Why the NYU Poly hate?

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<p>I've been spectating CC for a while now, and I recently am attending NYU Poly as a freshman. Before I got here, I thought I was going to a really bad school that just "decided" to join NYU to advertise their school. Long story short, I went, I'm here, and it's actually not bad. Apparently, POLY has some famous alumni that were Nobel Prize winners and the chairman of Yahoo! </p>

<p>So why the hate? You know, everytime I tell someone I'm in poly (if they know what it is), they tell me "Couldn't get into NYU huh?" I mean, I know Poly is only apart of NYU and it isn't actually NYU, but still; it doesn't deserve all the hate.</p>

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<p>As a student at CAS, I haven’t heard anything negative about Poly because, well, I don’t hear anyone talk about it at all.</p>

<p>I’d wager no one here really knows anything about it, so ignore 'em.</p>

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<p>They are just jealous they didn’t know about a small school that is affiliated with NYU and has all of NYC as it’s campus.</p>

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<p>In a few years, it won’t be “hated” or ignored. Instead, it will be sought after, and we will be seeing threads titled “Chance me for NYU School of Engineering”.
But as of now, people still don’t see that the school is almost essentially a school of NYU, just a few more steps until complete integration.</p>

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<p>In fact, NYU-Poly and NYU will cease to be separate entities in 2014.</p>

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<p>^^^ Really? huh. I thought there were separate campuses and stuff? Thats crazy</p>

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<p>NYU has many campuses, with its main campus being based in Washington Square. Poly’s campus, along with the new CUSP school, will officially become its Downtown Brooklyn campus and part of NYU’s NYC campus. NYU already refers to Poly as one of its campuses: [Information</a> Sessions | NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress](<a href=“http://cusp.nyu.edu/information-sessions/]Information”>http://cusp.nyu.edu/information-sessions/)</p>

<p>After the merger in 2014 (slated to happen between January and September), NYU-Poly will officially become the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, an entity within NYU and no longer an independent institution. All degrees earned at Polytechnic afterwards will be official NYU degrees. [Completing</a> the Steps to Make NYU-Poly the University’s School of Engineering](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/about/leadership-university-administration/office-of-the-president/redirect/speeches-statements/completing-the-steps-to-make-nyu-poly-the-university-s-school-of.html]Completing”>http://www.nyu.edu/about/leadership-university-administration/office-of-the-president/redirect/speeches-statements/completing-the-steps-to-make-nyu-poly-the-university-s-school-of.html) [NYU</a> Affiliation, Campus Expansion Covered at Town Hall | NYU-Poly](<a href=“Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”>Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering)</p>

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<p>I don’t konw anything about "hate’ but anytime there is a program or option at a highly selective school that is far less selective, those who are in the more selective programs seem to feel the need to point out the differences. So it is with the Harvard programs and other programs at selective schools that have not so selective entry criteria.</p>

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<p>The end of year letter from Katepalli R. Sreenivasan</p>

<p>In the year to come, we will complete the process of selecting a new NYU-Poly president and dean of engineering across NYU, and make further gains toward our larger goals as we prepare ourselves for the upcoming merger and the many exciting opportunities that come with it.</p>

<p>These positive traits do not mean that all is well at Poly. We do not operate like great schools in many respects—the most important one being the institutional commitment that ought to go beyond personal concerns. In style and substance, we have some work to do. Poly has made strides in research, continues to recruit top faculty, and attracts better students now than a few years ago, but a long gap still exists before we become uniformly attractive for the best talent. </p>

<p>We have made only incremental improvements in our approach to education and the reshaping of our curricula. While I hesitate to use the acronym i2e glibly, I have little doubt that its incorporation into teaching summarizes an aspiration which has yet to be realized more fully. I urge all departments to examine their current course offerings, and broaden their respective curricula by supplementing course offerings that convey the core disciplinary knowledge with steps that better integrate research into the curricula, bring inventiveness into the classroom and the laboratory, and challenge students to draw on knowledge from neighboring disciplines. </p>

<p>Creating a first-rate School of Engineering in a large research university will be a challenge for us all. Modern engineers need a solid foundation in sciences, mathematics, business, financial acumen and humanities, but in these matters we have to find our way through NYU as a whole. We have strengths—and merger with NYU will add some more—but the most important attribute that will determine Poly’s future is its own initiative and sense of destiny. It is this quality that will eventually bring the much-needed resources to Poly. With all of them in place, the odds of success are strong. My own commitment to Poly is not based on any historical ties but on the conviction that Poly is now in the midst of a great experiment that deserves success.</p>

<p>As we move through 2013, I look forward to updating you frequently about other advances and achievements, and the progress of our merger with NYU.
Wishing everyone the best for the New Year,</p>

<p>Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Acting President and Provost</p>

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<p>Re: the merger</p>

<p>So far so good. NYU-Poly has landed some really outstanding, successful, and helpful faculty in recent years, especially in EE (wireless research & brain computer interface areas mostly - good stuff!) and in CS. Bummer for the MEs though. Nonetheless, as an EE, I wish I had more time here! Have fun, freshman! :)</p>

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<p>They get mailing me stuff. Is it a good school?</p>

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<p>What are the pros and cons?</p>

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<p>How is the financial aid?</p>

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<p>I checked off the nyu poly part on my nyu supplement but I didn’t hear from them. What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>Can you get a full ride?</p>

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<p>Nyu or nyu poly?!?!?</p>

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<p>@ comeupkid: yes you can get a full ride but still gotta have loans in the package just like any other NYU package. Poly’s package is really generous if you’re not rich. </p>

<p>I already got in. and poly is the engineering school at NYU so you’ll get a NYU degree in the end. Poly is the toughest school out of all other NYU schools.
@fd1995: you might hear from them on the next batch. They send them out by batches.</p>

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<p>Both. But nyu poly especially. Some of my friends received offers some time ago.</p>

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<p>People have to use the NYU application next year for poly and the NYU poly app will be forever gone.</p>

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<p>Hey hi can anyone tell me what resources are offered to Nyu poly from Nyu. N whr frm will be the final graduation certificate for class of 2015.?</p>