Hey guys,
I just got accepted into NYU and was wondering how social life is there. I’ve been reading some pretty horrific things, especially about being a straight girl at NYU. Is it true that all the guys are gay? Also, is it true that a lot of people are stuck up? Lastly, Is the stigma against LSP true where people consider them to be dumb? Please let me know 
thanks guys
All guys are gay? I think the only place you’d find that to hold true would be a gay bar/club and even then, probably not everyone there is gay…
Straight guy here here :). Stigma is kinda true. I visited one of my friends at NYU last week and the general consensus is that Tisch and LSP are the dumber kids although Tisch kids are generally going into performing arts obviously. I personally wish that NYU would take out LSP since I don’t see any positive impact that it has on the school.
I wouldn’t necessarily call LSP kids dumber, but they essentially got rejected by their first pick school, so they are below CAS, Stern, etc kids in terms of how good their applications were. The whole college process is a crap shoot, but if you look at past official results threads, then you’ll notice that those who were accepted to LSP have lower stats than those accepted to the other schools bar Tisch.
Social life will be weird. My friend lives at third north and the walk was slightly long. The walk to washington square park from all of the better freshman dorms is somewhat long and it is in NYC, so you won’t be getting the calm campus feel and have an easy feeling of meeting new people since you won’t be able to tell if the people you are walking with are NYU students or not a lot of the time. There are still plenty of opportunities to meet people, but you should try to get that done in the first week when we’re all trying to get to know each other and find friends. We aren’t attending NYU for the traditional college experience so you shouldn’t expect the traditional college experience.
Ignore the above poster. He has no clue what he’s talking about, as visiting as an accepted student is completely different than actually attending NYU.
LSP and Tisch kids worked just as hard to get in. I was put into LSP not because of poor performance but because of my past experience with the IB program and global issues. My stats were great, definitely on par with kids accepted into CAS. LSP kids are great, thank you very much, and we bring a lot of positive impact to NYU.
Not all guys are gay, and not all girls are straight. There are plenty of straight/pan/bi guys ready and willing to hit on you in the street.
There are a lot of stuck up people, though, but that applies wherever you go. You have the kids who think they’re better than everyone else, the kids who are nice, and the kids that are just plain weird. I’ve met a lot of people from each category, if you will.
The thing about all the stereotypes you listed is just that: they’re all stereotypes. There are some truths to them, but stereotypes are exaggerated beyond belief.
@seeniebeenie Really? I was talking with my friend who currently ATTENDS NYU about this. I told you, I don’t necessarily think that you are dumb since that is a very harsh term that can only be used after you personally talked to someone and worked with him/her enough to say that, but if you were “a better applicant” in the eyes of the NYU admissions officers, then don’t you think you would have got into your first choice? My whole essay was on my great sense of global issues and the fact that I have been in touch with the Chinese market even directly with my internship. My common app essay is in many ways about being global too, heck I also had president of MUN to add to global awareness. About 1 month ago or so in the ED II thread I even asked if there was you’d get placed in LSP because you are so “global” even though you have amazing stats. My conclusion after getting into CAS? No, that is not the case. Looking at my school alone from this year and the past few years, all the kids accepted to LSP were less qualified on paper in all aspects than kids accepted to CAS, then CAS less qualified on paper in all aspects than kids accepted to Stern. To clarify, overall I think LSP students were lacking in some way in their application(looking at previous threads and my own experience with my classmates) although that is not the case for all LSP students and similarly all CAS/Stern students in the opposing manner since the college process itself is such a crapshoot.
@seeniebeenie Hey! Thanks your post helped a lot! I’m a little confused tho on how CAS and LSP/GSP differ? I was actually offered admissions into GSP as well as CAS however really dont know which one to choose. Would you mind telling me a bit about both, if you could? Also, which freshman res hall do u think is the best? Also when you first started school at NYU did u find it hard adjusting/making friends? Just trying to wrap my head around what im throwing myself into lol anything would be appreciated!!
