Second Option to Computer Science

Stern is highly competitive, they don’t want to be anyone’s second choice!

If you mean liberal studies (I don’t think there is a “liberal arts”?), that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me for someone interested in computer science. You can probably get there for the last two years if you take the right electives, but the program doesn’t sound at all of interest to a CS or business focus tbh - I think it’s much more aimed at humanities and social sciences students.
http://liberalstudies.nyu.edu/about/core-program.html

Is your student applying within CAS or Tandon, why not put one as first choice and the other as second? I’m no expert but I understand computer science is offered in both?