<p>Hey so here are my options: </p>
<p>WashU Olin, Cornell Hotel Administration, Bowdoin, JHU, Tufts, Virginia, and Northwestern. Which one should I attend? Rank in order, from best to worst:</p>
<p>That’s a very broad range of schools. What are you planning to major in?</p>
<p>Im thinking business. I heard that if you go to the Hotel school, you can still get a solid business education in something like marketing/finance to go along with a background in hospitality. Is this true?</p>
<p>It probably is true. Plus, the background in hospitality gives you an in to a particular set of perfectly decent and interesting industries, where that wouldn’t otherwise be the case. I think they have a pretty strong alumni network too.</p>
<p>IMO you should stop setting up so many different threads regarding the same issue.</p>
<p>IMO you should mind your own business. Thanks for your help and all, but clearly i want a wide range of opinions. If you have a problem with my threads, dont look at all of them</p>
<p>I will take your advice and mind my own business, with respect to your further posts.
Others may do as they please.</p>
<p>I appreciate your efforts and help.</p>
<p>Twaan, you can bring an inactive thread to the forum’s attention by “bumping” it without starting another, redundant thread. Just post a new message with <bump> as the sole content. The disadvantage of restarting a thread over and over is that new readers don’t see previous posts. </bump></p>
<p>Anyway … in my opinion all the schools you listed are excellent, but they are fairly different from each other (hence, hard to compare in a single list). If you believe the US News rankings, UVa has the best undergraduate business program of any of these schools (at #6 for the specialty). Bowdoin and Tufts apparently do not offer undergraduate business majors at all. Hopkins, WUSTL, and UVa do, but their business schools are separate from their schools of arts and sciences. At WUSTL-Olin you can mix the business program with courses, majors and minors from other WUSTL schools (I’m not certain about the freedom to do so at JHU or UVa). Northwestern (which has a highly regarded MBA program) offers an interdisciplinary minor in “business institutions” within arts and sciences (but apparently no undergraduate business major). </p>
<p>So, US News ranks these schools and programs in several separate lists. Bowdoin is ranked with other LACs. The others are ranked with “national universities”. The “national university” rankings may reflect arts and science programs more than business, engineering, and other pre-professional programs. UVa-Business is ranked in a list of Undergraduate Business Programs. I don’t know WUSTL-Olin’s position in that list because the online ranking only shows the top 10 and Olin is not among them. I don’t think Cornell-Hotel has a specialty ranking.</p>
<p>Is money a major factor in your decision? If so, how do your out-of-pocket costs compare after aid? Have you visited all these schools? What about climate, geographic setting, size, atmosphere, etc.? Any preferences?</p>
<p>I live in New York so the weather does not bother me. I got 6 k financial aid from every school, but for some reason received 40 k from Cornell. Also, i got a full tuition merit scholarship from WashU (40K).</p>
<p>What do you think is better? Cornell Hotel or WashU Olin?</p>
<p>They are two very different areas, it really depends on which one you like</p>
<p>The correct answer to “Which is better?” questions often is, “It depends”. Are Cornell and WUSTL significantly less expensive, out-of-pocket after aid, than everywhere else? If so, then why are you even considering the others at this point?</p>
<p>If it’s down to Cornell-Hotel and WUSTL-Olin, then I’d lean toward WUSTL. You don’t seem to be clearly committed to Hospitality Management. WUSTL is not so specialized and also gives you the flexibility to mix business with liberal arts. I don’t know if that’s equally true of the Cornell program (you’d have to investigate, if it’s important to you.)</p>
<p>Your list of schools suggests you don’t have a clear sense of direction (not unusual for a high school senior). Maybe the idea of Hospitality Management does sound very appealing, but you don’t know enough about it to really commit. If that’s the case, talk to somebody at Cornell about your concerns. Call admissions. Ask them what happens if you decide after a year or two that Hospitality is not your thing. Can you transfer to arts and sciences, or can you stay in the Hotel school but work out a major program that stresses economics ?</p>
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You don’t want to go to a “hotel school” unless you are really interested in hospitality management. There is usually a 400+400 hours hospitality internship requirement for graduation.</p>
<p>What can you go into with a hospitality management degree?</p>
<p>Cornell or Virginia.</p>
<p>I think you should go to any school but Cornell.</p>
<p>If you got $6K from some schools that meet need and $40k from Cornell, someone made a mistake.</p>
<p>@ oldfort</p>
<p>Why any school but Cornell?</p>
<p>@Redroses</p>
<p>I heard Cornell gives really good financial aid</p>