<p>As a word of caution to all, don’t try coming here with the intent of transferring into any other NYU school but CAS. A girl I know all but killed her chances at transferring to stern because she simply wasn’t cut out to take engineering courses with a 3.6 GPA in high school and 2.6 in poly</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I think I have what it takes to “build the tools”. Im a very abstract thinker. Im also thinking of transferring to CAS to pursue a B.A in CS (was planning law school).</p>
<p>^ what would be the difference between a BA and a BS in CS? I’m not familiar :/</p>
<p>Also, a little bit more light at the end of the tunnel for the super overachievers on CC: Poly graduates have gone on to Ivy League grad schools. Imhilion is right though - there’s usually a trail of blood, sweat, and/or tears on the way there, and some kids who were superstar straight-A types in competitive high schools go all B-average at Poly. My advice is, if you come here, try and get acclimated quickly, focus the first semester so you get off at a great start, and just keep the momentum up. And yes, aim for CAS. My friend got in as a transfer from Poly 
but got no financial aid (I think NYU transfers rarely do?? idk), so he stayed despite being a serious liberal arts kid at heart lol.</p>
<p>I’m a female applicant from Michigan and was accepted into NYU Poly with a decent scholarship, but I was wondering what would warrant my acceptance to be rescinded? Although I’m doing much better the second semester (four A’s and two B’s), this year my first semester grades plummeted because I didn’t handle my AP course-load well enough (it was macro and microeconomics, physics b, english, and statistics).</p>
<p>Apologies if I have posted this in the wrong forum or thread.</p>
<p>ure accepted but i dont think u are obligated to go
there should be a form abt paying around $100 to hold a seat
if there was such a form, u would be fine
otherwise, u should call the Poly Undergrad Office
and figure it out
if u were obligated to go
u could try to explain by telling the assitant
like u hav financial problem or u need to stay near ur hometown</p>
<p>you’d have to go through CATACLYSMIC crash in grades to get rescinded from any NYU school, they want to omnomnom your money, i dropped from a 3.8 to a ~2.7 for my senioritis and didn’t get rescinded with a 24k scholarship</p>
<p>I’m currently a CS undergrad at NYU Poly minoring in Financial Engineering. If anyone is thinking about majoring in CS (Computer Science) at NYU Poly, get ready to fail a whole bunch of classes, regardless of what kind of programmer you consider yourself to be. Let me explain.</p>
<p>Our CS classes are as hard as a brick falling on your head (get it?). I have friends who study CS at City Tech (across the street) and at SUNY schools - and they don’t know half the stuff about programming and the theory behind computer science as we do. We get 5, 10, or even 15 points taken off on exams for even the smallest mistakes (e.g. double deletion of a pointer gets you like 10 points off an exam, even though the question itself is worth only like 30). Our math courses are like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I tutor a friend of mines who is also studying Calculus 2 (and is in the math major!) with me at the same time but goes to CUNY Queens. I can honestly say that, even though I’m not a math major like him, the comparison between me and him when it comes to Calculus 2 is like day and night. Oh, and before I forget, I’m averaging a B- in the class. </p>
<p>There are a ton of people who drop out during their freshman year, around the second semester because of the HUGE workload. The work they make you do in your freshman year is not hard at all… but just you wait until Sophomore year and beyond and you’ll feel like you’re in a completely different school. I have a friend who is also at NYU Poly and is a CS undergrad - he studies all day, leaves and breathes CS, knows algorithms, programming, and theory really well and yet only has a 3.2GPA. I doubt it’s even possible to achieve anything more than a 3.3GPA here if you’re in CS. </p>
<p>The merger between NYU and NYU Poly is beginning to show. The campus is getting renovated quite nicely and the workload we have, even though it was quite a bit already, is now reaching astronomical levels. I’m pretty sure that if this transition continues like it is right now, NYU Poly will easily become a Tier 1 school and possibly one of the top 10 or so best engineering schools in the nation.</p>
<p>^ During, the summer I am currently enrolled into the Summer General Studies. After long deliberation I have decided that I should pursue a degree in IDM (Integrated Digital Media). Since, you are currently enrolled into CS & Financial Engineering I need your help in preparing for a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science. Due to the nature of IDM I am allowed to take the following electives:</p>
<p>4 2000/3000-level HuSS electives
2 3000/4000-level HuSS electives
12 credits of restricted electives
12 credits of free electives </p>
<p>Could you give me some advice in choosing electives to prepare me for M.S. CS? Thank you for the information that you have provided.</p>
<p>Hi everyone,
so i’m currently torn between jhu and nyu-poly. both schools have their ups and downs for me and i really don’t know what i should do now.</p>
<p>jhu pros: accelerated program, some crazy research going on, dean’s innovation group (i think this is like jhu’s engineering honors program or something)
cons: no fin aid and no scholarship. and i don’t really care about the campus</p>
