<p>Hey Comrade! 
Hmm. Let me comment on your three requirements. From my thinking, it does not fulfill your requirements, but hopefully what Poly embodies won’t sound totally unappealing to you either:</p>
<p>Able to fully provide need based aid - Poly gives really good financial aid, but it’s mostly merit, not need-based. $30.5k out of $34.5k is being paid for me by merit-based aid alone, for instance. This is mostly for “Honors” students though. And I’ve been talking to people, and although I’m not allowed to give out numbers because nothing’s set in stone officially, I would suggest your SAT math score be somehow raised.</p>
<p>Well ranked/helps chances of getting into good grad school - Poly kids have gone onto MIT for grad school. Similarly, MIT/CMU kids have gone on to study at Poly. We also have visiting students from Yale. </p>
<p>Girls/Slightly party-ish. - no. lol are there girls? uh huh. many? no! are there parties? more like…social gatherings where people hop on the next train to Manhattan to go to some events or go clubbing or whatever. However, I partied the first two weeks of college. Hardcore. It’s here - you just have to know where/how to find it and know people lol. Word of advice though? Wherever you go to college, you’ll still get tired of the ‘party’ scene - whatever that may be, and when you do, you’ll look to meet people at college clubs/sports and college events and even off-campus (Brooklyn Heights has a lot of colleges in the area as well as cultural/art/music events, cool jazz bar/clubs and street fairs). People at Poly are sincere though, compared to what I personally found at other colleges where people are fake-nice but secretly super competitive and out to get you and only looking out for their own GPA, etc etc. They’re super friendly and open-minded and smart.</p>
<p>I think some people see the Tier 3 rating and think this place is full of idiots. There are even one or two people at the school who are convinced they are surrounded by idiots, but they never bother to get to really know people. There are super-hackers and super-artists and super-geniuses that go here that will become super-entrepreneurs inevitably and probably conquer the world. 
The difference here is that people are modest about it and they don’t brag about their skills (except for the loser kids who post their GPA’s on facebook lol). And then when it’s job fair time or internship-applying time, they stand out because of the skills they’ve garnered as a result of their passions/ambitions.</p>
<p>Poly is surprisingly fun! Honest. It’s easy to get involved in the zillions of side-projects that students work on. You just need to talk and get around and especially become good friends with upperclassmen and your professors. They will be your saving grace The students are all very open-minded, friendly, and intelligent. But not in a competitive smarmy way haha. The professors are…some of them are so inspirational! As a freshman, you would take some very cool EG courses (where you blog for homework) that will open you up to the possibilities of various branches of engineering, via lectures by guest speakers - all of whom are pre-screened and absolutely amazing.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not sure that Poly is a good place for Physics. I’m sure it’s decent - I know someone in the program, but he’s also minoring in Computer Science because (1) he wants a job after graduation and (2) CS at Poly is excellent. As a CS major, it would’ve behooved you for instance to take graduate courses for credit in Cyber Security because Poly is really GOOD at hacking/security…and the whole shebang. We hold a hacking competition on campus every year, and colleges from around the country (and the world - we had a French university or two this year) compete. It’s awesome. Poly basically has its strengths in select majors. I firmly believe it’s best at CS (for cyber security; it’s what we’re known for), EE (for its connections/CS relevance), Aero/MechE (oh yes, NASA astronauts have been conceived at NYU-Poly), and also I think ChemE/CBE (chem&bio engineering)/BMS (biomolecular sci) because the city is abundant with firms scouting for super-qualified post-grads in these fields.</p>
<p>Hence, if you want Physics, and are not yet turned off by the prospect of polythinking, consider minoring in something that Poly is really really good at it, something that will almost definitely (if you work for it) give you an advantage among the work force.</p>
<p>Congrats on the all A’s in science classes except Bio btw… so, at this point, I suspect I turned you off Poly lol! but I hope I was able to offer perspective? if you do choose to apply, good luck :)</p>
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<p>yg7sy - hi lol you’re definitely NOT bombarding me with questions. Job-wise, NYU-Poly looks very promising, because of our location, our alumni base, and career-planning services. The starting median salary for Poly grads is approx $62.5k ([Top</a> US Colleges ? Graduate Salary Statistics](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/top-us-colleges-graduate-salary-statistics.asp]Top”>http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/top-us-colleges-graduate-salary-statistics.asp)). Which is a shock to everyone because we are indeed supposedly a Tier 3 school…incidentally? that’s probably because of the drop-out rate which is mostly because people can’t handle the hardcore engineering curriculum here. I think Poly always had high standards (i.e. nearly on par academically with such institutions as Carnegie Mel), and now it’s on the rise because it’s attracting very qualified students. (FYI, I chose Poly over CMU which is why I’m allowed to compare the two, lol.)</p>
<p>So, what is the merger doing? Well, for starts, we have double the apps we had last year. So there’s definitely a reputation change. There’s also more emphasis on the liberal arts. English used to count for two credits, and now it counts for three for instance. I think we’re required to take more liberal electives to be more well-rounded and such. NYU is going to renovate Poly this spring actually. Which is awesome. I can’t wait. Eventually, we will become a school of NYU even though we have separate application processes now. I.e. what Stern is to NYU hierarchy-wise, Poly will also be to NYU. </p>
<p>I don’t know much about ChemE at Poly. I’ve sent a message to a resident polythinker at NYU-Poly who DOES major in it though, so hopefully he’ll post here and be able to help you out.</p>
Hahahahahaa that sounds so tacky guys but I swear, I really feel this way :P</p>