<p>I'm starting NYU-Poly this September, but recently I started to regret choosing Poly because of it's male:female demographic, semi-social commuting population, and lack of diversity or interaction between the students.</p>
<p>Presently, I'm going to Poly for my freshman year to experience it for myself. But transferring seems more of a possibility the more I research the two colleges.</p>
<p>Can someone compile a list of pros/cons, or experiences for each college? Even if it's one sided, I just need reassurance about which decision I want to make.</p>
<p>My main concerns is the social aspect, ultimately my happiness, during college. </p>
<p>I understand that an Engineering major implies an extensive workload, but I still expected to grow in college – both socially and culturally. I just don’t see myself doing that at Poly.</p>
<h2>To clarify, can someone please confirm or prove me wrong with points of personal experience?</h2>
<p>SUNY Buffalo is just the main college I’m considering to transfer to. If you can contribute any experience or information about that college it would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Isn’t NYU poly in NYC? How can you not get enough diversity, females, etc. in NYC? Granted, it’s a lot easier to meet people at school since that’s a huge aspect of it and most people are looking to meet new people… but it seems like there would be a lot of social opportunities being in NYC.</p>
<p>Since you’re going to poly for your freshman year… see how it goes, then worry about SUNY Buffalo.</p>
<p>JEffycakes-
Can’t tell you much about Poly, but we did omit many engineering schools for the reasons you stated.</p>
<p>Son is at Buffalo, just finished his freshman year. It was a great fit for him. The kids up there love the school. The kids are friendly. Son has a made a great group of friends. No regrets.</p>
<p>Yes, he studies a lot and is in class a lot, but he has time to socialize too. One benefit to being in Buffalo, and many of the SUNY’s and cold weather schools: socializing seems to take place in the dorms.</p>
<p>Good luck to you. You may love Poly, but if not, do not hesitate to apply to Buffalo!</p>
<p>What ken285 said is really true
I am not a Poly student so I cannot tell you how difficult the workload is.</p>
<p>However, I do feel that NYU-POLY (as someone may stress it so hard that it is NYU-POLY, not NYU POLY) doesn’t worth the bucks.</p>
<p>NYU-POLY is good engineering school, but you can get similar education from any other school. Hence, Columbia has better connection and overall quality at a similar tuition rate (maybe a little bit more expensive). </p>
<p>NYU-POLY is very similar to Columbia’s engineering school when it comes to entrepreneurship. Both school encourages entrepreneurship. Columbia has a very reputable career and entrepreneurship initiative. Similarly, NYU-POLY has one too.</p>
<p>From my personal experience, NY-POLY students are very involved in robotics initiative, especially FIRST robotics. So if you like robotics, and you like mentoring, NYU-POLY is probably a fit school.</p>
<p>Buffalo’s eletical and civil are very good. Overall Buuffalo is a very good SUNY school. The advantage of attending a non-commute school (opposite of urban campus like Columbia and NYU-POLY) is the fact that you and other students are more likely to be involved with club events, and are more likely to be engage in hands-on experience.</p>
<p>This is a reason why I think MIT, Cornell, Caltech students are more successful. At least most of their students cannot commute, although students there are extremely talent and creative anyway.</p>
<p>Oh come on, Buffalo isn’t bad. It’s not New York City…but then again, nowhere else is. It’s a typical American city with a few economic hardships - there’s a lot of them in this country! But it’s a great area with great people, and living here for most of my life, there’s nowhere else I’d rather live.</p>
<p>Buffalo is still a big commuter school - there’s a lot of people in the area that commute there - but there’s also a lot of people that live on campus. Probably not anything like a lot of other schools that have been mentioned.</p>
<p>Definitely made a good observation about the clubs. There’s a ton of clubs, including engineering clubs - and they can make the difference in the college experience.</p>
<p>Hey, I’m a current NYU-Poly student. I used to dorm there…I’ve noticed that a lot of people who dorm feel too comfortable and don’t go out of their way to participate much in anything at Poly, ironically. For instance, they wake up 10 minutes before classes, and then decide whether or not to attend. lol and then when class is over, they eat, socialize, and hit the dorms again. Or maybe the city. But not the school or anything significantly developmental to the community - rofl.</p>
<p>You may have heard this expression so many times before that it feels cliche, but college IS absolutely 120% what you make of it. I know absolutely nothing about the SUNYs - I’m from Jersey - but I know that the Poly population is small, and the atmosphere is laidback, non-competitive, intimate, with a light veil of stress (usually deadline or exam-induced).</p>
<p>The girl:guy ratio? uh getting better. you may not be all that familiar with your incoming class yet, but I am, because I see the General Studies students on campus from time to time; they’re nice. there are girls. I’m a girl. we exist. :p</p>
<p>Have you been to any of the events where Poly students are on panel and take questions from prospective students? Because you’d know there are a wealth of opportunities abound around these parts; you just have to scavenge them.</p>
<p>Someone said Columbia is better than NYU-Poly? Sure, rank-wise, so is Carnegie Mellon. I got into both, but Poly offered the prettier scholarship. I must’ve second-guessed myself a thousand times, but I have no regrets and wouldn’t transfer for the world. No school has what Poly’s got haha. I can barely explain it. It feels and is so different from any school I’ve ever visited, and I’ve visited my share.</p>
No school has what Poly’s got haha. I can barely explain it. It feels and is so different from any school I’ve ever visited, and I’ve visited my share.</p>