<p>nyu poly pros: honors program, possibly 4 year bs/ms program, nice connections for internships, love love love the city. also decent amount of scholarship
cons: name is smaller than jhu, research is kinda weak compared to jhu</p>
<p>i plan on double majoring ee and ce at either college. program and course-wise, would i learn significantly more depending on the major at one of the colleges? advice please and thanks :D</p>
<p>Can’t really comment much on John Hopkins… except that it is extremely well known for research. So if you really, really want your undergrad career to involve lots of research work, JHU it is. To be honest.</p>
<p>Congrats on both acceptances. Don’t let the brand names make your decision though! I just had my second interview with a major business for a highly selective internship. I got confused for going to Columbia, lol, and my potential employers and co-workers are primarily Ivy Leaguers. I think bottomline, you’ll end up successful and happy wherever you go, so maybe pick which one you’d rather chill in for four years? Or talk it over with your parents, since they’re probably paying lol</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone who has decided to attend NYU-Poly in the fall!!! See you in September!</p>
<p>Does NYU Poly Admissions not answer email? I’ve emailed them several times and never heard back.</p>
<p>Hi,Static
I read some of your posts before,and know you are very familiar with NYU-poly. I plan to apply to NYU-poly,majoring in chemical engineering,so I want to know something special in NYU-poly comparing to other top engineering schools. Such as the opportunities, internship,relationship between professors and students,cooperation in research with other universities or other countries etc. Wish you a wonderful day.I hope to hear from you soon.</p>
<p>ready2011: sorry, I saw your post very late! yes, they do email back…it’s possible that they’ve had their hands tied lately, as this year’s incoming freshman class is the largest yet. Try calling them too. You’re guaranteed to speak to someone if you call during business hours. And when you call 1800POLYTECH… you never get an automatic bot/operator too. I strongly recommend calls over emails.</p>
<p>Conqueror: oh wow, I literally know nothing insightful about the chemical engineering department. I can tell you that I went to a career management meeting today for NYU-Poly teaching assistants, and reps told us that the career center was merging for NYU and Poly. We’ve had access to their system for a few months now (online database for job search), but it’s becoming a more substantial, obvious relationship now. The career MGMT center seems good… I found a part-time job through Poly’s former online portal.</p>
<p>I guess overall: Poly is in a great location for job placement, it’s a small school so professors do get to know their students, and there’s lots of room (and noticeable potential!) for growth now due to Poly’s merger with NYU. NYU has its sights on going global, imho, and Poly’s lucky enough to be taking the ride :)</p>
<p>Just a random side note/observation: Poly is changing quickly! No. Like. Jaw-droppingly, conspicuously fast. I’m a rising junior, it’s orientation week, and I’m stunned at how the new freshman class compares to mine. There’s some consistency: there have always been these undertones of sassy enginerddom (so asserts my coworker at my internship - who graduated from Poly 20 years ago). But there’s a kind of drive/focus/motivation that’s really inspiring. Like everyone wants to get started at Poly, kick some serious STEM butt, and leave with flying colors and an awesome job opp at a company/business of their choice. I feel like even when I came in, I didn’t really know what I wanted with my education or what I wanted to do with my degree, and that seems to be the general sentiment for my class. We don’t know what we want to do, but we know what we need to get there. Whereas these freshmen seem to know what they want to do, and they will do so. idk, it’s just awesome. go class of 2015!!! totally rooting for you all to make Poly an incredible engineering university :)</p>
<p>thank you very much static75 ; ]‘’</p>
<p>Is GPA really important for this school?</p>
<p>How is the Biomolecular Science program at NYU Poly?</p>
<p>Also, how is the campus life for girls? I know the majority of students are guys, so I am wondering how the experience is for female students?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Hello to static 75, Imhilion, and Ronzalpha if (s)he is still following this long thread,</p>
<p>I will be an “EA” Fall 2012 Freshman applicant (I know that it’s rolling so I would like to try and submit my CommonApp within a week to beat out the Thanksgiving crowd
My main choices, in order, are: Cooper Union (ED), NYU-Poly (EA), and Columbia (reg); however, reading the back and forth replies on this thread makes me want to back out of the Cooper ED because I am slightly intrigued by NYU-Poly as many of my Queens High School for the Sciences classmates will mostly consider NYU CAS or NYU-Poly and I would like to start school with a few friends :), as well as due to static75’s detailed descriptions of her stay thus far at NYU-Poly. A friend of mine that is a current student at NYU-Poly (now in his 3rd year and rejected Cooper to go to NYU-Poly) also has only nice things to say, as well as some 1st year attendees from my school.</p>
<p>However, as I am most likely to take whichever college will give me a full ride or REALLY close to that since I am going to be the only one footing the bill, I would like to know how much Promise and Honors merit scholarship I would receive and how much would remain for me to pay if I received no Financial Aid (worst case scenario).
