Pleas help a helpless incoming LSP freshman out!

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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<p>So I'm enrolling in classes right now and I have absolutely no idea what I am doing.</p>

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<li><p>Do I sign up for 4 classes for the fall semester? (Social Foundation, Cultural Foundation, Writing, and 1 elective?)</p></li>
<li><p>Can I take any of the MAP courses while I'm in LSP? </p></li>
<li><p>If I take the Life Sciences course in LSP, will that satisfy my Natural Science I requirement for graduation?</p></li>
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<p>I'm pretty sure I'm just like any other freshman, having so many questions.</p>

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<p>Here is a link that should answer most of your questions:</p>

<p><a href=“Arts & Science”>Arts & Science;

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<p>@CASmom - Thanks for that link. My daughter will be entering LSP this fall as a freshman. She was allowed to register starting on June 4th, but I don’t think we got that mailing or link prior to that, so we had to figure it out on our own. It seemed odd that we got so little guidance. Do you know if that was mailed to students in hard copy, or just a link was sent? Thanks!</p>

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<p>@BrooklynGuy: I have no idea what was sent to the incoming LSP students but I found that link by navigating through the NYU website by clicking on “Academics”, then “Undergraduate Education”, then “Liberal Studies”, then " The Core Program". My daughter graduated from NYU CAS in 2010 and the single most important piece of advice I can pass along to current students and parents is to explore, no, make that study, the NYU website. Yes, I know it’s huge and seems like an impenetrable maze at first, but if you will spend the time now learning how to navigate it you will find that virtually everything you need to know is on there somewhere. Knowing how to quickly find the information you need will save vast amounts of time, aggravation, and possibly even money. I know for a fact that the time I invested in learning the CAS, registrar, bursar, housing and ALBERT sections of the website kept my daughter from making a couple of potentially expensive course selection mistakes and from missing an important deadline or two. I know that there are those who might call that being over-involved, or helicoptering, but at NYU prices scheduling mistakes and missed deadlines are just too costly to shrug off. By the time my daughter arrived for Welcome Week (do they still have that?) we both knew the NYU website inside out. It worked for us—she graduated in three years. YMMV.</p>