@barcodeIlIl My point is that you and your friends don’t know what you’re all talking about. There are people who apply directly into LSP because they think it will benefit them. LSP is way more than it’s stigma, and people like you talking about it doesn’t help. Just because you think you’re a New Yorker doesn’t mean you’re ready to be one. Get rid of that entitled know-it-all attitude before you move here full-time. Obviously, there are people in CAS who are better qualified than me; there always are better applicants than you. That doesn’t mean that I’m not “good enough” for NYU or that my program is redundant. There’s a saying that I think you could benefit from: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. I have yet to come across someone who views me as lesser than them or dumber because of my program, so maybe I’m just lucky and haven’t come across those people yet.