<p>Define “studying” - if you include homework and lab reports under studying…it may add up. Although honestly, I don’t study at all (I go to Poly) and have around a 3.5 <em>shrug</em>. It’s a lot of work. It’s not hard though. At least, not at first…lol</p>
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I thought that homework counted for almost nothing in college (I’ve heard stories like 2 tests = grade in the class). It isn’t like that in Poly?</p>
<p>Homework isn’t studying, but if it really is that excessive then I would consider it as time spent. Around how many hours per day do you spend on homework, studying, lab, etc, etc?</p>
<p>The work is easy until what year? How much harder does it get? I heard math classes at Poly were close to impossible.</p>
<p>I don’t think I would be able to succeed at a university that is very intense. I did all of high school without studying at all, but I doubt that college will be that easy. I know I’ll have to study, but I don’t think I could survive 3~4 hours per day.</p>
<p>This is a hard choice. Stony Brook seems to have a lower work load and more programs that I like, but it is so far away from the city. Poly has a perfect location right in Brooklyn, but might have much harder work.</p>
<p>Not sure which to pick…</p>
<p>WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA. NYU’s COMP SCI DEPARTMENT DID NOT GO TO BROOKLYN. As a family member of a Comp Sci Professor at NYU I’d like to say that they did not move to Brooklyn, not by a long shot. Sorry!</p>
<p>^ Yeah I know. I guess I was lied to. Sorry guys.</p>
<p>Strychnine: no, there’s tons of work, and for most classes, attendance is mandatory and counts as part of your grade. Poly is not a slacker school, contrary to popular belief…believe me, I was disappointed too lol. Thought it’d be mad easy. Not so, not so.</p>
<p>No, math is easy. lol.</p>
<p>Work load: Every week, you have to write a lab report, give a group presentation on the engineering lab, do a chemistry pre-lab, post lab, EG lab, chem lab (or compsci, if applicable). WebAssign. Math PSets (problem sets). Essays for English. Blogging for Intro to Engineering and Design every week. It’s predictable…and a lot of work! The good thing: there’s a LOT of work, but it’s mostly very EASY. Just follow the rules, stay within the lines, and you will ace courses with flying colors.</p>
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That sounds rather like soul-crushing boredom. Ever seen Office Space?</p>
<p>I’ve heard it called “soul-crushing” before actually. I guess it is boring too… a little like high school. And okay, I’ll admit, few challenges you’d receive freshman year at NYU-Poly will be either mind-blowing or life-changing, but there’s a couple. And it may sound stupid or cliche, but the engineering classes (including the mindless repetition) mold you into a relatively confident problem-solver. You’re taught how to improve yourself, think for yourself, and be a decent visionary. I don’t think the process of repetition is perfect; I’d even say it’s discouraging at times, because it’s an endless cycle first and second semesters here especially, but lots of colleges do certain things in patterns. Poly also isn’t overwhelmingly horrendous because of the opportunities here to do things outside of class and take certain classes and really have a role on campus. Plus, the opportunities after graduation are nothing to scoff at. :/</p>
<p>so, like most colleges, it’s got its good and its bad, and a collegebound applicant would need to evaluate what he or she wants out of their college experience.</p>
<p>yes, I have seen Office Space; it’s awesome. :)</p>
<p>I would be majoring in CS, not chem or engineering. Would I still have as much work as you have? Or would I have even more?</p>
<p>Around how many hours per day do you spend on the homework/labs/etc?</p>
<p>I noticed something odd about the recommended schedule for CS majors at Poly: they suggest taking ‘1122: Intro to CS’ at the same time as ‘1124: Object Oriented Programming’. I don’t get that; how would anyone understand OOP without even knowing the basics? And Discrete I and Discrete II are supposed to be done in the same semester? Why and how…?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>what is the minimum cgpa to get admitted to NYU-poly? im intersted to transfer my credit at there.</p>
<p>Discrete I is the first half of the semester. Discrete II is the second half. I had the same question lol.</p>
<p>CS have labs…my roommate’s in CS. It sounds like a lot of work, but at the same time, it’s doable because it’s easy to get help on the topic. If you don’t feel like studying from the book, there’s a ton of TAs, upperclassmen, and a number of your fellow peers who you can ask for help from.</p>
<p>So, you’d get an Intro to Problem-Solving course. Which might be “MATLab” programming. Then something like, Intro to Programming (it’s Python - bonus points to you if you’re familiar because then it SHOULD be incredibly easy) + a weekly lab. Even if you’re in CS, you’d still have to take EG because it encompasses all different fields of engineering, including programming. In all fairness to the course, it gives you a taste of what all the different majors at Poly pertain to, and it can help you figure out if Computer Science is truly right for you. </p>
<p>Oh, and um, I think my roommate might be cheating because they don’t know how to program. So they copy homework from other people…probably don’t spend more than an hour a day doing homework. If you want to actually know what you’re doing, two hours a night would be more than sufficient on average. Sometimes less - like when you have no classes or one class on some day of the week. You might have more if you have a writing-obsessed English teacher. Finally, some TAs will make your life hell, and some are just angels. It’s mostly good though. And there’s lots of ways to manage time between fun and not-fun collegiate activities.</p>
<p>I don’t want to turn you off Poly, but you should know that a lot of kids drop out of here AND from engineering curricula-based colleges in general - because they HATE watching their friends from liberal arts schools slack off and ace courses with flying colors. Engineering anywhere is time-consuming, but I stand by my assertion that it’s possible at NYU-Poly. Way too many kids here actually have 4.0’s - it’s super possible if you don’t slack off in the beginning because it’s hard to catch up.</p>
