What are your schedules (if you are ok sharing)?

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<p>I'm looking for the schedules of CAS and LSP students. Can you:</p>

<ol>
<li>List your classes for each semester</li>
<li>Say what program you are in (CAS or LSP)</li>
<li>Say what year you are </li>
<li>Specify if the class is part of the core (just write "core" in parenthesis after that class)</li>
<li>Say what classes go towards your major</li>
</ol>

<p>The reason I'm asking is because I got into LSP. I hear that LSP makes it hard to take classes you want and to do a double major. In order to help my decision, I am planning every course I would take in my 4 years at NYU (I'm doing it for different potential majors and I realize that my preferences will change in college, but this is just a preliminary to help me decide if I want to attend). I would like to know what LSP students take (for obvious reasons) and what CAS students take (to compare with LSP in order to see how much I'm actually missing out on).</p>

<p>If you think its an invasion of privacy to post your schedule, you can simply use broad aliases (Like, bio would be BIO 1 (core), maybe molecular bio would just be BIO 2 (major), or whatever) </p>

<p>Thanks. Please be as quick as possible. I have to decide soon. =)</p>

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<p>Shadowzoid, You have to check into the matter of AP credits and the ones that NYU LSP will accept. I will dig up the website for you about AP credits NYU will accept, if you want.</p>

<p>Sonny had 24 AP credits accepted. If he had taken the two AP exams he could have taken after completing the AP courses senior year in high school, he could have gotten a whole year’s credit (32) from NYU. But sonny does not want to graduate early, so the AP credits give him more flexibility and a lighter load freshman year as he adjusts and also leaves time to absorb the “goodies” provided by NYC living. </p>

<p>So, sonny actually took a relatively easy schedule because he wants to do other things outside of school, primarily music. He is thinking pre-law, with history or East Asian Studies major right now.</p>

<p>Fall Semester Freshman Year:</p>

<p>1) Texts and Ideas - 4 credits (MAP requirement)
2) Chinese I - 4 credits (the killer course for him because he was with native-speaking Chinese students) (MAP Foreign Language requirement, first of two years required; sonny could have exempted out of this requirement by taking the AP French exam but he chose not to).
3) Freshman Honors Seminar - 4 credits
4) Music Class from Tisch Open Arts Curriculum - 2 credits
5) MLK Scholar Seminar - 0 credit but weekly meeting</p>

<p>Spring Semester Freshman Year:</p>

<p>1) Writing the Essay - 4 credits (MAP requirement)
2) Chinese I - 4 credits (MAP Foreign Language requirement, cont.)
3) Japanese History course, not sure which one (4 credits)
4) Music Theory (2 credits)
5) Music Course, Private Lesson in Vocal Training (2 credits)
6) MLK Scholar Weekly Seminar - 0 credit</p>

<p>Mock Trial Team Member and Music, Music, Music - ECs</p>

<p>Sonny had no musical training background before entering NYU. He loves music. Which he takes fairly seriously. Maybe making a little side money from this later on.</p>

<p>Hope this helps you, but remember sonny has ha a “fairly” easygoing schedule due to his 24 AP credits (helps to spread the requirements out more).</p>

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<p>It looks like he is in Tisch. Is that true? Also, AP is pretty worthless to me, which sucks cause I took a lot. The LSP classes don’t take AP</p>

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<p>No, sonny is in CAS. I thought he should transfer to Tisch, but he wants to do both academic (pre-law) and more “artsy/ musical” things. I am sure his schedule will get more “academic” after this first year.</p>

<p>Wow, LSP does not accept any AP credits at all? I did not know that and that seems unfair to me.</p>

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<p>Its basically a bullsh**t program they made so they can accept more kids and get more money. Its just a rigid course of obscure-sounding classes that don’t correspond to any APs</p>

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<p>shadow,</p>

<p>Sorry about the AP credit news (to me). Did you read that article based on reviews by LSP students in WSN 11/10? It seemed that some went kicking into the program, but the majority interviewed indicated they really benefited from the curriculum more than they thought? Though the AP credit part does not sound right, because most colleges accept AP credit for their incoming freshmen. Not all accept the exact same AP courses, but at least some, if you score a 4 or 5. (Some schools even with 3s, but not NYU.)</p>

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<p>Hey Evolving,</p>

<p>I’m planning on taking a Chinese language course, so I was wondering if you could elaborate a bit on your son’s experience in it? Did he find the course really difficult? Thanks!</p>

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<p>veggiestop,</p>

<p>It is a hard language to learn from scratch with no background. My son is efficient with his studies (this has been the case throughout H.S.), but long hours of study, 3-5 hours a day for several days or more a week was not uncommon for this one language class. Even so, he struggled with the quizzes. They put him in a heritage class, which was not the right placement for him. </p>

<p>Last summer, before school started, I argued on his behalf after he tried to unsuccessfully straighten it out himself through the advisor and faculty. I was told there was not much difference between the two and urged to let him try out the heritage class. That is not true. Much more writing of characters and then Chinese speaking students may be praised for knowing characters not learned in class. So if you do not have any Chinese language background, make sure you get into the non-heritage Chinese class.</p>

<p>To be honest, I felt bad when he was studying over the Thanksgiving weekend, writing pages and pages of characters and telling me he had to keep the pace up or he would not complete the assigned chapters in time. Grading was not easy since he was likely competing with students who had some Chinese language background.</p>

<p>The good thing is he did learn a lot and his pronunciation of Chinese words and speaking showed very good progress. However, there is no doubt the language is hard and is time-intensive. He plans to go to Shanghai for study abroad, so it will be useful for him.</p>

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<p>Please keep this thread confined to collecting schedules. I need them.</p>

<p>Also, I’ve taken Chinese when I lived in Asia (I’m not Asian), The vocab is very hard, but the grammar is nothing. Have you been to a Chinese restaurant where chinese people talk in a direct manner? That’s exactly the Chinese grammar; just say directly what you want. The vocab, however, is hard</p>

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<p>Right, sorry shadowzoid!</p>

<p>Thanks to both of you for the info. I wasn’t aware of a heritage and a non-heritage class, so this is good to know. I appreciate the help.</p>

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<p>bump
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<p>shadowzoid,</p>

<p>AP credits or college credits (up to 32 total) are accepted for LSP students but they do not exempt you from the first two years of LSP core courses for the most part.</p>

<p>However, I thought you meant NO AP credits are accepted by NYU for LSP students at all (that was my interpretation of what you said upthread) and that is not true. I want to correct my “misinterpretation” and maybe yours as well (???).</p>

<p>Take a look at this link:</p>

<p>[Advance</a> Standing](<a href=“Arts & Science”>Arts & Science)</p>

<p>Also, this:</p>

<p><a href=“http://cas.nyu.edu/object/bulletin1012.ug.admission#APEQU[/url]”>http://cas.nyu.edu/object/bulletin1012.ug.admission#APEQU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>shadowzoid, I noticed no one responded with their schedules except for my sonny’s CAS schedule.</p>

<p>Just in case you missed the older thread with useful responses from Alix2012, I am sharing a concise Post (#2) of hers from the following thread that may answer your questions about LSP at NYU:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/824180-lsp-pre-med.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/824180-lsp-pre-med.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Just please do not PM Alix2012 as she indicated she is no longer really active in this forum.</p>