<p>Yes, NYU soon will have an official engineering school. The legal merger date will happen on January 1st, 2014. Here is a FAQ on how NYU Poly will soon become NYU school of engineering and what will happen as a result of the merger. Anyone interested in studying engineering at NYU, you will study at the Polytechnic School of Engineering. You MUST apply using NYU's application. As far as financial aid goes, you must file fafsa and CSS profile for NYU. Poly will continue to award scholarships and need based aid for anyone who qualify. I'm an undergraduate student here and I've been told that many of the NYU's department such as math, computer science and physics will take over Poly's. If you have any more questions, I can answer.</p>
<p>i do feel apart of NYU mainly because I do go to the main campus and use their facilities such as the bobst library, gym, dining halls etc. I also take classes at the main campus at CAS. You can minor at other NYU schools if you like. Sometimes, being at the Brooklyn campus makes me feel im only doing alot of heavy tech related things. NYU CUSP( grad school for urban engineering and sciences) is opening this fall right across from Poly’s building.</p>
<p>right now, they don’t have a free shuttle bus going back and forth between campuses but they are planning on that in the future :). So right now, there are trains on campus that do take you directly to the main campus. It’s $2.50 for one ride. I’m a commuter student so i use a unlimited metro card which is $112 for the whole month and you can use it as many times as you want. its roughly about 15-20 minutes at most between campuses by train.</p>
<p>Exactly. People need to understand Poly is a completely separate campus. That doesn’t change just because NYU bought it.<br>
Poly is a good school as it is. They want students to feel like they are engineering majors at NYU, and that’s not exactly the case. All this merger will do is boost NYU’s ego, and ultimately inflate Poly’s tuition up NYU’s absurd level.</p>
<p>Yes unfortunately, tuition for Poly will be going up until it aligns with NYU’s tuition. Before the NYU affiliation, poly was pretty good as it is and their curriculum was much more intense than it is now. That sorta explained the low graduation rate and now it’s getting much better. Some things are still as rough as it is and by officially merging into NYU may make things more complicated for Poly but it’s suppose to increase more opporunity for Poly kids. Poly kids currently have to take NYU’s writing classes, and has been adopting NYU policies in ALOT of things. There are more Poly alums against this NYU merger than the NYU community. NYU needed an engineering school so that it can compete with top universities that have an engineering department.</p>
<p>Hi NYUEngineer I was wondering if you can help me, i recently came to the conclusion that i would like to major in engineering and would love to attend NYU Poly. I am currently a junior and i know they just recently merge so i will be applying as early as possible to get a chance. It be nice to have someone to help me go through this whole process as in telling me requirements and such. So i am just wondering what do you think i should get more involved in right now? Any programs or like pre college things i should join? More volunteering or activities? I have been working two jobs since basically a year ago. I volunteer and also i play soccer and run track. As for SATs and ACTs, i havent taken them yet but i have been studying and will be getting a tutor and starting classes next week to prepare. I will be taking both. My GPA from 9th and 10th grade is at a 87.49 unweighted. Which i think converted to a scale is a 3.3? I take some honors classes and a college class right now. I dont know how much the GPA rises after junior year is over but i am doing well at the moment so i hope to go over 90. I also live in New York so do they look into regents grades? I will be recieving the advanced regents diploma passing over 9 regents by the end of senior year. I dont know if thats anything. I am looking in to going to an on campus tour or info session. I just want to know what else i should be doing to get accepted because i will be applying to other schools but as soon as i get accepted to NYU Poly i am committing. Sorry this is long but if you can help me with what they required that be absolutely wonderful! Thanks!!</p>
<p>Perhaps more important is, which school’s financial aid policies will be used? The former Polytechnic met over 90% of financial need, much better than NYU-proper before the merger, which had a reputation of poor financial aid and high student loan debt.</p>
<p>However, the pre-merger Polytechnic was apparently not in too good condition financially. Perhaps this was the reason for it agreeing to become part of NYU?</p>
<p>Poly’s financial aid will continue to stay the same but the merger can only help bring in more money to the school of engineering. People still get full rides at Poly even after the merger</p>
<p>D and I toured Poly a couple of months ago. It remains on her list though it’s not THE top choice for her. I really hope that financial aid doesn’t suffer at Poly because of the merger.</p>