and Inclusive Leadership