NYU Liberal Studies Program vs. Rutgers SAS

Natrawr
Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:46:41 +0000

Hello!
So I applied to NYU’s CAS and as seen from the title, i was put into the liberal studies program. I just have a couple of questions. A lot of people are saying that the LSP is more like a high school setting (where you don’t get a lot of freedom). Well, for my freshman year, I was offered admissions in Paris. Does anyone have any comments on the global liberal studies program?

Anyway, well I want to major in French but would it be worth it to go into lsp and then transfer over into CAS (some people said that if you’re in LSP, you don’t start working on your major until junior year and that might be a lot to handle). Is anyone a french major?

Whereas if I go to Rutgers, the tuition is so much cheaper (the tuition for my first year since I’d be in paris for NYU would be 59k and nyu is paying about half of that. the other half, near 27k, i’d need to take out in loan which would be the federal perkins loan etc.) and their language program is pretty good as well.

or I was thinking in perhaps going to rutgers for my first 2 years and then transferring over into nyu? (so that perhaps i can start right into CAS and not in LSP).

(I know others have said that nyu isn’t really worth it unless you’re going to stern just because it’s so expensive…=/ but hopefully someone can help me!)