Nyu lsp

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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<p>No, most, if not all, students do not find LSP challenging. I have many friends in LSP and every single one of them, whether they like LSP or not, can admit that their classes are ridiculously easy and full of busy work. LSP professors also tend to be crappy because frankly LSP is a money-making scheme that was created to allow more students to be accepted into NYU without raising the CAS acceptance rate. This provides more tuition money for NYU to fund the NYU 2031 plan without making CAS too easy to get into. In other words, LSP doesn’t really have any academic merit of its own as a “school” or “transitional program” or whatever people want to call it.</p>

<p>HOWEVER, that isn’t to say that you shouldn’t join LSP. If 1) NYU is your dream school, 2) you can afford NYU with little to no loans, and 3) you are not a science, math, engineering, technology, etc. major, then LSP may be a good choice for you. Your degree will still say CAS. Yes, you’ll have to sit through two years of useless classes, but hey, at least your GPA will be higher than everyone else’s and if anything you can stay a fifth year to take extra classes if LSP scheduling disallowed you from taking the classes you wanted in the first two years. Plenty of LSP students stay for a fifth year in order to successfully double major and study abroad.</p>

<p>In summary: LSP sooooort of sucks, but if NYU is your dream school and all you got into was LSP, then it’s kind of a take-what-you-can-get situation.</p>

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<p>As for why you didn’t get into any other NYU school, please don’t feel bad about it! I know someone who was literally the valedictorian of her high school with a 2300 SAT score who didn’t get in, and she was admitted into Duke and other high-ranking schools. College admissions are sometimes complete BS and you probably just got unlucky. Or, and sorry if this sounds harsh, but NYU says it puts people in LSP if they think their writing skills aren’t good enough, so maybe your essay wasn’t as good as they thought it should be but they still thought you had promise.</p>