<p>lmao, I really had to laugh at oneguy’s comment (to be honest quite a few people have that opinion…)
That said, how does Nuclear’s math check out?</p>
<p>“LSP is a program where many students (over 2000) are offered admission into.
LSP is a program where less than 5% of the applicants applying to NYU are given admission.”</p>
<p>Right after looking at that I realize what I mean – I’d rather know how many of applicants who actually receive admission (into, say, CAS) are receiving admission into LSP. After all the way those stats are presented can be twisted really easy. In 2008 there were nearly 37k applicants, and let’s say that 2,000 of those were offered admission to Stern. You’d be able to say that only 5.4% of the applicants were offered admission there. But Stern is a school you directly apply to, LSP is where you’re thrown in, sometimes seemingly regardless of how good your stats are. … yeah I don’t think I explained myself properly but oh well.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’d do LSP, to be honest. You’re forced into taking certain courses for 2 years that can inhibit your ability to complete your major on time as well as your ability to take classes you actually want to take. I have absolutely nothing against the people [placed] in it – I have no doubt they are very smart people capable of great things (I know people who were placed in LSP and decided to go elsewhere, and by god I don’t hang around with dumbnuts either!), just that the program itself seems a rather poor way of accepting more students than perhaps would have been possible without it.</p>