<p>I think that many of those who got into LSP are looking for the reason they had been placed there. I guess that stats of admitted students will be helpful to understand it.</p>
<p>I don’t quite understand your question…
Are you looking for stats of students who have been accepted to LSP or the program’s overall stats?</p>
<p>It sounds like the question is, “What are the stats of students admitted to LSP?”</p>
<p>I’m looking for the stats of those who were accepted, not the overall stats(I think they are not posted anywhere)</p>
<p>I was accepted to LSP earlier this month. my school has a really peculiar grading scale… I have a 4.82 gpa on a 5 point something something scale…and even though our counselors converted those to a 4.0 scale last year, they’ve been telling us this year that it’s not really accurate so they don’t do it anymore. But I would give a rough estimate of 3.65-3.75 (although that’s pretty broad so I guess it doesn’t help much).
Rank is 20 out of 526.
2000 SAT (670 CR 650 M 680 W)
I don’t have an insane amount of extracurriculars, I just have a somewhat hefty handful of EC’s that are meaningful to me, a couple leadership positions.
I’d say I had a relatively compelling essay and probably average recommendations (I wasn’t allowed to read them).
Hooks: bi-racial, sister with cerebral palsy.</p>
<p>I think the main reason I was LSP’d is because I’ve only taken 3 AP’s.</p>
<p>This isn’t going to be that useful of a thread. What worked or didn’t work for someone will not directly apply to someone else, i.e. I had absolutely 0 APs and got into Stern and know other kids who either took or submitted no APs and got into programs all across the school. There are people here with SATs in the 1800s and others with perfect scores, some with valedictorian ranking and some outside the top 25%.</p>
<p>The point is, it’s a very subjective process, and more of it depends on which program you applied to than what your raw stats were, because they’ll pick people they believe best fit the program and add to the breadth of the student body.</p>
<p>I got accepted to LSP earlier last week.
I have a 32 on the ACT, 780 French SAT II, 730 Math 2C SAT II.
I have about a 3.95 weighted GPA.
I studied abroad in France last year (my junior year).
I had taken one AP class before I left and I’m currently taking 4.
I don’t have a ton of extra curriculars but I was treasurer of Girl’s League, volunteered at a book store, tutored, volunteered at my temple, made Honor Roll, and a few more.</p>
<p>Gpa 3.8-3.9
SAT 2000 CR 670 m 670 w 660
Sat II bio 740 world history 640
Ap bio 5
3 out of my 5 classes this year are AP’s
Essays pretty good but ec’s very awful…probably why I got LSPed</p>
<p>ACT 29, GPA 3.7, Full IB</p>
<p>Trust me, guys–every kid who has ever gotten into LSP has wondered why, and still, none of us know. Despite being well-established, LSP is still kind of enigmatic. But it’s awesome. So don’t obsess over why you were placed there, and don’t think it means you’re dumber than kids who weren’t. You’ll drive yourself crazy and get nowhere.</p>
<p>@leena121
My D thinks LSP is actually a better way to go because you have smaller class sizes and you end up in the same school your Junior year. Having said that, she has been accepted to some other fine Tier 1 schools so NYU will be lucky to have her should she decide to attend.</p>
<p>I’m still a little fuzzy on the whole thing as well, but I’ll just say, I think EVERY prospective LSP student should read this article:</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>@PnwParent - I love LSP. Like I said, it’s awesome. My experience in the program has been amazing. I just think kids (myself included, when I was accepted) get the LSP acceptance letter and spend all their energy trying to figure out why they were placed in LSP, what they did “wrong” and why they “weren’t good enough”, etc., etc., when really, those things don’t matter, and there is no finite reason why anyone is placed in LSP. At NYU we joke that the only people who have a stigma against LSP are LSP kids when they first find out they’re in LSP. The things that matter are the program itself, its aims, its mission, the teachers, the classes, etc. </p>
<p>@emmacatherine29 - I write for NYU Local! Everyone should read it! :D</p>