My SAT “Superscore” (it happened on the same test so no mix-and-match required):
CR: 690; M: 720; W:690 
TOTAL: 2100
SAT Math 2: 800
SAT Chem: 800
I really can’t tell you GPA as my school (QHSSYC) doesnt really do that, but my unweighted average is essentially a 93 or 94. Here is a snapshot of my unofficial transcript if you feel that is important and have time to look it over:<a href=“http://i41.■■■■■■■.com/mvkglz.jpg[/url]”>http://i41.■■■■■■■.com/mvkglz.jpg</a>
My extracurricular activities for my HS life include Science Club for all 4 years (now captain of science bowl, I was there in 2010 when NYU-Poly hosted and my team won 2nd Place), Handball Team (now captain), and Volunteering at Flushing Library for 4 years. Also, I was part of my school’s Math Team for 9th, and part of 10th grade during which I won Honorable Mention and School Winner Award for the AMC-10 respectively. I rejoined this year.
My AP Classes include AP World (4), AP US History (4), AP English Language (4), AP Statistics (5), and AP Chemistry (5). I am currently taking AP Literature, Calc BC, Physics B (and C), and US Government and a Comp Sci 172 class at our neighboring York College which I expect to get an A for but I doubt it matters as it is York college and I wont get my “college” transcript until I have already submitted my application.
I plan on (if accepted under preferable conditions) trying to do Dual Major of Computer Science at NYU-Poly and Finance/Business (dont really know difference, I’ll sort out later since you guys are essentially doing EE and MechE(static75). I was wondering if this would be possible… Else, I would stick to Computer Engineering, but then I might as well continue EDing to Cooper and see my brother everyday >.<</p>
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<p>EXTREMELY SORRY for long-winded post, but trying to be thorough…
Thanks,
Mirage</p>
<p>If it’s a money thing, I’m really not sure anymore. When you enter Poly, I’ll be three years ahead of you, so I can’t really make a good estimate of what you’d receive. But I think your math + CR score may need to go up. Getting accepted into the Honors Program, for example, is becoming increasingly competitive. :(</p>
<p>Honestly, because you said you’re going to be the one footing the bill, make sure you apply for in-state schools. I got a full ride to NJIT (tuition and housing…and extra?!?) but I think I would’ve found a way to be content there too. It’s not an unimpressive university at all.</p>
<p>Okay, now the good news: your SAT 2’s should save you. haha that’s awesome! I got a 790 on my SAT Math 2… <em>rage</em> 
I think Poly would be a great fit, and I suggest you apply and see what they offer you. And maybe negotiate… I don’t know the success rate of that, but it couldn’t hurt, right? :P</p>
<p>Also, I’m doing Electrical. I came in as a MechE, checked out the catalog, was turned off by thermodynamic fluids or something ridiculous-sounding like that, and switched my major to Electrical. I’ve since discovered a love for electronics and wireless sys. It’s worked out. Cooper Union isn’t such a bad choice. I know people who’ve chosen Poly over Cooper, and I have friends at Cooper. I think both are running success stories, and I get the impression that you’ll be perceptive enough to figure out what college will work best for you when the time comes. 
Good luck!</p>
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<p>I don’t know too much about BMS - sorry!</p>
<p>As for the girl to guy ratio, I feel like it’s becoming less and less perceptible. The newest class seemed to bring up the ratio a bit. I think the latest stat is 25% female? It feels like 33% though? Like, one girl for every two guys, that sort of ratio. Honestly, when guys complain about how there aren’t enough girls or there aren’t any pretty girls at Poly, they’re lying to try and hide the fact that they don’t have the guts to ask them out or out of intimidation. Like, they complain about girls more than they talk to girls. that so doesn’t fly</p>
<p>I’m not entirely sure what types of q’s you have though about campus life. There isn’t really anything catered specifically to girls just like there really isn’t for guys. SWE has a growing presence, but overall, I think I get the sense that we’re all in this together and there’s really no guy/girl crazy ratio.</p>
<p>Okay, except in EE. Being one of two girls in my 30 person Electromagnetic Waves class. A little too weird. The professor knows when I’m not there. It’s hard to blend in 
but yeah, for BMS, it shouldn’t be a problem at all</p>