<p>@sweetpetite
I agree with missamericanpie. Not a classic college experience at all. Your daughter needs to do some hard thinking as to whether NYU would be a good fit. </p>
<p>I really can’t answer your demographic question. The lopsided female to male ratio seems to be a common phenomenon at other colleges as well (see the Parents forum for a thread on that).</p>
<p>You did ask for my take on it. Granted this was over 20 years ago and I believe demographics may have changed dramatically. I do think socially for those who want to make the effort, there is life outside NYU (although I did date NYU’ers too). During my time at NYU, I met non NYU students through my interests and outside volunteer work.The drinking age at the time was 18, so part of my experience involved NYC nightlife. We got to know people at other NYC colleges through NYU friends. As I mentioned above, I was involved in NYU life although there were certainly opportunities to be more involved. I wish your daughter great success and good luck with her decision. </p>
<p>Edit to my post above: one of the CC’ers has contacted LSP Advising. Apparently there has been a change in policy, although it would be great if someone could get this in writing. Students with 16 or more AP credits are not being allowed to transfer out early.</p>
<p>Greeks make up a very very very small percentage of campus life. That is not necessarily BAD, but the truth is, many students don’t feel the need to be in a frat or sorority. I know people who are happy in Greek life, but it is a small group of people. </p>
<p>No campus. New York City is our campus. No quad. </p>
<p>We have a fake football team. We’re division I in Fencing, I think. We are division III in everything else. </p>
<p>Facebook sums us up nicely. There’s a group called, “I don’t go to college, I go to NYU.”</p>
I understand AP credits don’t allow you to transfer early but finishing the required classes might. I finished liberal studies in 1 year and it wasn’t because I had 32 ap credits (and I didn’t get those credits until I was in CAS) but simply because I had finished all the required classes within a year, so I was done with the program and could move on. </p>
<p>I understand they’ve changed the policy so there’s more classes now and it’s impossible to finish in a year, but if an LSP student does all the classes in 3 semesters, then wouldn’t they transfer into CAS (or wherever?). Because then they would no longer be taking any LSP classes, it makes no sense to keep them in the program. </p>
<p>Also, don’t trust LSP Advising (or CAS advising) too much. My experience with both is that they’re full of idiots who constantly feed students incorrect information. Just the other day I was having an argument with a moronic CAS advisor who insisted I had to take Italian even though I placed out of it entirely because I took the test twice and she kept saying it wasn’t allowed and my first score should count…gahh. Finally a brighter advisor stepped in and told her she was wrong. And LSP Advising told me I couldn’t leave early and that I had to take more of their stupid classes - CAS let me transfer in after a year regardless. LSP Advising also told me I wasn’t allowed to major in Neural Science. In short, LSP Advising is full of s hit.</p>
<p>This has been a wonderful thread to read through. I have a feeling that if I get accepted to NYU at all, I’ll be LSP’d, and I have absolutely no anxieties about that. Thanks, you guys!</p>
<p>I got accepted for LSP just recently and honestly I couldn’t be happier. I didn’t even submit my SAT scores/SAT IIs/APs (I just put them on my app!! crazy) but I poured my soul into those essays. My ECs were great and my GPA was pretty high. I think NYU just thought that I really wanted to go there (it is my DREAM school; cliche, I know). I honestly thought I would be flat out rejected because of my lack of test scores.</p>
<p>Too bad I cannot attend, since my mom is totally against me living alone in NYC. But I am just blissfully grateful that they even considered me for the freshman class. I’m simply one step closer to my dream, and I’ll attend one day for sure!! :)</p>
<p>My essay/short responses were mostly centered around my Iranian heritage. For my first short essay (famous person in NY) I wrote about Anderson Cooper and it was pretty witty. I made it funny and it basically showed how much I loved the guy…</p>
<p>For the poem/haiku portion, I wrote a limerick about my father’s obsession with me learning Persian when I was a child. It was pretty morbid and kind of silly in a way but it was my favorite response. The 3rd response was about the revolts going on in Iran at the moment and my ~participation~ in them; and my 4th response basically summed up why I wanted to go to NYU. My father went to CUNY after immigrating to the US, and I wrote about his stories in NYC and Iran, and how I was captivated by them. Basically I said that going to NYU to study middle eastern studies was the best way to experience “my two favorite worlds”. My main essay was also about Iran and my visits there and how I want to educate people in the future regarding my country.</p>
<p>My ECS: 400 hrs of volunteer service including 160 hr in a cancer research lab; graphics editor of school paper (won a few awards for my art/design); secretary of BETA and poli sci club; key club; heavy senior schedule. I also wrote about how I self-published a monthly newsletter for my local hospital. And I think my teacher reccomandation was pretty good since she LOVED me and had several relatives that went to NYU (she lived in NY for awhile as well)</p>
<p>I literally submitted my application against my mom’s pleas and like an hour before the deadline. I wanted to apply not because I planned to attend; I applied because I just wanted NYU to be aware of who I was…Even though I’m not going (I’m going to University of Florida ) I still plan to go to NYU for grad school/transfer.</p>
<p>My D received the acceptance to LSP yesterday but was disappointed not to be accepted to CAS. While her SAT’s are not outstanding (2030; 2160 superscore) her is GPA 3.91(uw)/4.72 (w) out of 4.72 which she thought were more than average as others have implied the reason for her rejection from NYU CAS.</p>
