<p>Which of the above schools should I attend?</p>
<p>There’s a reason why the hotel school has an 85%+ yield,there is no better place for people who really want that program of studies. If you are one of those people, the answer is obvious. So far as I know, the other schools don’t offer anything very similar. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if you aren’t really that interested or committed to that particular program of studies, and really want a liberal arts education, you should go to a college that offers a liberal arts education. </p>
<p>If you prefer an LAC environment to a university, that leaves only Bowdoin, providing Bowdoin is a strong match for you socially and you don’t have lots of advanced placement. </p>
<p>Alternatively, if you prefer a university setting, and the other choices are all the Arts & sciences colleges at these universities,then you discard Bowdoin. At that point, if it were me, the choice would be made giving considerable influence to personal preference regarding non-academic criteria.</p>
<p>What do you mean about Bowdoin, not having a lot of AP credits?</p>
<p>My daughter attended an LAC that was is bigger and undoubtedly offers more courses than Bowdoin, came in with a lot of advanced standing and hence only had to take advanced courses. She experienced limitations in upper-level course offerings that she felt impeded her to an extent. There was a whole sub-field of her major she got interested in, and her school offered no courses in it, so she simply couldn’t pursue it there. In the end, she had to take a major course or two she didn’t want to take, because the courses that would actually have been of interest weren’t being offered that semester, that year.</p>
<p>I feel if you are not as advanced as she was, therefore have to take more underclassman-level courses, you are possibly less likely to run afoul of the limitations in upper-level course offerings at these small colleges with limited faculty and areas of specialization.</p>
<p>The universities will offer many more courses. This may matter most in upperclass years as your interests may develop in particular, and possibly more specialized, directions. Alternatively it may not matter at all. It all depends on how things go for you.</p>
<p>Ok thanks. Which of these schools best rivals Cornell is a possible business/economics education?</p>
<p>The Hotel curriculum is related to business, but is tailored to be optimized for its particular industries. I think. I don’t know about the others. </p>
<p>Generally, if you are enrolled in a university’s liberal arts college you cannot major in business, and if you are enrolled in its business college you cannot major in economics. So which is it?</p>
<p>I won’t have an opinion for these other schools anyway, but maybe someone else will.</p>