<p>ya in the booklet in my lsp acceptace package it said there were like 50 kids who go to Paris so I doubt it'll be a problem.</p>
<p>I come from another country, where the educational system is totally different from that in the US, so please excuse me if I am a little ignorant of some things.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that both CAS and LSP students complete 128 credits during their first 2 years in college & need another 128 credits to graduate. Why is it more difficult to double major if you're an LSP student, considering that you are guaranteed a spot at the original college you applied to after you complete the first two years in the LSP?
I would like to double major in International Relations and Journalism and this worries me.</p>
<p>unareina - it is more difficult because LSP has more required courses than CAS. Soph year my CAS friends don't have anymore requirements, but I still do. So it's a little harder just cause you have more restrictions.</p>
<p>Don't worry about IR and Journalism. All Journalism students are required to double major, and NYU makes this very easy, because Journalism doesn't require many classes at all. You'll definitely be able to double in IR/Journalism easily and also fulfill your requirements (assuming you get into IR - it's an Honors major, you must apply).</p>
<p>Hi Molly,
I just got accepted into LSP as well.
I was wondering what GE courses do people who are accepted into CAS have to take? how are those courses different than the ones we have to take in LSP? People in CAS also have to take GE courses the first two years right? If they also have to take GE courses, then is the one main difference between CAS and LSP is just that people in LSP have to take assigned courses while people in CAS can choose their own courses? And one last question, on the letter I got, it says that I got to go to one of the international site my freshman year; is it possible for me to choose to go the second year instead?
Sorry I have so many questions.
Thanks!</p>
<p>steffuny, here's what i've basically heard about required classes. All LSP/CAS students must finish the requirements by end of Soph year.
LSP required courses for 2009 CAS Students:
Writing I and II
Cultural Foundations I, II, and III
Social Foundations I, II, and III
Science class - you choose
Math class - you take a placement test and choose
World Cultures class - you choose
Topics in Modern Society Seminar - you choose, a lot of awesome options for this one
Topic in Modern Culture Seminar - you choose, also lots of options</p>
<p>CAS Requirements:
Writing the Essay I and II
Conversations of the West
Foreign Language - you choose
Foundations of Contemporary Culture
Math class - placement test and choose
Science class - you choose
1 Social Science - you choose
1 Arts course - you choose
Foreign language - placement test and you choose</p>
<p>Students in both schools get to pick classes, but LSP has more requirements; keep in mind once you go into CAS you have to do the Foreign Language requirement as well. LSP gets fewer choices frosh year, electives are more limited, but Soph year a lot of students take CAS classes as they start focusing on their major more. </p>
<p>If the letter says you must choose an international site, they're not going to let you stay in NYC the first year, sorry...I don't know why, but they don't offer everyone the NY option. It will tell you in your letter whether they placed you in NY (in which case you can also do an international site) or if they're limiting you to an abroad location.</p>
<p>Thank you so much Molly!
Also, why is it important to take elective? what are the advantages?
Besides the fact that LSP people have to take more GE courses,
what do you think are the cons of being in LSP?
Do you like being in LSP?</p>
<p>Steff - electives are any classes not required for your major or required by the school. I believe you need 128 credits to graduate NYU. Most classes are 4 credits, so if you take 4 classes per semester, for 2 semesters a year, for 4 years, you'll have the exact amount (you can take more than 4 a semester, or in the summer if you want extra credits). Not sure what your major is, but most majors leave room for electives, so you can take all the required LSP classes, plus all required classes for your major, and still have room left over to take whatever you want.</p>
<p>I mentioned the cons in my first post - more requirements, less freedom, not many lecture classes if you prefer those. This is mostly frosh year since I know Soph year you get a lot of freedom and will be taking CAS classes. </p>
<p>Yep I like LSP. I like the smaller classes so I actually get to know my prof, I like being able to take classes in CAS as well. As for the classes themselves, I've enjoyed the ones relating to my major more, I personally hate Cultural Foundations, but I know people who love it. A lot of it depends on the Professor and how they teach the course.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if this question has been answered before, but</p>
<p>Can applicants to Stern be allocated to LSP?</p>
<p>alustrial,</p>
<p>No Stern Applicants are no longer placed in LSP. They stopped a few years ago, I believe.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that you could take summer classes before your sophomore year to get out of LSP early. Is this true?</p>
<p>Hey molly4190</p>
<p>All those requirements need to be met by LSP students by the end of sophomore year? That means 13 required classes with only 16 spaces…so only 3 elective credits your entire first two years? I really really really want to take foreign languages, but if the requirements are this stringent, I don’t think I’ll be able to. Why’d they change it?</p>
<p>Edit: Above you say that you can take more than four courses per semester. At the open house, the guy in charge of LSP said that they typically don’t let you do that. Is this true? A fifth course would really open up my options.</p>
<p>So what’s this I hear about LSPers getting e-mails admitting them to the schools they originally applied to? Any info from the inside you care to share?</p>
<p>nastynate0315</p>
<p>Last week, NYU pulled some kids who had accepted their offer to LSP and asked if they wanted to go to the schools to which they originally applied instead. Pretty much to fill open spaces. It’s sort of like getting accepted off the waitlist.</p>
<p>ikatfabric said said it, but i dont think you can consider it a waitlist. There is already a waitlist for CAS students.</p>
<p>I consider it that since we were interested in NYU and it had a few open seats, we got in!!!</p>
<p>I am happy.</p>
<p>Well, no, it’s not a waitlist. But it’s comparable to one in the sense that you’re being offered a spot in the place your originally wanted to be later in May. So you kind of had to wait to hear back. The main difference from the actual waiting list is that those of us who weren’t offered spots in CAS or Steinhardt still get to go to NYU through LSP. Woot. :D</p>
<p>woop it is!!!</p>
<p>I really hope this question wasn’t answered above me, cause I know how annoying that is, but I don’t have much time on the computer so here it is:
How low can we LSP students go in our grades now as second semester seniors?
