<p>Yeah, some of my friends took Math B. I took Algebra, Geometry, Trig and Pre Cal this year. </p>
<p>By the way, my average is 85/95, which equals to 3.0 GPA in my school. My math average isn’t that good, standing at 80 >.> My science is good with 86 but my history is best with 96 (thanks to APs).</p>
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<p>What is “high school calculus” that is not AP? Is it like “calculus for business majors” offered in universities? When I was in high school, there was only one calculus course offered, following the AP Calculus BC syllabus (when calculus demand increased to two classes’ worth of students, they added a second section as AB).</p>
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<p>My high school offers both AP Calculus (both AB and BC, each is full year), as well as non-AP Calculus, which covers up to almost everything in BC. We just don’t take AP exam, that’s all. In fact, I could because all I had to do is to register for the exam, but I couldn’t because my health issue did not allow me to. </p>
<p>Yeah. I know some schools offers AB in the fall, and follows by BC in the spring, so student will take BC exam in May. </p>
<p>I think it is becoming a norm that high schools offer non-AP calculus because not every student can get into the AP programs. If OP’s school offers such program, I strongly recommend him to take him, since it is quite late to join AP class (he can still try to apply…).</p>
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dukedom, don’t worry so much. I am not trying to bigmouth NYU-Poly, but NYU-Poly is not Columbia, or Cooper Union.
According to USNews:<br>
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<p>This rate is high enough that I think you will have a chance. Are you only interested in NYU-Poly? Do you participate in any extracurricular?</p>
<p>My school provides regular Calculus, plus AP AB and BC. </p>
<p>NYU Poly is the only engineering college in NYC, that I know. One that I have a chance at… </p>
<p>Thoughts on this? Recommendations?</p>
<p>You have Cooper Union, NYIT, CUNY City Collge, Columbia, NYU-Poly, SUNY Maritime, and SUNY Stony Brooks.
Don’t limit yourself to only NYU-Poly. I am a CCNY student but that doesn’t mean I am selling CCNY to you.</p>
<p>Look into those schools. If you get accepted into Cooper Union you don’t have to pay for a damn dime, but it is considered one of the best undergraduate engineering school in the nation so it is very difficult to get into that program. Columbia, similarily, because of it is IVY is it also very difficult to get into. SUNY and CUNY aren’t bad schools. SUNY Stony Brooks is one of the best SUNY schools and it’s CS is excellent. CUNY City, on the other hand, is slowly recovering from the problems of its open admission. Back in the days it was once regarded as the Poor Man’s Harvard.</p>
<p>CUNY offers Macaulay Honors program which is equivalent to that of Cooper Union - free tuition.
I encourage you to look into all these schools and speak to your college counselor. NYU-Poly is a very good school, but like I said, don’t limit yourself to just one school :] </p>
<p>Yes. I know chance matters. But you should also look into them. Your SAT and other criteria might give you a boost. You have be financial wise too. You know why everyone is complaining about debts? Because all they care about is the reputation of the school. I would love to go to Harvard but I can’t afford (I didn’t apply at all… just saying). </p>
<p>Are you a rising junior, or a rising senior?</p>
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That’s good. I would drop Stat and trade it with your high school calculus, ** if ** you don’t want to take AP Calculus AB / BC, or if you cannot get into them.</p>
<p>I don’t think I can make it to Cooper Union and defiantly not Colombia. I’m not sure what the rising means but I am currently a Junior, with my junior year ending and will be a senior starting this September. </p>
<p>I will of course look into other schools, but for some reason my mind wants to go to NYU Poly, because it’s close and all But yeah, Cooper is a place I would love to go but know I can’t make it :(</p>
<p>By the way, I didn’t understand what you meant, in your last paragraph. Drop stat, trade? Didn’t really understand that. </p>
<p>Anyways thank you! I glad you guys are helping me out, as I said… I’m new and have no one to guide me.</p>
<p>Oh. My bad.</p>
<p>I was suggesting that you should drop AP Statistics and replace that with regular Calculus if you can’t or don’t want to get into AP Calculus AB / BC. You will thank me if you study Calculus before entering college :] </p>
<p>Yes. It means you are a rising senior; you are becoming a senior. </p>
<p>How is your SAT so far? Like I said even a 4.0 student was rejected by Stony Brooks, although people usually regard it as a garbage can because everyone goes there (which is unfair because the school itself is very good). If your SAT is good, and you have good GPA, colleges are more willing to offer you a bigger financial package.</p>
<p>In general, you should apply to at least two reach schools, and two safety schools. Reach means you have a chance (possible), and safety means you can get into it (70~80%). But it can be quite costly because there is an application fee for each admission, ranging from $50 ~ $200. </p>
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<p>These schools provide engineering programs, within the City. </p>
<p>If you want to study Computer Science you don’t have to attend an engineering school. There are other schools here in NYC that provide excellent CS education. You still have time to think. Use this summer to explore your interest! Ask more!</p>
<p>Oh okay, I just took my SATs this June so score should be in soon. I didn’t study or anything, it was just practice… Sort of. I plan to take a prep class this summer and take it again on October.</p>
<p>Hmm. I’m a rising NYU-Poly junior. Here are a few notes/tips:</p>
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<li><p>AP Statistics is an awesome class, and it could be useful for the database/network security management career fantasy you’ve dreamt up.</p></li>
<li><p>If you take Calculus (or AP Calculus) in your senior year, you’ll have an easy A your freshman year of college, which is a nice thing to have at any point in your college career 
If you don’t take Calculus in high school, buy a Princeton Review AP Calculus Review book, and read and memorize all applicable sections for exams, and you should be equally okay. The math courses tend to be jam-packed and fast-paced here.</p></li>