<p>I told her not to look at it like a rejection but NYU’s interest to accept/keep a student for which they did not have a seat in the student’s first choice. I guess I will always be the glass is half-full type of person. She wanted to throw the materials away but I told her to keep them to read later. To note - she opened/read the materials around 11:00 pm after a long day of school and dance and prior to the start of a long night of homework. I still think it may be a good match as she loves NYC and has a strong interest to study abroad.</p>
<p>Acceptance to NYU LSP and UW-Madions; still waiting on UNC-CH; Wake Forest and FSU.</p>
<p>NCDance Mom; encourage your daughter to visit the schools she was accepted to if possible at all and that will help her decide. My daughter was lukewarm at first about the LSP program but after sitting in on a class and visiting most of her other options, she decided it was her best opportunity. She really likes the small LSP classes. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>plum1–How did your D get to sit in on a LSP class? Did she attend one of the on campus info sessions? We’d like to attend one, but they’re midweek and we’re in CA. Do you think they are worthwhile?</p>
<p>sweetpetite - yes we attended an info session, it was worth it. We are on the east coast so it was easier, but we did fly to a few other schools around the country to compare. If you can, attend an info session, but also just ask one of the liberal studies admins if during the day of your info session, or at any other time, you can choose a random LSP class to attend. The NYU people gave my daughter a list of classes she could sit in on, she chose one, introduced herself to the professor at the beginning, and sat in the session. (the profs are used to this) Afterwards, she talked to several of the kids in the class to see what they thought of the program.</p>
<p>Actually, I encouraged her to sit in on a class on every college she was seriously considering. You learn alot about the quality of the program and the kind of students attending. Its always possible you can get a dud class, but it will give you a better sense of the school. (had the students done the reading? were they engaged in discussion or asleep? that kind of thing). Its also a good idea if you can to have a meal in a campus dining hall and encourage your student to strike up random conversations with the students. Also very helpful in seeing if your s/d is comfortable at a given school and to judge how friendly/happy the students were. Helps to give a picture beyond the packaged sessions. My daughter was comfortable doing this; I also would chat with students. Most of the time they were glad to talk to me and a “prospie.”</p>
<p>plum1 - thank you for all the insight as well as suggestions for college visits. She is feeling better about acceptance to LSP. The sting of the rejection to CAS was just that - a sting. She is very interested studying abroad and Florence, Italy has always been a place of interest. So, the possibility of studying abroad her first year via LSP is something she is considering. Everything depends on the remaining schools. This is our first and only to go through the college experience so we have a lot to learn. We are going to use your strategy on college visits to hopefully gain a better feel of each campus.</p>
<p>You’re welcome DanceMom. After 3 college visit go rounds with 3 different kids, lol, I have learned the hard way that the packaged college info sessions and tours are only part of the picture. (tho they are interesting too in their own way). The more you can soak up the atmosphere at each college and see what kind of kids go there, the happier the chances you have for making a good match, tho no guarantees! Since I was footing a good part of the bill, I really insisted on those visits, and even overnights for accepted students if possible. One of the schools my daughter was interested in too was UWisc-Madison, a very different atmosphere than NYU! Good luck on your search, its fun (looking back). The one thing I can say is that the LSP kids are fully integrated into the NYU scene. My 3 kids each ended up at very different colleges (an Ivy, a women’s college, and NYU), but it all worked out in the end. Each good in its own way.</p>
<p>I was recently accepted into LSP, and I’m still slightly confused. I asked a few questions in another thread, but here seems more appropriate. </p>
<p>1) I responded to the acceptance offer for LSP online immediately after I read the letter. Does this mean I’m officially into the program, or do I have to wait until April 1st to find out?</p>
<p>2) Is the acceptance of this offer to LSP binding?? I heard it was not, but I read somewhere that it is!</p>
<p>3) I chose the NYC campus (I’m really not interested in studying abroad my freshman year), is this where I definitely will be studying or am I at risk of being placed in the abroad campuses?</p>
<p>4) Does CAS, Stern and other NYU students in the actual colleges get priority on housing over LSP students?</p>
<p>Any answers are soo much appreciated! Honestly, after reading about LSP in this thread and other places I have become very excited about the program.</p>
<p>Hello everyone!!!
I have some questions…I got rejected from CAS but into LSP and I’ve been killing myself with so many questions… I would appreciate it sooooo much if someone helped me out here:
Do LSP students get any scholarships or financial aid from NYU at all? besides need-based?
How do other NYU students treat LSP students? Can LSP students still be friends with CAS students?
Do NYU students dorm within schools? Like are CAS students in one section, LSP in another, Stern in another, Tisch in another, etc.?
Who in this thread has an estimated EFC of around 3,000-4,000$? How much do you expect to get from NYU with this EFC and with average scores (i got 3.5/1950—1300 without writing) as an LSP-er (if it matters)?</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Yes</p></li>
<li><p>This is college, not kindergarten. People make friends based on personality and no one gives a crap what program you’re in; people generally have friends from various schools</p></li>
<li><p>No, they don’t segregate by school</p></li>
<li><p>Can’t answer this one, sorry - but calling the financial aid office would help.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Hi guys, I applied to Stern RD…and NYU just told me that they have just received all materials needed…do I still have a chance of being accepted in LSP?</p>
) I still plan to go to NYU for grad school/transfer.</p>