The senioritis…is closing in pretty badly…and I just wanted to make sure everything would be okay. Is a C okay? Like in AP English? 
Ahhhhh!!!
thanks guys!</p>
<p>Got into LSP at the NYC campus and tried registering for classes (the basic required ones) but kind of got overwhelmed by all the options.
Molly4190 do you have any suggestions for professors/buildings?</p>
<p>@appleingrapple</p>
<p>I don’t have suggestions for profs, but you can use this map to see where all the buildings are: [New</a> York University > About NYU > Interactive Campus Map](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/about/virtual.html]New”>http://www.nyu.edu/about/virtual.html)</p>
<p>Basically, the undergrad class buildings that are all clustered together are Silver/Waverly/Brown (this is mostly the main CAS building), Tisch Hall (the Stern building), 25 West 4th (25W4: classrooms are in the basement), 19 West 4th (19W4), Meyer Hall (where a lot of the labs are), 715-721 Broadway (the main Tisch building), the Education Building (Steinhardt), and Bobst Library (where you may have your WTE class). The slight outliers are 194 Mercer Street (two blocks south of West 4th) and 145 Fourth Avenue (about 10 blocks north and four blocks (five if you’re crossing Lafayette, two if you are using 9th Street or above) east of West 4th and University, the southeast corner of WSP). Basically, 15 minutes should be enough time to get from any of the main campus buildings to the other. As for the outliers, you could walk there in 15 minutes if you aren’t running between classes, but taking, say, a class in Silver from 9:30-10:45 then following it up with a class in 194 Mercer from 11-12:15 means you will probably be late on account of the rush hour crush in Silver.</p>
<p>Hello freshmen, I’m an LSP student, Welcome Week leader, Pre-Med, Neural Science major, commuter. If you have questions about any of that stuff (pre-med or commuting or something) you can send me a message or something.</p>
<p>Kim91 - I’m not sure if LSP classes are offered over the summer, but you could take CAS classes. I think you have to spend at least 3 semesters in the program, and if you have AP 4s or 5s, remember to send those in for credits! I have enough AP’s to graduate 1 yr early if I wanted.</p>
<p>ikat - Yes, you need to finish by end of Soph yr, and I think it’s 12 required classes (Writing I/II, SF I/II/III CF I/II/III, 1 Global Culture, 3 Sci classes unless you’re preMed). So 4 elective classes. As a preMed LSP, I only had to do 9 LSP classes and the rest in CAS. You can take Foreign Language right away, freshmen year! Typically, NYU students take 4 classes (16-18 credits) a semester. Anymore than that and you must pay extra tuition, which I really don’t reccommend Freshmen year, or ever. :)</p>
<p>Chotam - don’t worry about it, unless you have a D or F in several classes, I think you’re fine. 
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<p>NYUdude - that’s awesome, congrats! I never heard of anything like this happening before.</p>
<p>Appleing - Basically any building is fine like nyu_times said, but remember when it’s 15 degrees out and there’s snow on the ground, you’ll want the next building to be close by. Try to pick buildings around the Square, like Waverly, Silver (they’re attached), Brown, all the West 4th St buildings, Mercer, Kimmel Skirball, etc. The only hassle I had was going from 19 West 4th to a Union Square building. You’ll become a fast walker!</p>