@barcodeIlIl I think the reason she doesn’t believe people get to put into LSP because of poor performance and lacking in some way in their application is because she is in LSP herself. Nobody would ever call themselves dumb . So the best way to find answer for this to ask kids from other school
@barcodeIlIl That’s great that you and your friend can tell exactly how qualified every single student at NYU is. My roommate was accepted into Tisch with NO portfolio; she just wrote killer essays. Isn’t that “lacking in some way”? NYU’s admissions are not wholly focused on stats, even though everyone I know in LSP had amazing stats. I’m so glad that you know everything about my program after being accepted into CAS. If you come to New York with this attitude, you’re in for a surprise. The general rule when talking about the different schools is that you should stay in your lane. I could easily say that CAS Econ majors are people that aren’t smart enough to make it to Stern, but I wouldn’t because I don’t know anything really about CAS Econ or Stern. See how that works out?
@waveycrocket I’m confused as how you were offered admission to both? Also, were you put in the Core Program or the Global Liberal Studies Program? The two are different; LS Core is a two-year program after which you transfer into the school of your choice while GLS is a four-year program that you can transfer out of like any other school at NYU. I made a whole thread about housing [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/1862161-first-year-housing-2016-2017.html%5Dhere%5B/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/1862161-first-year-housing-2016-2017.html]here[/url], but I’m more than willing to talk more in-depth about the options with you. As for social life, I made friends with people on Facebook over the summer and they’ve become my best friends (post in the FB groups over the summer asking if anyone likes something you really like and start talking to them), and I joined a sorority at the very beginning of the fall semester, so I’ve had a great support network to fall back on. It’s a strange adjustment to get used to NYU/NYC, but you’ll figure it out after a while. Feel free to PM me!
@kker98 Yeah and that was my point, my friend quite literally called them “stupid” when I was talked to him about it. @waveycrocket asked about the stigma against LSP students, so i don’t think the views of another LSP would help as much as students from other schools. LSP will obviously face some negativity, that is a given. I don’t think most people if any at all who got accepted to their first choice school would say “I wish I would have got accepted by LSP instead”. This has only come up in conversation with two of my friends currently attending NYU(one Stern one CAS) so maybe I’m not the most qualified to comment on this, but then again, how many people on this thread are actual NYU students right now…Personally, I’ll base my opinion of you based on my first impression of you so LSP won’t matter unless you really are dumb.
@seeniebeenie So I need all 20,000+ applications of everyone in NYU right now to come to my own conclusion? Funny since I’ve been traveling to New York every week on and off for the past 2 years now so I don’t think I’ll be in for too much of a surprise.
You are right, I didn’t think I was smart enough to make it into stern. That is why I applied to CAS econ actually. Maybe I could have made it to stern, but I didn’t apply since I didn’t want to take a risk. Just about all the people I know who got in Stern are in fact smarter than me and have better applications, not all, but most. You are also correct about CAS econ in general being less qualified than Stern. Stern has a lower acceptance rate for a reason and attracts applicants that would otherwise go Ivy for a reason.
@barcodeIlIl My point is that you and your friends don’t know what you’re all talking about. There are people who apply directly into LSP because they think it will benefit them. LSP is way more than it’s stigma, and people like you talking about it doesn’t help. Just because you think you’re a New Yorker doesn’t mean you’re ready to be one. Get rid of that entitled know-it-all attitude before you move here full-time. Obviously, there are people in CAS who are better qualified than me; there always are better applicants than you. That doesn’t mean that I’m not “good enough” for NYU or that my program is redundant. There’s a saying that I think you could benefit from: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. I have yet to come across someone who views me as lesser than them or dumber because of my program, so maybe I’m just lucky and haven’t come across those people yet.
@seeniebeenie The people I talked to are NYU students as much as you are so i do believe that they knew what they were talking about as much as you know what you are talking about. But like I said, yes you will give off a different stigma just like CAS econ students will give off a different stigma from Stern finance students. I won’t think of you as dumber unless you do something to prove it since I know how crappy and inefficient the college admissions process is. Lets just end this here since I don’t want to get into an argument with another NYU student about something like this.
@barcodeIlIl They know what people like them have said. I don’t know of any CAS/Sternie with friends in LSP who genuinely believe in that stigma, so I’m going to guess that they actually don’t know what they’re talking about because if they did, they’d know that LSP kids are brilliant and that our program is amazing, just like everyone else at NYU. I will fight you on this because if you actually think that you can come into NYU with this horrible view of your fellow students, you need to fix it. Everyone here worked just as hard as you and your buddies to get in, so it helps no one if you say “yeah, the stigma is kinda true” before you’ve even moved in. You don’t want to get into an argument with another NYU student? You shouldn’t be so know-it-all about something you know nothing about.
