NYU and GSP..confused?

Forbiddendonut99
Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:34:48 +0000

You aren’t binded to the ED agreement when they first offer you to enter CAS through LSP. Instead, you are given about three weeks to determine if you can afford NYU and if LSP is something you actually want to do. Then, if you accept the LSP offer, you are binded again. You have to cancel your other applications and offers once you accept.

Students that excel in smaller classrooms/more liberal art oriented curriculums are selected from the application pool to enter LSP. So, if you don’t see a reason for them to select you for the program, then you will either get rejected or accepted to CAS. Statistically speaking, CAS has ~29% acceptance rate. 10% of the remaining 71% are placed into LSP (~7.1%), and the final 63.9% are rejected.

Contrary to what you may hear, LSP is neither better nor worse than directly going into CAS. It’s just there to A) increase the amount of students at NYU without raising the average class size and B) give students who excel at much smaller class sizes (private/homeschool) a place to be. It’s up to the individual student to decide if the environment will help them or not.