<p>What gomestar is saying is that there is no specific undergraduate preparation for becoming a lawyer or investment banker. Many people go into those professions coming from lots of different undergraduate majors, i.e. the comment about art history. I would suggest you look at the Cornell website and see what kinds of classes are offered through ILR. That may give you a better idea of whether you'll be interested.</p>
<p>I stand corrected: there's really only one school at Cornell that places into corporate law, all of the others are just crap ... it's the law school if you haven't guessed.</p>
<p>what he really wants to say is that too many people are using ILR to get into those two career paths and he doesn't want more people like you applying ;)</p>