<p>I got accepted into Liberal Studies. So what dies this mean for my ED agreement, this is from the email:</p>
<p>"As an Early Decision applicant, you may choose to spend your freshman year in the Liberal Studies Program at our New York City campus, or at one of our four global academic centers in either Florence, London, Paris, or Shanghai. The enclosed FAQ has all of the details you should need to make your decision.</p>
<p>Since we are unable to offer you admission to the College of Arts and Science, you are not obligated, as an Early Decision applicant, to enroll at NYU unless you accept our offer of admission to the Liberal Studies Program. Only when you accept our offer of admission and pay your enrollment deposit, will we consider you to be bound by the Early Decision Agreement."</p>
<p>so I can basically back out of ED if I want?</p>
<p>It’s a 2-year program where you can choose to stay in New York or go to one of their four satellite campuses in Florence, London, Shanghai, and somewhere else. The unique part is you can go there as a freshman.</p>
<p>In terms of what LSP is basically it’s a program you have to be as a freshmen and sophomore. It’s pretty much a program for students who NYU feels isn’t currently qualified to be in CAS, etc…</p>
<p>You can back out of ED if you want, for now. That lasts until you either accept their offer or not (which is on a time limit, if I recall). If you do, you fall under binding again. </p>
<p>Liberal Studies is a program at NYU which basically requires you to take your general education for the first year and a half to two years in the form of writing, history and culture classes. It is the second largest freshman class at NYU and allows you transfer to your original school after you complete it. While in LSP, you may take classes for your desired major at the school you initially applied for. At the end of LSP, you transfer to that school and start taking only classes pertaining to your major/minor. </p>
<p>You were picked for LSP because the admissions decided you would benefit from having more liberal arts-oriented classes with smaller student sizes and more discussion based curriculums. LSP gets the bad stigma of being the “under-qualified” school because it was originally designed for under-qualified students. Today, it’s a lot more improved and students from LSP are just about as qualified as normal NYU students. The program will be directly applicable next year.</p>
<p>Attending is based on you. If you aren’t interested in writing/history or discussion-based classes, I wouldn’t accept the offer. If it sounds like an interesting experience, then go ahead if you can afford it: there are a lot of LSP students here and we’re a pretty neat bunch.</p>
<p>I was accepted LSP today as well, and after reading all about it (I had no idea what it was before) I’m actually really excited to do be in it! And, if I were applying next year, I would probably have applied directly to this program. It seems like a perfect fit for me. </p>
<p>Forbiddendonut99, as you are a current LSP student I’m hoping you can answer this question: is there an option to take a language course while in the program? I’m interested in Spanish so it would be kind of unfortunate to be away from the language for two years. However, it’s not a deal breaker, it would just be a great bonus if it was offered. Thanks.</p>
<p>Unless the program has changed in the last two years, you have to complete the 8 required LSP classes (Cultural/Social I, II, II, Writing I & II), in addition to the other CAS requirements (2 science, 1 math, intermediate level for a 2nd language). You may waive the science/math requirements by having IB/AP scores, and waive the language/math requirement by taking a placement test (you can’t test out of science). In your first year, you’re required to take Cultural, Social and Writing in both semesters. That gives you one extra class in which you can take whatever you want. In colleen17’s case, you can choose to take Spanish, but you may want to get the science out of the way if you don’t have any credits. Or you can take other electives to explore your possible majors.
In your 2nd year, you only take 1 LSP class per semester (Social/Cultural III), which gives you 3 free classes per semester. You will then definitely be able to take a language, classes pertaining to your major/minor etc.<br>
You of course, could choose to take Spanish each term during freshman year and take science (along with Spanish and other classes) during your sophmore year. You do need to finish a language beyond the intermediate level anyway.</p>
<p>p.s. You have 4 years to complete the math/science/language requirements but it’s recommended to finish all these before junior year.</p>
<p>Moosey basically covered it. As the LSP website tells you, the first year at NYU for LSP students is pretty packed by required classes. You can use your free elective for a language (not all your electives must be used for your major. Some majors are smaller or larger and you should meet with your advisors and plan accordingly), or wait until sophomore year when you have a lot more room for space.</p>
<p>The good thing about LSP is that by the time you reach Junior year, you’re really only taking classes pertaining to your major and minor. Either way, you’re attending NYU all the same and if you decide to enroll, I congratulate you and hope to see you this coming fall.</p>
<p>The email also said I need to reply in order to receive my “formal offer of admission.” If I did that, would I be committing myself to NYU? If not, then what is the point? If so, then how is that fair since I haven’t received decisions form other colleges yet and NYU wants me to reply in 3 weeks?</p>
<p>I got my email a few hours ago as well and I called the lady in admissions and she said its non-binding. If you accept it basically means that they’re considering you and will mail you an acceptance packet with financial aid in the mail, but you have until May 1 to officially enroll.</p>
