<p>So my stats are pretty good, but not totally great:
GPA: 3.756 (weighted on a 4.0 scale. my school doesn't do unweighted)
SAT composite: 1900
SAT math: 550
SAT CR: 620
SAT writing: 730</p>
<p>So as I'm sure most of you know, NYU is allowing prospective students to apply directly to LSP for the first time this year. For me, CAS or Gallatin seem like kind of a long shot at this point. Plus, I feel like going from a tiny high school (my graduating class is 36 people) to a huge university would be pretty overwhelming. I'm also not entirely sure what I would want my major to be, and would be very happy to work with academic advisors. </p>
<p>My essays are pretty great (not to brag by any means, it's just that writing is my strong suit). And based off of my stats, do you think I could get into LSP? Any feedback is so appreciated!</p>
<p>They allowed people to apply directly to LSP starting last year, I think. </p>
<p>I honestly have no damn idea how we end up in LSP. I got deferred into it because I checked that box that said they could place me in another school if they saw fit (aka, place you into LSP). </p>
<p>I’m not sure I understand what you mean by weighted on a 4.0 scale. NYU is gonna use your unweighted GPA, I think, because different places weigh courses and stuff differently.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you’re fine, SAT wise. Somewhere around where I was. </p>
<p>I think as far as the academic stuff goes, it’d make sense that you be able to get in. But you never know what the admissions people are looking for from year to year really. </p>
<p>Yeah, the GPA thing makes absolutely no sense to me either. All I know is that the only thing available on my transcript is a 3.756 GPA out of 4.0. </p>
<p>And thank you guys so much for the feedback :)</p>
<p>depending on your high school your weighted gpa is regular gpa, but each ap class is +1, OR each ap & honors is +1 (or at some schools honors is weighted differently, like +.5)</p>
<p>so, for example:
if you have a ‘b’ in an ap class, that’s usually a 3.0 on a 4 point scale. if it’s weighted, it’ll be a 4.0 on a 4-point scale. </p>
<p>if your school doesn’t put unweighted on the transcript, NYU will just re-calculate your gpa. so for chancing purposes, how many ap/honors classes have you taken?</p>
<p>I asked my guidance counselor about that actually. She said seeing as though its already on a 4.0 scale, they’ll take it because you can’t get higher than the standard unweighted GPA (but she could be wrong. I’ll have to see what the weight is for AP). What I don’t understand is how a weighted GPA could be on a 4.0 scale seeing as though you can have more than 4 points contributed if its weighted.</p>
<p>Ok yeah. That makes sense. But I’m wondering if that will be noted on my transcript. And if that’s the case, will nyu really recalculate my GPA?</p>
<p>I think you definitely have a chance. Talk a lot about how you are really interested in studying all kinds of things in your essays, haha. Honestly I don’t think there are set guidelines on who gets to get into LSP or not, but my stats were about the same so I think you’re fine. I don’t think graduate school is relevant to undergrad (with the legacy part), so I don’t think that would help.</p>
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