<p>Personally, I do not see what's so bad about LSP. When you get your bachelor's degree, it'll say "NYU CAS" (or other undergrad school if you didn't apply to the CAS). Technically, your employer or anyone else won't know you were part of LSP. However, I'd rather not go to LSP if it's just a way for NYU to make more money or if it is a place where LSP kids get mocked by the rest of NYU's undergrad schools for not being as "smart" as them. What surprises me is that LSP gets a lot of negative feedback, but it's the 2nd largest undergrad division right after the CAS. I know lots of students doesn't necessarily make it better, but the large student body shows that people do actually want to be a part of LSP. So really, what are the pros/cons of LSP?</p>
<p>i am actually hoping to get into LSP, i haven’t heard back, but our stats look about the same. i have a few friends in the program who absolutely love it, and people don’t really look down upon them. when did you hear back? i hope i get in, whether it’s to LSP or to CAS</p>
<p>I got accepted to LSP and the program is looking really appealing… I think I’m going to do it. I will be going to Tisch after completing the program so I will only have to do it for a year and I will still be able to work on films!</p>
<p>carlygirl, I got a letter in the mail about 1 week ago. I know they’re sending letters until the first week of April, so good luck to you.</p>
<p>erical12, I agree with you. It sounds appealing to me as well, because I really like the whole liberal arts foundation for 2 years and then moving on to classes that are more specific and relevant to your major. I am just hoping than non-LSP students don’t have weird attitudes towards people in LSP.</p>
<p>Also, if you did get into LSP, do you mind posting the school/major you applied for? I applied CAS/Politics.</p>
<p>Much like the OP, I also find LSP to be a pretty good program. After researching the program extensively, it appears that the only major negative is that there is less freedom in a student’s choice of classes for the first year or so. However, the small class sizes makes it very easy to interact with other classmates, as well as to interact with professors. I know a lot of kids at NYU who were accepted to the LSP program and absolutely loved it. A lot of them told me that they actually used their LSP professors over their CAS professors for recommendations for grad school.</p>
<p>I think that the stigma of LSP comes from when the program first started, however it is obvious that the program has undergone multiple changes and has evolved into a pretty decent program overall. The program is NOT necessarily for people with “below average scores”, as you can see from many of the acceptance posts. People with SATs of 2000+ have been LSPed, while people with lower scores (or similar scores) have been accepted to CAS.</p>
<p>LSP is NYU’s second largest incoming class (or so I’ve heard) and no one is going to look down on you for being in LSP! This is college…no one really cares what you’re majoring in or what college you’re part of. And if a person really looks down upon someone for being in LSP…well then…that’s just pathetic and I wouldn’t want to be friends with them anyway…</p>
<p>Hi, this may sound like a stupid question, but I was wondering if I had to fill out a special application other then the regular NYU application to be considered into the LSP program. After reading some of your guys post about LSP, I personally wouldn’t mind at all being placed into the LSP program. On the side note, I still haven’t received my “likely” email yet. Being that some of you guys already got your LSP letters and not the email or got both, does that mean that I won’t be considered for the LSP program anymore?..I hope not =(</p>
<p>No you do not fill out a special application for LSP, you apply to a school in NYU (CAS, Stern, Tisch, etc.) and then the admission officers will individually choose which applications will be considered for LSP. I think its about 11% of the applicants that enter LSP…something along those lines. Also, I think that the LSP letters are done being sent out, as they are usually sent out earlier than the normal acceptance letters. However, i’m not an expert so there could still be a chance of getting a letter for LSP.</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted to LSP today (she applied to CAS). She has similar stats to jerseygirl91, but is unsure if she will be thought of as “second string”. It seems to me that the overall experience is not too different from being accepted ad CAS (same residence halls, etc.), as you end up with the same degree, and you always have to fill certain requirements at most lib arts colleges. Has anyone out there actually attended? And do “regular” CAS students take any courses at LSP? Just wondering if it’s overlapped at all.</p>
<p>I got a 2100 + on my sat 1s, one 800 and two 700+ on the sat IIs, decent gpa and great ECs( tkd state gold), and recieved my LSP acceptance 2 weeks ago. Originally I felt qweezy, but upon completing extensive research, the LSP is pretty appealing actually. </p>
<p>My only concern though is that I applied to CAS, but I want to enroll in the Stern school of business. I wonder how that works if I’m in the LSP :?</p>
<p>i have also found the program to be very appealing, and i found out that oftentimes they admit kids to LSP that have good writing skills/high writing on the SAT, for the program is writing based (no scantrons, woo!), which would explain why kids with 2100+ and 4.0 on their gpa would be accepted into LSP. this program is not for dumb people! don’t think that!</p>
<p>and mike3yo, at the LSP info session they said that you can do internal transfer to any school usually but stern, and out of the kids in the other colleges (CAS etc), something crazy like 1% is able to switch into stern.</p>
<p>yeah, it’s impossible to do LSP —> stern. When they switched from GSP to LSP stern dropped their partnership with it.</p>
<p>I know some very bright kids in LSP–don’t let that bring you down at all. Personally since I’m a sternie I dont find the whole liberal arts focus very appealing but the program as a whole is decent with some great students.</p>
<p>Ah I see. No wonder they put me in LSP! My math score was in the upper 600’s and my writing was in the upper 700s…
Anyhow, oh well for the LSP --/–> stern part.
By the way, was anyone at the LSP info. session in washington square on 03/27 ? I was!</p>
<p>“NYU’s GSP (what LSP was formerly known as)”</p>
<p>Idk about in 06 when that link was from, but now GSP is its own thing, even though its in the same department as LSP. I was accepted GSP and I had to apply to it directly from my application unlike LSP. And GSP is a four year degree instead of just a two-year program like LSP.</p>
<p>Did anybody get emails inviting you to a summer program in Shanghai? Do I have to do it? it said that those who don’t attend will have to take some English language test before September and if you fail you’ll have to take additional language classes… so im confused… does this mean that some students admitted to LSP can’t even speak English!? </p>
<p>P.S. i got 2140 in SAT…and i chose London. Anybody with me?</p>
<p>wanderlust, are you sure you’re not talking about the Global Liberal Studies Program? That’s a 4 year degree but GSP was just 2 years, much like LSP. I found a link online telling me GSP became LSP. I can try to find it if you’d like, because so far, I’ve been convinced that GSP is what LSP used to be. However, you are an NYU student, so let me know if I’m incorrect!</p>
<p>casperyan, are you an international student? I got no such e-mail. I got a 2070 SAT, with a 720 in Writing. (Maybe explains why I got LSP’d.)</p>
<p>casperyan, I got a same letter that invites me to Shanghai as well. I don’t think it is really necessary. Spending one month in Shanghai for 2 points costs both a lot of money and time. the only advantage of doing this, in my opinion, is making some NYU freshmen friends. But it seems that this program is only open to international students from China. And i think no student would dare to apply NYU without certain level of English skills, the English language test is something every international student will take at the beginning of the first semester, for university assurance that you can understand the lectures, so don’t worry! :)</p>
<p>I am a freshman going to take the LSP in Florence in this fall. I found most of LSP students chose London…Don’t know if here’s anyone has decided a same city with me.</p>