<p>I was just looking through the forums and I read a couple of threads on LSP (which i now know is a separate program)</p>
<p>These people already got their decisions....and I'm just wondering are these people selected because they're IN at NYU? Like likely letters? What does it mean if I didn't receive one?</p>
<p>thanks. I'm just really nervous and i didn't even know about this program :/</p>
<p>No! LSP is a program for students who did not quite meet the admissions standards for NYU. It’s kind of probationary. If they maintain a certain average, they are guarnteed admissions to NYU after 2 years. It’s not a bad thing, but it is not unqualified admissions to NYU.</p>
<p>I was admitted to NYU a few years ago, and truthfully, it was not well-done by NYU. I received invitations to admitted student receptions before I ever received an offer of admission.</p>
<p>hm…that’s really weird of them though!</p>
<p>wouldn’t I be able to sort of know my acceptance/rejection through the LSP people’s stats then?
Since these people are “borderline” persay, rejected people would worse stats and accepted people should have higher stats? o_o</p>
<p>I just want to say that while it is true that LSP students may be somewhat “lopsided,” maybe stronger in one area and relatively weaker in another, e.g., strong GPA, weaker SATs, compared to CAS students, there are a number of them who do excel and do well at NYU. Perhaps even better than students from other schools at NYU (CAS, Gallatin, Steinhardt, Ster, Tisch). As I pointed out in another thread, this is also a competitive and talented group, given the high selectivity of admissions to NYU.</p>
<p>Also, it is a virtual acceptance because the minimum GPA to be maintained is a 2.0 to continue to the school of original choice (Stern and probably Tisch are schools excluded for continuation after the 2 years of LSP), if I recall correctly.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that LSP is still admission, just not admission into the college of your choice. It isn’t that you’re admitted to NYU after the two years - it’s that you’re admitted to the specific school you wanted after two years.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, my LSP letter ended with the following:</p>
<p>Again, I do want to congratulate you on your admission to New York University. We would love to have you at NYU and we think you would add richly to the NYU community.</p>
<p>ayanas is right.
when I first got my acceptance letter to the LSP program I was really (REALLY) upset. I just read that first sentence that said they couldn’t offer me admission to CAS and I pretty much just ignored the rest of the letter. then I started in on some research and it seemed like no one had anything definitive or positive to say about LSP, which only made matters worse.</p>
<p>but then I stumbled upon this article, which made me feel a thousand and one times better:</p>
<p>[The</a> Liberal Studies Program, Explained · NYU Local](<a href=“NYU Local”>The Liberal Studies Program, Explained | by NYU Local | NYU Local)</p>
<p>I could just be trying to console myself here, but I’ve been trying to come to grips with the fact that being “LSP’d” is not a bad thing. one of the biggest complaints I’ve seen among LSP students is that the letter they first received was worded and posed in such a way that made it seem as though they did something wrong, or that they were under-qualified. and it seems to me as though the school is starting to make an effort to dispel these misconceptions and start to really get the word out about this program.
hope this helps.</p>