@seeniebeenie Really? I was talking with my friend who currently ATTENDS NYU about this. I told you, I don’t necessarily think that you are dumb since that is a very harsh term that can only be used after you personally talked to someone and worked with him/her enough to say that, but if you were “a better applicant” in the eyes of the NYU admissions officers, then don’t you think you would have got into your first choice? My whole essay was on my great sense of global issues and the fact that I have been in touch with the Chinese market even directly with my internship. My common app essay is in many ways about being global too, heck I also had president of MUN to add to global awareness. About 1 month ago or so in the ED II thread I even asked if there was you’d get placed in LSP because you are so “global” even though you have amazing stats. My conclusion after getting into CAS? No, that is not the case. Looking at my school alone from this year and the past few years, all the kids accepted to LSP were less qualified on paper in all aspects than kids accepted to CAS, then CAS less qualified on paper in all aspects than kids accepted to Stern. To clarify, overall I think LSP students were lacking in some way in their application(looking at previous threads and my own experience with my classmates) although that is not the case for all LSP students and similarly all CAS/Stern students in the opposing manner since the college process itself is such a crapshoot.