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<p>This^^ although NYU Poly is slated to merge with NYU soon.</p>
<p>OP, I mean, what is your gpa including ONLY cores? Not including driver’s ed, ceramics, gym, chorus, and some of the wacky mandatory things some districts insert. That can be very telling (adcoms will look at the transcript itself, but focusing on the solids.) And, with all the talk about engineering, you need math-sci to be among your strong suits.</p>
<p>My larger point is many folks tend to look at stats. Oh, his/her stats put her at school X. Good chance, go for it, why not? </p>
<p>Well, depending on the college, adcoms know their strengths, their program requirements, know their ongoing academic bar (despite that some classes are easier or silly,) and know what sort of kid- based on rigor, results, academic and EC breadth and depth, as well as how he expresses himself in the CA- has the best shot of fitting to that. Making it, succeeding, in and out of the classrooms and labs.</p>
<p>Many want to go to the best college they can get into. Often, you gain more by going for fit, not prestige.</p>