AEM or Hotel?

<p>Can you tell me the prospective job options of each major?? I knwo they both have to deal with business, but how specific really is the Hotel school?</p>

<p>If you don't have some experience in the hospitality industry, like working at a hotel, restaurant, real estate agency, country club, or some type of service job (sales probably doesn't help as much as actually performing or facilitating a direct service for the patron), you're better off looking to AEM.</p>

<p>Hotel is very specific. It is one of only 2 undergraduate schools at cornell; the other 5 undergraduate divisions are colleges because they offer more than 1 major.</p>

<p>Do you essensially want to major in business/go to business school? Because if so your undergraduate major is rather unimportant. You could have something typical like Economics or Psychology for a major, but you could also have something less "businessey" and have an equally good chance. A music major might end up going into music business and a bio major might end up going into some bio tech investing or something; comprende?</p>

<p>As long as you take the basic pre-business courses (kind of like how there are pre-med and pre-law courses, just to a lesser degree) you will be ok as I understand it. Look at the top business schools/the schools you want to go to, and see what they require. There will probably be requirements like calculus and econ. but not too much.</p>

<p>I did read somewhere on this board that it's some unexpected major like "mathematics" that has the greatest acceptance rate into business schools. Note: thats acceptance rate, not proportion of acceptances. Naturally alot of prospective business school students major undergrad in econ or something, but the percentage of applying math students getting accepted is highest. Not saying you should study math. I'm saying quite the oppostite of "you should study ____." You should study anything you want.</p>

<p>Well i have worked in a restaurant for frosh but that's it.. the rest of my ECs are service types but does not require human contact</p>

<p>does being a camp counselor count as a positive for hotel?</p>

<p>No, being a camp counselor doesn't count. Matter of fact, when it's put on college applications as work experience, most schools disregard it and don't count it as legitimate work. If you were an assistant camp director or worked in the kitchen, perhaps.</p>

<p>aw that blows, i was gonna put it as a summer activity anyways (it was volunteer, so i guess that makes it even more insignificant)</p>

<p>yeah, little or no hospitality experience hurts your chances a lot at hotel. But do you want to go to business school? Because if so, your college major really doesn't matter. The best advice would be to apply arts and sciences to get the most diverse liberal arts education possible. That way you're more well-rounded and overall educated.</p>