<li><p>I’ve run forums and blogs since I was about 12, haha… your dreams may change and evolve, but I would recommend Computer Science as a major for you. It is almost entirely programming-related, which is pretty useful actually, but it has close ties with network and database security (as does Comp Eng, but from the embedded systems/hardware standpoint). Computer science is just always a relevant major, and it teaches you to be a problem-solver :)</p></li>
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<p>Do you know how much math is involved? Kinda stupid question, to tell the truth. </p>
<p>But also, yeah I run my own websites and stuff and even have a web hosting business, which doesn’t bring in money for my pocket but pays for itself and to host my own hobby sites.</p>
<p>How is NYU Poly like? Do you get any benefits for also being considered an NYU student? Also, yeah I think computer science will be good for me. My school allows us to double up, I’m not sure if I should. </p>
<p>Since I’m already taking AP Physics, AP English, AP Economics, AP Stat… Physics is two periods. </p>
<p>Man, I have so many questions. </p>
<p>Thank you and everyone else who are dealing with me! Also, what were your grades like when entering NYU Poly, like getting accepted to it.</p>
<p>Haha well, okay. I had a 3.7/4.0 GPA, top public magnet high school, 2290 SAT score. That kind of cliche thing.</p>
<p>The quantity of math depends on the major. Electrical engineering feels like all math 
CS would veer off into matrices from linear algebra (I think). The scoop may be found here (under Computer Science - at the very end is every class you will take in 4 years): [2009</a> - 2011 Catalog | NYU-Poly](<a href=“http://poly.edu/catalog]2009”>http://poly.edu/catalog)</p>
<p>Yup, there are a few types of us at Poly. They’re mostly the crazy entrepreneurial types, running businesses on their iPhones in their Physics class, skipping a lot, refusing to do ‘useless’ assignments, etc. If you’re that type… grin and bear it, and don’t skip classes :P</p>
<p>How is NYU-Poly like? It is awesome. Any benefits from being considered an NYU student? I guess being able to tell people you’re an NYU student. It instigates less questions than the ambiguous “Poly” response, you know? You also have access to their facilities, which I don’t use because they’re normally crowded, difficult to find, or too out of my way to go visit haha.</p>
<p>Don’t you dare double-up on math!!! I did that! You will get senioritis, and you will burn out!! My personal, sincere recommendation is calculus. You could use the easy A, or the advancement to Calc 2 straight away. But I again recommend the easy A lol. NYU-Poly isn’t all that easy. Or, maybe just take regular calculus in high school (vs. AP)?</p>
<p>I wanted to take AP Stat for an easy A. Because the class was easy and the teacher is nice, lol. </p>
<p>But yeah, I’m so lost right now. I think I’ll just study calculus on my own before Poly? If I get accepted, that is. </p>
<p>Your grades seem amazing, Colombia worthy in my opinion. Anyways, thanks for telling me all this. </p>
<p>Also, I doubled up math this year and burned myself last semester, got like a C in Pre Cal and B in Trig. My Pre Cal class is connected to University of Albany, I’ll get Pre Cal college credit for it. I don’t think I’ll transfer them to my future college, the grades are horrible :(</p>
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<p>Again, this will be blatantly obvious to admissions committees. You would be much better served by taking calculus if you can only take one of them.</p>
<p>Well, it sounds like you’re not too sharp at math :s you should definitely take calculus in high school :P</p>
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That advice: LOL been there, gone through it, bad bad bad. Listen to that advice! :] Relax. </p>
<p>I find it quite funny how many of us have experiences with the whole business of forum (phpBB, for example), CMS, and blog software, which led us to find interest in technology. I have to tell you that this technology field is enormous. It is very hard to tell you everything in one post because this field is almost boundless to me. </p>
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<p>Okay. Can’t edit my post, so here’s the new reply:</p>
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<li>Please sign up for this. I believe you will get email notification and an admission booklet later during your senior year. If they want you they will spam your mailbox with a Dean Application. I believe the Dean App is fee-free and one will receive an admission decision within a month. I don’t remember the detail. </li>
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<p>[Contact</a> Us | NYU-Poly](<a href=“Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”>Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering)</p>
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[Freshmen</a> | NYU-Poly](<a href=“Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”>Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering)</li>
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<p>Other links are:
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[url=<a href=“Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”>Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering]Academics</a> | NYU-Poly](<a href=“http://v.poly.edu/]vPoly[/url”>http://v.poly.edu/)</p>
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<p>Speaking of open source projects such as phpBB (forum), WordPress (blog), NYU-Poly website itself is built on Drupal. I knew this because I used to play with Drupal, and one day I was just looking up NYU-Poly’s website, and I found the way the URL patterns and the way the contents presented were similar to Drupal’s.</p>
<p>I never liked Drupal, the learning curve for it is too high. I never liked phpBB either, instead I use SMF. I can turn SMF into a “CMS” if I want to and like the themes and modifications avaliable for it.</p>
<p>I’m not the smartest math student and have a problem with studying or rather a lack of it. I have the trig regents tomorrow, didn’t study or anything, just can’t myself to do it. I know without studying or anything, I can get somewhere between 70 to 80. </p>
<p>I think I really need to change those.</p>
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<p>Doesn’t everyone (including university admissions committees) know that AP Statistics is a lightweight “easy A” course compared to AP Calculus (even AB)?</p>
<p>Help me out here…</p>
<p>Would AP Statistics help in ANY capacity? I thought that if one does not take calculus-based statistics, it does not count.</p>