<p>Which would be easier to get accepted to?....</p>
<p>Well you can’t apply directly to the Liberal Studies Program. If they don’t feel you’re a good fit for CAS/Gallatin/Tisch Film, then they will put you in LSP. So CAS is tougher to get into.</p>
<p>global liberal studies is NOT NOT NOT NOT LSP. GLS is too new for anyone to have any admissions information on it. </p>
<p>[NYU</a> > A & S > Frequently Asked Questions](<a href=“http://gls.nyu.edu/page/faq]NYU”>http://gls.nyu.edu/page/faq)</p>
<p>MAC is right, GLS is not the same as the 1-2 year LSP program they place applicants into. It is a 4 year major that grants a Bachelor of Arts degree in Global Liberal Studies - the program is a Humanities major with a focus in world literature, international studies, and I believe foreign language? GLS is small and new, so it doesn’t receive nearly as many applicants as CAS. For that reason, i think it’s safe to assume CAS is much more selective…although GLS is pretty unique and you have to convey you’re a good fit for such a program.</p>
<p>forget which is easier to get into, focus on which school you’d rather be in. GLS might have a higher acceptance rate, but do you want a BA in Global Studies? if you end up changing your mind, you’ll have to transfer.
if you’re Undecided about your major, I think CAS makes the most sense. you can always transfer into GLS later if you like.</p>
<p>I agree with Alix.</p>
<p>GLS is MUCH harder to get into. U need to be very talented in Humanities in general. Average GLS SAT score is higher than that of CAS… </p>
<p>GLS only selects small number of people too</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore transferring out of GLS. No one seems to know what courses will be offered in the junior year abroad. The first two years are basically identical to the Liberal Studies program. My boyfriend transferred out last year because he thought the GLS program would be like an IR degree. It isn’t. Most of the classes are humanities-type classes. Many of us are worried that graduate schools will not accept us for not completing a major. The academic counselors say that GLS is our major, but really it’s a major of no major. One administrator who always wears polyester mini-skirts (OMG! eek) told me that junior year students will have to take a “tele-conference seminar” with a teacher back home in New York. Like we’ll want to be up at 4 in the morning? She also made fun of the teachers, calling them stupid for not using her blog. I was shocked to hear this. I think almost all of my teachers have been awesome, but there is just a feeling that the administration is making up the upper-division courses as they go along. It’s very frustrating, and many of us worry that graduate schools will not want to accept us unless we complete remedial coursework for a major. The students who are happy like the idea of having an easy junior year of traveling, without having to work that hard on any one thing. </p>
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<p>r u sure u can transfer to GLS after being in CAS? i thought it was a 4 year program?</p>
<p>You can’t transfer into GLS from CAS, but you can transfer out. But…</p>
<p>I disagree with LucyTechtalk (who’s been reposting her comments everywhere) for numerous reasons,</p>
<p>1.) You can double major (I’m double majoring in GLS + East Asian Studies w/ a minor in Public Policy and Management) all you have to do is understand what is going on in the world? Read the website, talk to the advisers with a cohesive plan?</p>
<p>2.) The Junior year abroad courses are outlined on gls.nyu.edu and the respective abroad location’s page (ie: NYU Shanghai) and the classes offered there even have syllabi! Whoa!</p>
<p>3.) I know who LucyTechtalk is talking about, just ignore the one administrator that seems odd, the rest are awesome people especially the advisers who are really helpful.</p>
<p>4.) Most graduate schools are going to look at your GRE scores, your application essays, what you’ve done with your major, etc. It’s not like someone goes “THIS PERSON DID GLS THROW THEIR APPLICATION AWAY!!” If anything, the relative novelty of it would create a space for potential re-read or being added to the “good” stack of applications lol.</p>
<p>5.) LucyTechtalk said the professors are awesome, which the are.</p>
<p>6.) “The students who are happy like the idea of having an easy junior year of traveling, without having to work that hard on any one thing.” <—Gross generalization especially when you look into what you can do in addition to the major. </p>
<p>7.) “My boyfriend transferred out last year because he thought the GLS program would be like an IR degree. It isnt. Most of the classes are humanities-type classes.” <---- He could have minored in politics or a specific study of a region. IR has become the new “business” degree so I don’t know if you’d want it anyways. Especially since it somehow adds quantitative elements to decision making. Like game theory is interesting in a vacuum, but does it really account for the multitude of actors involved in international politics? I digress…</p>
<p>8.) Small classes anyone? Does anyone think that is valuable in and of itself? My friends at BU, Harvard, MIT, NYU CAS/Stern, all have huge classes of 50+. My biggest class maybe has 20ish kids in it? That’s the exception since the others have 15-17.</p>
<p>9.) You can do a 5 year BA/MA program through NYU with the GLS program. Meaning, you can get into NYU GSAS for a masters in Global affairs. Boom, problem solved.</p>
<p>Regardless of what you are looking for in a school, you should always do your own research and really think hard about what you want to do. That is common sense really (no offense to those who didn’t expect what GLS is, better luck next time?)</p>
<p>A friend who quit GLS last year told me NYU hired some advertising agency to do a focus group on what is wrong with GLS. She and others were paid to go to a session where some woman kept kept asking what type of classes they’d really like to take. Everyone told her they would like more electives, and that they didn’t like having to take the same classes as liberal studies students. (History of the Universe is total joke. You never need to study for it. I used class time to study Arabic.) </p>
<p>No one seems to know what is going on here. Advisors keep telling us different things than what the teachers tell us about junior and senior year. Some advisors tell us to look at the courses posted online but everyone knows that these classes cannot be guaranteed because the teachers overseas are not fulltime porfessors of NYU. The dean seems to make up answers all the time and says whatever he thinks will keep us from quitting. Kathaab. Now the dean wants us to choose a concentration but then some advisors say that we don’t have to take any courses in our concentration once we chose it. Enta Magnoon?</p>
<p>A senior that went to Paris last year told me that GLS students got free credits because classes did not work out for them there. Classes that were promised never took place. Be quiet and do not complain, she was told. Here are your free credits. Happy now? You better be. Jeeb Fuluus! Floos. Floos. Floos. </p>
<p>Sorry, but GLS is like Happy Meal. Marketed to make you think you’ll be Lovin’ It, but then you eat and your stomach soon hurts from old greese and you realize it’s just packaging with no nutritional value inside. Everyone seems to be quitting this year. I don’t think I’m learning what will help me find a job that will pay enough to support me. Hopefully another school will admit me and accept some of my GLS credits. Inshallah.</p>
<p>Hi, I am currently a high school student, and I am now considering apply for GLS. Your answer really helped me a lot. However, I just want to know is that possible to take double major in another department? Can I take both GLS and math in CAS as my majors?</p>
<p>@alix2012 Thanks for clearing that up for us. On the Common Application, we’re asked if we’d like to be considered for either the LSP or GSP and then to rank the locations. If I only want to be considered for LSP instead of GSP, is the only way to rank New York as the first location? </p>
<p>So LSP is only offered at the NY campus? While if we’re accepted to Florence, London, Paris those programs are GSP?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>