by lht222 | Nov 19, 2021 | Student Profile
Employee at the Lehigh Financial Aid office, Jennifer Mertz, is more than familiar with the challenges and the struggles that first-generation college students face, as she was one herself. Mertz said going into the college process knowing her parents were...
by lht222 | Nov 15, 2021 | Student Profile
On a normal work day at the office of Senator Bob Casey, Carol Obando-Derstine started to develop an interest in energy, and before she knew it, it blossomed into a full blown passion. Obando-Derstine immigrated to America from Columbia when she was just a child with...
by lht222 | Nov 10, 2021 | Student Profile
Adrian Suarez ’22 said he sought out Lehigh for its generous financial aid. It was just him and his computer, he said, googling different types of schools and different types of financial aid packages, and Lehigh was the best fit. Suarez is an international...
by lht222 | Oct 15, 2021 | Student Profile
Steven Escobar-Mendez is no person to falter in the face of adversity, and his journey to Lehigh is proof of that. Escobar-Mendez ’22 grew up in the Washington D.C area in a predominantly immigrant community, where much of his college life was seen as a...
by lht222 | Oct 5, 2021 | Student Profile
Graduate student Jia Cao, is the first of her immediate family, and one of the few people in her extended family to get an undergraduate degree. However, Cao wanted to take it one step further, and upon her graduation from Ohio State University with a Bachelors in...
