<p>Alright so i've been admitted to Cornell Hotel School and Hopkins CAS but I have no idea which to go to and I would love some ideas about which has better students life/activities to do as well as what you would do. Also, at Hopkins I recieved the Hodson scholarship so its way less expensive but they have no hotel program so i dont really know. Please Help!!!</p>
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<p>Cornell is considered to be the top Hotel program in the nation. If you can make it work without too much debt, and that is the career you want, you should go there. If it is going to be too expensive, you will need to consider other routes to that career. If you aren’t committed to a career in the hospitality industry, then you can forget Cornell and go to JHU without looking back.</p>
<p>I dont think that money is going to be a huge issue and i’m not totally sure about the hospitality industry so I dont know. Whats your perspective on which school would be a more enjoyable living environment for the next four years. Also, do you think I will have the same networking at JHU as at cornell?? Im still also slightly considering UCLA because im from socal and the lifestyle at ucla is amazing I just like the small size of cornell and jhu and a the private school class sizes.</p>
<p>What type of networking do you want/need? Also, where do you intend to live after graduation? </p>
<p>Realize your degree is in Hotel Administration. I’d opt for a more conventional degree if I were undecided regarding my career.</p>
<p>(Also, do note Cornell is not small at all. It has around 14000 undergrads! JHU is smaller, however, and only has around 4700 undergrads.)</p>
<p>I definitely agree that if you get a degree in Hotel Administration you will probably be going into that field and im not sure if I want that or not, but I could always transfer to Cornells CAS if I want a more conventional degree. Im probably planning to live in S California after graduation. Now that you say it, the networking thing does sound sort of stupid. Which school do you think I will have a more enjoyable experience at overall, regardless of academic choice?</p>
<p>Transferring from Hotel school to CAS is not a given. I would not bank on that. If you’re unsure of the hotel field (I respect the people who do the major as it requires a lot of passion, but the degree frankly doesn’t get a lot of respect outside of the industry), go to Hopkins.</p>
<p>I’m going to give you the uber conventional advice to visit both/all campuses to figure out the one you like best. No one can answer that question for you but yourself.</p>
<p>thank you everyone for all your help, it definitely has me thinking! @sentiment - I am actually flying to baltimore and ithaca next week to check out the campuses and see how I feel about them.
@everyone - Does anyone see any major cons about either school?</p>
<p>Visit and don’t let strangers on this forum sway your opinion. You’ll hear the usual stuff like Cornell is in the middle of nowhere, freezing winters, super hard, competitive while people complain about JHU being competitive, boring, nerdy, and in a sucky city. I can tell you as a JHU alum, these rumors of JHU are false. Additionally having visited (overnighted a few times) and considered Cornell for undergrad and grad school and from speaking to friends there, the rumors of Cornell are overstated also. Visiting and speaking to the actual students from the school helps A LOT.</p>
<p>^Another comparison is that JHU cafeteria food has been ranked amongst the worst in the nation while Cornell has been ranked amongst the top. :D</p>
<p>The Hodson scholarship is a pretty big deal, so congratulations. Hopkins is a great school. However, if you are attracted to UCLA for that amazing SoCal lifestyle, then you might not be too happy at Hopkins unless you can discover more to like about it than small classes. Go visit, or at least try to do more research before committing yourself.</p>
<p>If you don’t go for hotel management, what would your major be? What attracted you to Hopkins other than small classes? What do you like to do with your spare time? </p>
<p>JHU has pretty much all the extracurricular resources of any wealthy, mid-sized, private urban university. These include student organizations, concerts, local bars/clubs/ restaurants, museums, and major league sports venues. Special attractions include Baltimore’s inner harbor and lacrosse. Negatives include a high local crime rate and fairly crappy weather (compared to Southern California anyway). Students have a reputation for being especially studious and maybe overly-competitive, but I think this issue is mostly associated with pre-meds and engineers. The campus is beautiful. </p>
<p>What is the out-of-pocket cost difference between UCLA and JHU? I think your choice should be between these two unless you are committed to hotel management and unconcerned about the extra cost.</p>
<p>This is to me one of the stranger choices I’ve seen.</p>
<p>If your choice was Cornell CAs that would be one thing, but the hotel school has a different curriculum, different majors, different fellow students even. It is the best place there is for someone who wants this type of program, but I daresay few of those people would be looking at JHU CAS in the alternative.</p>
<p>However, this does not mean that there is anything wrong with you doing it. It’s just probably unusual, IMO.</p>
<p>Full disclosure: I met Happydad when we were grad students at Cornell, so I do have a bias.</p>
<p>Almost every student (grad or undergrad) who I met from the Hotel School were truly dedicated to that career path. If you are undecided, the coursework will help you decide very quickly. Students do transfer between the colleges and schools at Cornell, and CAS is not your only option. Depending on what you determine to be your professional goals, you may find a much better match in HumEc or in CALS. Do a bit of reading on your flight out there and see what you think. One place to start would be here: [Office</a> of Internal Transfer](<a href=“http://internaltransfer.cornell.edu/]Office”>http://internaltransfer.cornell.edu/)</p>
<p>Baltimore is one of my favorite cities in Maryland. There is plenty to do, and you would find that it isn’t the total backwater that some claim. However if you are a true SoCal kid, the weather in both Baltimore and Ithaca may be more than you want to deal with. Not that snow, dark, and cold (Ithaca) or snow, slush, and rain, and summer humidity (Baltimore) are inherently evil, just that not everyone has a lot of tolerance for that stuff.</p>
<p>You do not need to go to hospitality business with a Hotel school degree. They have a commercial real estate minor within the Hotel school. It is a business school with more focus on hospitality. They learn accounting, finance, just like AEM. Not to ruffle any feathers here, courses in the Hotel school are not that difficult or demanding (same as AEM), so OP would have plenty of opportunity to take courses from other schools within Cornell. Many graduates of Hotel have gone into IB or consulting.</p>
<p>It is not that difficult to transfer at Cornell, as long as GPA is high enough.</p>
<p>I don’t know how difficult it is to transfer from Hotel to CAS, actually. I would speculate it is not a given. Certainly a good GPA, particularly in CAS courses, would be a threshold issue, attainment of which cannot be guaranteed prior to matriculation to the hotel school.</p>
<p>When I was there I knew several people who transferred from engineering to CAS, those people had done at least reasonably well academically. Actually the only people I knew who transferred colleges were engineers, now that I think about it. Of course I didn’t know everyone, then or now. There was a CC poster who said a friend of his was denied transfer from CALS to CAS, this was back in the dark ages like me though. </p>
<p>The hotelies I knew stayed put in hotel, and seemed quite happy to be there. If those particular individuals wanted to go someplace else it would have undoubtedly been to an undergraduate business school of some sort, not an arts & sciences college. But that was them.</p>