<p>Much like the OP, I also find LSP to be a pretty good program. After researching the program extensively, it appears that the only major negative is that there is less freedom in a student’s choice of classes for the first year or so. However, the small class sizes makes it very easy to interact with other classmates, as well as to interact with professors. I know a lot of kids at NYU who were accepted to the LSP program and absolutely loved it. A lot of them told me that they actually used their LSP professors over their CAS professors for recommendations for grad school.</p>
<p>I think that the stigma of LSP comes from when the program first started, however it is obvious that the program has undergone multiple changes and has evolved into a pretty decent program overall. The program is NOT necessarily for people with “below average scores”, as you can see from many of the acceptance posts. People with SATs of 2000+ have been LSPed, while people with lower scores (or similar scores) have been accepted to CAS.</p>
<p>LSP is NYU’s second largest incoming class (or so I’ve heard) and no one is going to look down on you for being in LSP! This is college…no one really cares what you’re majoring in or what college you’re part of. And if a person really looks down upon someone for being in LSP…well then…that’s just pathetic and I wouldn’t want to be friends with them anyway…</p>