<p>I know I will get killed for this but based on my knowledge, it seems that doctab's comment is pretty accurate.</p>
<p>doctab do u work on wall street now?</p>
<p>Doing two majors in two different schools is called a Dual-Degree, and I don't think you can dual-degree in AEM-ECON, AEM-OR, and AEM-Anything that's not in CALS for that matter. As for the hotel school, it is a very reputable school, but it has a concentration in hospitality. While the school does some courses related to IBanking, I've heard of one really good class being taught by a ED/MD at JP, I don't think you should goto the hotel school if you want to work on the street. </p>
<p>As for AEM, it is a very good program, and it has very good placement career wise, and like others have said, it is one of the easiest majors here. </p>
<p>I don't know where they get that econ is all math, cause you can definitely concentrate into different aspects of econ.</p>
<p>AEM > Econ > Hotel? You've got to be kidding me. The debate over whether Econ is better or worse than Hotel is a little needless, since they're very different. AEM, however, is definitely worse than Econ (not to mention that in terms of workload, AEM is fluff compared to Econ) and though it's a good program, Hotel has all that AEM offers (or at least, can have if you take the right courses) plus alumni network connections that'll get a recent graduate a great job. Hotel and Econ > AEM for sure. </p>
<p>Yes, Arts is significantly harder to get into than Hotel but it's also significantly harder to get into than CALS. Anyway, who cares about their own college's admissions rate? It's not more "impressive" to be in Arts than Hotel unless you think it's "impressive" to be in college with a low admissions rate. If that was all that mattered, though, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, (all colleges with admissions rates lower than Cornell's) grads would automatically get jobs over Cornell grads. However, Cornell grads often get some of the best jobs, again, because of alumni connections. That's what matters. It's needlessly egotistical to worry about your college's admissions rate.</p>
<p>Oh, no. I'm the complete opposite. I think I'd like to aim for the college that has a somewhat higher admissions rate and the program I want =] Otherwise, I predict that I would screw myself over by applying to say, CAS.
I think I want to do AEM and Bioengineering or AEM and Biology. So which major gets better job offers then? AEM or Econ?</p>
<p>Perhaps look into ILR as well. I know some people who have graduted from ILR and went into business school.</p>
<p>How hard is it to apply as one major and then add on AEM though?</p>
<p>here's my take on this: I just chose Cornell Hotel School (Meining Scholars) over NYU Stern Scholars yesterday. When I applied to Cornell, I applied RD to the Hotel School on a whim b/c i was sick of putting down "economics" as my major for all the other colleges i applied to......I thought it was a fantastic program, and I got in in early march b/c of rolling admissions......
I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE NOR CONNECTIONS IN THE HOTEL/HOSPITALITY/RESTAURANT/WHATEVER INDUSTRY. However, I have done LOTS of community service (and the reason i applied to hotel was b/c i didn't want to write the "why do you want to study this major?" essay for econ...i just added literally two more sentences to my comm service one b/c service= hospitality-kind of). since the hotel school requires an interview w/ an alumna, make sure you nail the interview. It was definitely my best interview out of all my colleges b/c i was very prepared, etc. (i was in love with the program at the time b/c i thought it'd be fun)...
about a month ago, when i got my 4 waitlists, i started seriously considering stern (which also admitted me early) b/c i didn't want to be stuck in a low-paying hotel job and instead wanted to do ibanking/work on wall street....
i looked into the percentages of people that go into non-hospitality related stuff/wall street from the hotel school and the numbers were significant...and since there are four concentrations in the major, you can pick which one you want to do (for me, finance, accounting, and real estate---that's one concentration; other include marketing/sales, culinary stuff, etc.)</p>
<p>although i'm still not completely happy with all the management (in my opinion, not worthwhile) classes that the hotel school requires us to take, i can still take 40% of finance (really good department and teachers), econ, or AEM classes. Also, the school is really small (about 200 a year) so everyone is really friendly and actually care about you (at least i'm hoping so).
That said, I'm going to be paying $20000 more for Cornell than NYU (b/c i got a scholarship) over four years but I'm still going!</p>
<p>pick the hotel school!</p>
<p>That's pretty awesome! Thank you for the information. Hmm, I think that it'd be very interesting to go to hotel school. I'll probably be putting down economics for every university I apply to also. I'll consider the hotel school though, since it seems as if the concentrations they offer are very pertinent to what I want to do. Oh man, it's either CALS, CAS, or Hotel now. Geez, I have no idea which one I want. I'm not so sure which one I have a better chance of getting into though!</p>
<p>Im not sure if anyone mentioned this but u coudl also look into operations research in the engineering school if ur interested in business.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. That was really helpful. I also looked up the double major requirements, and it didn't seem to be a huge deal... so I think I will probably apply to CALS and opt to double major with AEM later on. That is, if I even get in. Haha. </p>
<p>While I'm on the topic of admissions, do you think they'd care if I sent my national merit stuff there or would it benefit more to send it to other universities who care?</p>
<p>Send national merit stuff to schools that offer money for it, like Rice. Frankly, Ivys don't care and putting it down on your college application will be enough.</p>