<p>I just graduated NYU this past spring, and I have a pretty good take on which schools are the easiest to get into. If I had to name one, it would be SCPS, which stands for “The School of Continuing and Professional Studies.” It’s technically a graduate school, but they have those two majors allocated for undergraduates - Sports and Leisure Studies and Hotel Management. If you want to apply to SCPS and then skip over to CAS while you are an NYU student, it is possible. I know someone who transfered from SCPS to CAS, and I think that the decision depended on his grades he received in college. I am pretty sure he said that it wasn’t that difficult. Steinhardt is definitely one of the easier schools to get into, as long as it doesn’t require an audition (then, obviously, a large part of the decision would depend on your audition). GSP - which by the way was just renamed LSP, (Liberal Studies Program) is also easier than CAS to get into. People can apply to any undergraduate school at NYU and then get “selected” for LSP. I know students in LSP, and the majority applied to CAS, but there are many that are on “track” for Gallatin, Tisch, Stern, and I think others. The short version is that most kids in LSP are on the lower end of the acceptance pool, and tend to have an SAT/GPA that still fall within the range, but on average the statistics are lower than the typical CAS student. Not many students at NYU has the LSP thing down 100%…there is a rumor that people in LSP mostly pay full tuition and NYU uses it as a way to rake in more tuition money, but there is no way to confirm that - it’s just something that I have heard and also personally noticed. Also, this is just my personal guess, but I do not think that LSP students are included in the student statistics of NYU since in fine print it says that the student statistics reflect four year undergraduate programs, and LSP is technically a two year associates degree program with a guaranteed transfer junior year into the school that you originally applied to (as long as you maintain a 3.0 GPA and a few other requirements). After at least having, if I had to say a number, something like an 1870 and a 3.55 out of high school (just an estimation based on students I have talked to that were in LSP) the way they choose LSP kids is a little random and might have to do with how you convey yourself as a student. I think it has something to do with liking small class sizes, portraying yourself as a well rounded liberal arts loving student, and someone who has a decent amount of tuition money. </p>
<p>Gallatin - is hard to say whether or not its “easy” to get into. If I had to pin it against CAS, it might be a little easier, but Gallatin looks for students who stick out more, have really focused and driven interests, and I’m pretty sure they look at your out of school life more - such as if you play an instrument, clubs, leadership positions, etc. etc. </p>
<p>Nursing and Social Work are very small schools and I’m not too sure, but I heard that they are generally easier than CAS. Nursing used to be part of Steinhardt until they broke off into their own school. </p>
<p>Tisch and Stern are both pretty difficult to get into. Tisch is 50% portfolio, and 50% SAT/GPS, etc. Stern is a lot of very overachieving and highly competitive students who are graded on a curve and crunch numbers for many of their classes. </p>
<p>So, in summary, SCPS is the easiest, followed by Steinhardt (for majors such as Communications, etc. that do not require and audition), and then LSP. Social Work and Nursing are on the easier side, maybe around the level of LSP, but I do not know that much about them. And again, this assessment is a collection of rumors I’ve heard throughout my years as a student, my personal experiences with the students, and general information that the staff tells us. CAS is one of the more difficult schools, and Tisch and Stern are the hardest.</p>