<p>Are there any of you out there who got into cornell hotel without any service related EC?</p>
<p>yes, I somehow got in with absolutely no service related EC. I haven’t heard of anyone else though haha most others were groomed for the hotel school. Just try to sound passionate in essays but not silly, keep it real. Then if you get an interview you just gotta nail it with that person. I’m pretty sure my interview is what got me in, everything else was pretty mediocre for me except I’m a pretty good writer. Just try to get that interview and seduce whoevers interviewing you</p>
<p>@stanmikita thanks. can i ask how your scores and gpa were? and if you were a URM? im not sure about hotel anymore cuz i dont have any experience and i’m not confident that i will nail the interview </p>
<p>Just offering another perspective here. Admitted RD last year (with early admit letter and Meinig scholars). </p>
<p>I didn’t have any hospitality experience until the summer before applying, so I just did three weeks at a local hotel (maybe 30 hours total) and still got in. If you’re worried, there’s still time to squeeze in a few weeks of experience to put in your application. </p>
<p>In my opinion, the interview doesn’t hold as much weight as the Why Hotel School essay. My interview was just 20 minutes and nothing special. However, I suspect each applicant’s experience is different, so still prepare for the interview. Just don’t be too nervous, my point being. </p>
<p>Scores and GPA do not factor as much at the Hotel School. The most important pieces are the essay, hospitality experience and awards, and perhaps the interview. </p>
<p>@siru95 thanks very much. I don’t have time for hotel experience b/c i already have an internship at a really large company. I’m not incredibly outgoing so im worried about the interview</p>
<p>@superdub I am not much of an outgoing person either. But please don’t worry about the interview! They want you to succeed and carry a casual conversation. No need to be super sociable and talkative, but just be courteous and a good listener. I found that asking interviewers about their own college experience is the best.</p>
<p>Interviews may possibly be a bit more emphasized for Cornell Hotel, but for any other college application, it holds the least weight. </p>
<p>@siru95 wow, that’s a relief to hear. Can I ask you some questions? I just wanted to know, how are you enjoying your experience at Cornell Hotel? Are you career goals to become a hotel manager? And, how hard is it to land a non-hotel internship coming from cornell hotel? </p>
<p>A lot of Hotellies work outside of hospitality. They go into banking, consulting, marketing, real estate investment, publishing…</p>
<p>@superdub I actually ended up committing to Duke to study Statistics (I’ve been on the border between that and Hotel Management). </p>
<p>I can tell you what I noticed during my visit though. It was most certainly the best place anyone could go to study the hospitality industry. Students got training at the on-campus hotel, internships worldwide with CEOs and executives of Marriot, Hilton, etc, and lectures from some of the world’s best in the field. </p>
<p>But as @oldfort has said, hotel graduates branch off to a variety of different fields. I don’t doubt a Hotelie would find it hard to land a non-hotel internship</p>
<p>@siru95 congrats on duke haha
@oldfort yeah, but i was looking at this <a href=“https://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/students/careers/documents/SWE-2012-Final.pdf”>https://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/students/careers/documents/SWE-2012-Final.pdf</a></p>
<p>And the top hiring companies are all hotels except for one financial services company</p>
<p>It is not surprising that top hiring companies are hotels. One thing to keep in mind is that hotels are more than hotel management, they also do real estate investment, finance, marketing, but hotels tend to prefer employees with some hospitality experience. My nephew worked at a hotel last summer, this summer he is working at a real estate investment company in NYC.</p>
<p>@oldfort may i ask what your nephew did at the hotel? i assume he’s from cornell hotel?</p>
<p>He started at the front desk then he was moved to finance. He is a Hotellie, minor in real estate.
<a href=“Hospitality & Real Estate Undergrad Minor | Cornell Nolan”>https://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/academics/ugrad/concentrations/realestate.html</a></p>
<p>as a proud graduate of the hotel school, i agree with what @oldfort said. kids end up doing a lot of different things upon graduation. the .pdf you were actually looking at only reports on summer internships, which tend to be a little more operations-based. but if you look at the post-graduate report, you’ll see it shifts away from that. here’s the report from my graduating class. </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/students/careers/documents/2012BSPostGraduateReport-Final_000.pdf”>https://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/students/careers/documents/2012BSPostGraduateReport-Final_000.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thanks guys
I posted the summer internships because I know that summer internships are really crucial for landing full time jobs. </p>
<p>if anyone has any comments for my original post, please help</p>