<p>I was accepted into LSP, and then admission into CAS for Art History.
After some soul searching, I feel that Gallatin would be a better fit for me. </p>
<p>After some research, I found this inn the admitted students FAQ's:</p>
<p>"Q:I'd like to change my major/school. Is this possible to do now after I have already been offered admission?
A: If you have changed your mind concerning your intended major field of study since you applied and your new area of interest is in the same NYU school to which you were offered admission, it usually is just a matter of talking this through with your advisor at your summer orientation program (except for the majors in the Tisch School of the Arts and the art or music majors at the Steinhardt School, which require auditions or portfolio reviews, or the Business and Political Economy program in the Stern School of Business, which required a separate application).</p>
<p>As far as changing schools is concerned, students were extended offers of admission based on their intended area of study at the time of application. The committee that selected you for admission reviewed your credentials in the context of that school or program's applicant pool. Plus, we have offered admission to the number of students for each school that we believe will fill the freshman class for those schools, so it is possible that there will be no spaces available after May 1. As a result, switching schools is problematic and typically is not possible."
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I take this to mean that it IS possible(though difficult) for me to transfer into gallatin before my freshman year, but I have to wait for everyone to accept their admission to see if their is room for me.
I also read that Gallatin has one of the highest internal transfer rates, and it is one of the easier schools to transfer into.
Please correct me if I am wrong or if I have misinterpreted this.</p>
<p>1) Does anyone have experience with this?
2) How would I go about approaching NYU for an internal transfer?</p>
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<p>I’m an NYU student, I can help you out. But, this is important: what specifically do you want to study and why do you feel Gallatin would be a better fit for you?</p>
<p>Just on the surface, like they said–changing schools before your freshman year is problematic and typically not possible, meaning it would be really difficult, probably stressful, and 99% won’t end up happening. I suggest that you do CAS for at LEAST your first semester at NYU, if not your whole freshman year. I’m assuming you made this choice and based your soul searching off what you’ve read on the Internet. You haven’t even started NYU yet–even though you think you might, you don’t know what CAS is like or that it can’t adequately meet your academic needs. If you’re there for a year and talk to various advisors and such and still feel like Gallatin is where you belong, awesome–CAS to Galltin transfers are fairly seamless, provided your grades are good.</p>
<p>I think trying to switch to Gallatin before you even start your freshman year is really premature. Again, I know you think you know what you want right now, (and I’m not trying to be condescending, I promise lol) but at least half of the people I know have changed their major/minds about what they want to do since they came to NYU. I wanted to write novels since I was four, and after three months at NYU, guess what? I applied for internal transfer to Tisch Dramatic Writing. You’ll probably change your mind not just once but lots of times before you graduate. What if you went through all the trouble of switching to Gallatin this summer (which I can almost guarantee won’t be possible), and then realize CAS was what you needed after all? </p>
<p>Give CAS a shot. If it’s not what you want, there is plenty of time to transfer to Gallatin–and it will be a MILLION times easier to do so. </p>
<p>Hope that helps, and congrats! :)</p>
<p>Also–what do you mean LSP-CAS? Are you from that small percentage of people that was orginally admitted into LSP and then accepted into CAS before fall? Or were you accepted into LSP to transfer into CAS for your junior year?</p>
<p>I see your point. It would suck realizing that I indeed wanted to stay in CAS.
thanks for the advice:).</p>