<p>I’m checking out the other CS courses for you, Strychnine…</p>
<p>And to be totally honest with you, Afosman, I think they look for a 3.0 for transfer students. Because normally, when Poly gets transfer students, they’re from schools like Stony Brook or some CUNY, but it’s basically a place where the curriculum is lighter than Poly’s, and if you couldn’t take that curriculum, we don’t want you being tossed into a pressure cooker and failing miserably. I have faith in your academic abilities, but it’s easy to burn out…anywhere. If it’s from a rigorous college program, or if you have awesome extracurriculars, or awesome recommendations, or an awesome excuse (e.g. job, just ONE course keeping you from a 3.7, family problems, etc) then there is definitely hope, but if you’re asked by an admissions counselor why your GPA isn’t a 3.0, and you don’t have a solid excuse, you may be in trouble.</p>
<p>On the flip side, a 2.7 isn’t a 1.5 so it’s not exactly mindblowingly horrid, so you have a shot. Try scheduling an interview (in-person or over the phone) with an admissions counselor. 1-800-POLYTECH. M-Th 9-7, F 9-5, S 9-2.</p>
<p>Okay so Strychnine, I went to the Poly catalog…warning, HUGE .pdf file: <a href=“Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”>Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering;
<p>So 1122 would come before 1124 if you declare Compsci before starting at Poly. You’d take it second semester if you declare after you start your first semester, and in that case, they’d just be co-requisites of each other, kind of. It’s apparently possible to learn them at the same time; I imagine they’d complement each other. I wouldn’t know for certain because I’m in EE, but it doesn’t sound like much of a stretch, and I know a good deal of programming.</p>
<p>Also…NYU-Poly is really good at Compsci in comparison to other majors here. I mean, the grad courses especially are nothing to scoff at. If you weren’t so passionate about wanting only a little bit of work, I’d recommend you taking Poly courses to get MS certification in Cyber Security (a.k.a. both BS in Compsci and MS in Cyber Security in 4 years - or 4.5 if something goes wrong). It’s a growing field, and Poly is incredible at it…I know the professors. They are so dedicated, and they always bring in [phenomenal] hackers and people with REAL experience in the field, they go out to dinner after class, and it’s a real bonding and networking experience; it’s just a class too. Some of it is online.</p>
<p>[Penetration</a> Testing and Vulnerability Analysis - Home](<a href=“http://pentest.cryptocity.net/]Penetration”>http://pentest.cryptocity.net/) <–Dino is the super-hacker who gave a lecture at Poly. I follow him on Twitter.</p>
<p>It sucks that you don’t want to work though! lol cuz you would learn so much. SO ULTIMATELY, it’s a lot of work, but at the end, I feel you’d be rewarded for your efforts. But who knows what the future really holds, you know? :P</p>
<p>Thanks for the info :)</p>
<p>Yeah, the Cybersecurity MS program was one of the things I liked most about Poly.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I could take both Intro and OOP at the same time. It seems like both at the same time would be for people who already know at least 1 language fluently. I barely know anything, just the very basic concepts of Python and Java. But, I can’t even write in Java (though I can read it), and I can only write the simplest things in Python…</p>
<p>It’s not that I want to be lazy… just that having so much work would defeat the purpose of moving to NY. If I only wanted to get in a good university, then I’d just go to Berkeley or UCLA, which would save me tons of money. But, I want to move to NY so that I could help my best friend and finally get to spend time with her. I wouldn’t be able to do that if my school work would take up all my time.</p>
<p>Also, I’d like to be able to take additional classes besides the requirements for my major. I don’t want to take only CS classes; I’d like to take economics, finance, history, etc. They let you take NYU classes if you go to Poly, right? But… if I did this, it seems like I would have zero free time… which would suck.</p>
<p>Ah, I have no idea what to do…</p>
<p>Oh, I totally know what you mean now. I think it’s hard to do everything you want to do at Poly…you’d have to prioritize. There are people who party and study like crazy and explore the city aimlessly, but those people don’t do sports and don’t have a job. I work 20 hr/week so my fun-time is limited to weekends. Sometimes, I try to do both too, ya know? Like socializing at work…and I know people def socialize during sports practices. There are a lot of Cali students here, and I know they love exploring the city, and they somehow do so very often. They know it better than I do, and I worked in SoHo last year…</p>
<p>I also believe you can’t take courses at NYU till your sophomore year…technically. That’s mainly because freshmen have very solid, set-in-stone(ish) schedules, and first semester, they’re mostly made for you. You can test out or get out by AP credit and have another class added in its place, but that doesn’t happen too often. idk why.</p>
<p>I want to say that going to a college in the city, because it’s in the city, is a stupid idea, but I think there’s so much to do and be done in New York City, it’s a good call lol. so you are so right. You’d definitely find time to explore the city if you don’t get a job or play sports first semester…and then you could focus on Poly and see how much you like it, and if it’s worth staying in the city for it. If not, transfer and call it a helluva interesting experience?</p>
<p>For the record, I wanted the same thing as you! It kinda didn’t work out for me…after I got a job, but before then, I was on a roll.</p>
<p>I was thinking, maybe you should visit these colleges. You know, plan a trip to the Big Apple. Cuz ultimately, only you can decide :/</p>
<p>hello,i want your help.i got an admit from NYU Poly for MS program in Computer science.whether it would be better to do MS program from there considering their placements and total cost for the course.what is the total cost for MS Program at NYU Poly.</p>
<p>I was debating over that a few weeks ago and I end up picking NYU Poly because their programs are much stronger.</p>
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