@seeniebeenie Don’t you also have the know it all attitude if you are dismissing me and other current NYU freshman as completely wrong? I know for a fact that a lot of Stern kids worked much harder than me to get into Stern and similarly I worked much harder than the LSP ED II kid in my grade to get into CAS, this isn’t true for every case, but it is for most cases in my experience. You can continue to fight me, but this is my last reply to you. I hope to transfer to Stern(insult me all you want on how you think I have no chance) and for now I will think that Stern kids are for the most part more qualified than CAS econ kids and the same goes for CAS econ and LSP. I hope you know that everything you said about me being know it all and stuck up could also be applied to you. NYU has 20,000+ students and you probably haven’t even personally talked with more than 200. Like I said, do I really know nothing about this? I am speaking through the lens of NYU students that I know. You have no right to say that they know nothing about this since they have had similar experiences to you. If they know nothing about this, then why do you think you know everything about this? I won’t instantly have a negative stigma of you if you go to LSP unless you do something to prove it. Take me with a grain of salt if you want(which I assume you are doing) and so could @waveycrocket, but if you ask for advice on something, then you shouldn’t only be prepared for the positives.
I wanted to make a comment about how sad it is that kids rank the students attending NYU by school and call each other stupid over it, but then I realized the only one saying that is a high school student who doesn’t live in NYC and doesn’t go to NYU.
Whew.
OP, obviously not all guys at NYU are gay.
Hey guys. I’m wrong. I’ve realized the wrongs of my ways. LSP kids are just as if not more smart than CAS kids. I’m so sorry about confusion this may have caused for OP and anyone else. “Lastly, Is the stigma against LSP true where people consider them to be dumb?” Nope not at all. LSP is a peer to CAS and why should you even think to doubt that? You’ll be in CAS in 2 years anyways so they obviously wouldn’t let under qualified kids into the same school. We won’t know why you got placed in LSP, but we do know that it does not detract from you and it will be viewed equally as someone going to CAS just like CAS econ is in many ways a peer to Stern finance. Again, very sorry for the confusion and I hope we can cooperate in the future!
@barcodeIlIl @seeniebeenie
Dramatic!
Judging people merely bases on the schools they got into, Emm? Just too insightful?
What college admissions look at: GPA, SAT, ECs, Essays
Honestly i will say that i don’t do ECs at all because i don’t think that they deserve my time. Some people do ECs (mostly major related, career related, for example a few stern kids) in a significant way. Others? Wow, i don’t think so. ECs are done not to impress people or colleges, but for a genuine reason, a purpose (internal motivation). If the colleges didn’t grasp this notion? I am sorry, that school doesn’t worth my attending.
Well performance on SAT sometimes correlates with intelligence, vise versa. But such intelligence is so limited in its applicability. I assume that a small portion of stern kids can get extremely successful in their careers ahead, but others? Not really.
The lack of performance you guys talked about only reflects a college perspective, which is one with a flawed and biased nature. Partly the reason for such fix view of college admission comes from the American culture itself. So to judge a person based on LSP/STERN/CAS? Stupid enough. You can feel smug; that’s your choice. But don’t degrade or deny others’ potential or intrinsic qualities that can be 100 times greater than yours.
In Chinese we have a saying: 狗眼看人低
If you want straight guys, just go to Tandon in Brooklyn hahahaha… Smart and Straight xD
Anyways, yeah the stigma is true…people do think LSP girls are dumber because it has the highest acceptance rate at NYU. It is the easiest program to get into. Don’t worry about CAS kids though…they are equally dumb lol
However, most guys at WSq are gay though…
Someone who’s insanely smart and wants to do physics clearly won’t attend Stern; it’s a business school. Just because it has a higher quality applicant pool grade and score-wise doesn’t mean anyone’s smarter or dumber. Every school has different programs. People in LSP have different interests from other schools. Different does not mean worse.
Also, calling every guy gay in one of the largest universities in the world is a bit naïve, haha.
Hi. I go to NYU.
Going to be completely real, the LSP program is known to be a little less rigorous than the others because you don’t really have an individualized schedule till your sophomore or junior year. But honestly no one really caes. You’re just friends with everyone, regardless of what school they are in.
I’m a straight girl at NYU and there are plenty of straight guys. That part is just a myth, but it is kind of funny to perpetuate it, so I understand why it has lasted.