<p>Hi guys</p>
<p>I'm new to this cornell forum</p>
<p>is cornell's IRL school good? what is it famous for?</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>yes its good. </p>
<p>famous for:
Law school placement
consulting firm placement
unique programs and opportunities
notorious reading load</p>
<p>so if you want to do MBA and you are better at math, can you still go?</p>
<p>as for ec s in high school, does it weigh debate/english ecs more than others?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>ILR stands for "I Love Reading"</p>
<p>but its great</p>
<p>liveNitup, are you enrolled in ILR? If so, what are your career goals? What are your class sizes like? How easy/difficult is it to enroll in your electives outside the ILR school? Can you understand your profs? How much on-campus recruiting is there of ILR grads? Please tell all!</p>
<p>ya please tell all! =)</p>
<p>haha, sorry but I'm a Guaranteed Transfer...I'll be joining you guys in Fall 2007.</p>
<p>My interviewer (last year) told me that ILR is (gomestar got it right) pretty much tons and tons of reading. I chose ILR because I'm Pre-Law.</p>
<p>lol well all colleges will have work. When asked what engineering (for example) is like you don't just say lots of work. I'm sure people understand that a college within Cornell has lots of work. They want to know the benefits of a Cornell education. Someone tell them. (I'm a GT too so I'm as much help as live).</p>
<p>Thanks, Figgy. Well said.</p>
<p>I'm in ILR. </p>
<p>"what are your career goals?"</p>
<p>Not totally sure. Looking at internships at things like organizational development or HR stuff, though still very much trying to figure out what to do. Maybe academic work one day. Will probably work for a OD consulting firm before figuring out what to do after that (maybe law, business, academics, etc). Not really worried at this point. </p>
<p>"What are your class sizes like?"</p>
<p>The intro classes are large (up to 300 students) with some being broken up into smaller sections of about 40. I'm in all uppper-levels now and each has about 15-20 students. It's a nice mix because contrary to what some people may think - large classes are fun! All of your friends are there. </p>
<p>"How easy/difficult is it to enroll in your electives outside the ILR school?"</p>
<p>Easy, as long as you're not jumping into like Chem450 or something. Never had a problem. </p>
<p>"Can you understand your profs?"</p>
<p>Well, yeah. </p>
<p>"How much on-campus recruiting is there of ILR grads?"</p>
<p>ILR has its very own career fair with dozens of employers seeking ILR grads. Also, sometimes companies even request meetings with ILR students only - Goldman Sachs did this a few weeks ago. Career services in ILR is very aggressive and you will have no trouble landing a job.</p>
<p>"ILR has its very own career fair with dozens of employers seeking ILR grads. Also, sometimes companies even request meetings with ILR students only - Goldman Sachs did this a few weeks ago. Career services in ILR is very aggressive and you will have no trouble landing a job." </p>
<p>How are the career services at the other colleges? (Specifically CALS and CAS) Obviously the business program is in CALS so I'm sure that counts for something but what about otherwise? Say you're in the humanities or something.</p>
<p>P.S. - I guess this should be on another thread, sorry...</p>
<p>gomestar, I thought it was a reasonable question as to whether you can understand your profs. Non-native speakers are commonplace in academia and I've heard complaints from many campuses.</p>
<p>i hear complaints from other campus about non-english speaking TA's, but I've never had that problem. nor with professors. Everybody in ILR is pretty much from an english-speaking country.</p>
<p>I was looking at the postgrad report...Does anyone know what percentage of students go into their desired industry/job position? And more specifically, in terms of Consulting and I-Banking? What percent, who wants to go into Ibanking or Consulting, gets offers in those fields?</p>
<p>i don't think that data is collected ... it varies heavily from year to year. This year sucks for ibanking, the banks just aren't hiring very much from any college, yet last year was prime.</p>
<p>What about consulting? While I would like to work in New York, being from Boston, I would love the opportunity to work for Bain or BCG: How is ILR for something like that?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/careerservices/postGrad/upload/Postgrad_Bach_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/careerservices/postGrad/upload/Postgrad_Bach_2006.pdf</a>
ILR</a> Undergraduate Admissions: What Graduates Do
ILR</a> Undergraduate Admissions: Employers and Schools</p>
<p>Of ILR '06 going to employment (eg not grad school), 17% went into financial services, and 9.7% went into HR consulting (see second link).</p>
<p>Bain and BCG both recruited at Cornell, as did a handful of other consulting firms. Mercer, Deloitte, and Towers Perrin did specific ILR-only stuff, the other firms were Cornell-wide. </p>
<p>Still, all of the wannabe IBankers weren't getting jobs so they all went over to consulting and overcrowded that applicant pool making it extremely tough to even get a 2nd round interview for a "2nd tier" consulting firm. </p>
<p>I'm not sure when people on this board will get it, but it doesn't matter if you are in ILR or AEM or even Art History ... ANY major will get you in at a bank or at a consulting firm.</p>
<p>I'm in ILR and it's very easy to take electives.</p>
<p>I came in with a 4 on one science AP, and a 4 on stat. Those combined with the orientation week math assessment exam (everyone passes or has calc credit), eliminated ANY math, science, or foreign language requirement for my 4 years at Cornell.</p>
<p>Also, ILR eliminates one writing seminar if you have a 4/5 on an English AP. One of the most lax programs at Cornell in that regard.</p>
<p>I describe it as a few very specific classes in ILR areas that you either like or you don't. Other than that, they basically hand you the courses of study guide and encourage you take whatever you want with the room in your schedule.</p>
<p>Of course there are a few random requirements scattered around, but almost every course you take will come from a very big list of options. Find me another school that will give a bachelors degree with no math, science, or foreign language classes if you choose not to take them!</p>
<p>Thank you for your input. As a prospective, I was really curious in that regard!</p>