<p>SAT Score: 2000
GPA: 3.1 (End of Junior Year) Cumulatives: 2.8, 2.6, 3.0, 3.4, 3.1, 3.7 (Upward trend)
Class Rank - Top 33%
Competitive Public IB Diploma School
Ethnicity: Indian
Income: 200-300k+ per year</p>
<p>Course Rigor:
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Calculus BC
- AP Language and Composition
- AP Government
- IB Biology YR1
- IB Biology YR2
- IB Literature
- Honors Algebra II
- Honors Pre-Calc
- Honors English 9
- Honors English 10
- Honors World Studies
- Honors Biology</p>
<p>Regular Courses:
- Spanish (I-III) (Should I take a fourth year if I get an average grade?)
- US History
- Chemistry
- Economics</p>
<p>Electives Per Semester:
- Psychology (Senior Year)
- Debate
- Creative Writing
- Astronomy
- Health
- Gym
- Intro to Business (Senior Year)
- Psychology II (Senior Year)
- Ceramics (Senior Year)</p>
<p>Sports:
- Four years of Tennis. Three years on Junior Varsity with being captain one of those years. One year on Varsity</p>
<p>Extracurricular:
- Played on the Quizbowl team. Our team made it to states all four years.
- Was on the Debate team for three years. was on Varsity Debate for two of the three years.
- One Small Step program for two years. I was treasurer for one of the two years.
- Participated in the multi-cultural club for three years.
- Participated in Outdoors club for three years.
- Participated in Chess club for two years.
- Participated in Astronomy club for two years.</p>
<p>Community Service:
- 100 Hours Volunteered at the hospital</p>
<p>Job Work:
- 50 Hours in Restaurant Management</p>
<p>Letters:
Going to get letters from
- US History teacher (Loved me)
- AP Lang teacher (Liked me, thought I worked hard)
- Counselor (Liked me)
- Boston University International Politics Professor (Took summer course was a really good letter)
- Boston University Law Professor (Wrote an ok letter about me and how I was successful)</p>
<p>Um, yes definately lol. If not going past LSP. Your SAT scores are sub-par(ish), still very good though… so try and raise those a hundred points or so. </p>
<p>You should be good to go though. Just make sure you have a solid essay, because NYU places a lot of emphasis on that.</p>
<p>Wait what do you mean by not going past? I was planning on majoring in Biology after my two years of LSP.</p>
<p>… basically, hes sayin why are you aiming for lsp when you should be aiming to go straight into cas instead of two years of liber arts studies</p>
<p>Oh well, I thought that LSP would be the better decision for me. I think I would get rejected from CAS though. I might do the LSP pre-med program.</p>
<p>So do most people who apply for LSP get in? or as long as they have a good GPA or high test scores?</p>
<p>You do not apply for LSP… you are placed in LSP.</p>
<p>There are 2 primary things colleges care about: GPA and SAT. Your GPA is only a 3.1 and your SAT is only a 2000; The average LSP student has higher stats than that and the average CAS student has much higher grades. So I would say NYU is overall a reach school for you, but LSP is possible since everything else looks good.</p>
<p>There is no LSP pre-med program. Pre-med means you take some intro science courses in CAS; you’re free to do this in LSP but electives are limited. Like stohare2010 said, you don’t apply for LSP, you’re placed into it.</p>
<p>My advice is streamline your EC’s so they don’t read like a laundry list; instead of 7 different random clubs which you went to, having 2-3 activities you were dedicated to looks better. Try writing a “unique” essay, they seem to like that lol.</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>I really think you need to steamline your extracurriculars into a few things. I was involved in PLENTY of clubs throughout high school, probably over 15, but on my app, I only listed about 4-5 that I was REALLY dedicated to (participated every week or so, had an active leadership role at some point, etc). </p>
<p>Also, I got placed in LSP. My SATs are 2070, my unweighted GPA is 3.8, and my weighted GPA is about 3.94. I am in the top 15% of the class at a competitive public school. I had all honors and some AP classes in high school (AP English Lit, AP English Lang, AP US History, AP Euro History, AP US Gov’t, AP Psych). On the tests last year, I got all 4’s/5’s and am planning to do the same this year.</p>
<p>I originally applied to CAS, but got placed in LSP. From my understanding, LSP students are very strong applicants who usually have a single problem with numbers somewhere – for me, I think my “numbers problem” was probably a 77 in AP Chem sophomore year and/or an 82 in Honors Algebra II sophomore year. These grades stuck out from my all A’s/some B’s transcript. Like I said, the “problem” with LSP students is one, maybe two low numbers on their app. So, if you have average or low SAT scores AND a low GPA, it WILL be hard to even get into LSP. According to NYU Admissions, LSP is for liberal arts-minded students who are very unique and qualified to attend NYU, but usually had some minor flaws on their app.</p>
<p>Good luck with your application!</p>