<p>I'm trying to decide between Cornell (Industrial & Labor Relations), GW Honors (Arts & Sciences), and Northwestern (Arts & Sciences).</p>
<p>Cornell has the campus, the academics, the social life, and the specialized program. All I know is that I'm interested in social sciences, so I'm hoping the program at ILR is not too specialized. It also doesn't have the city, but rather the giant campus experience. Cost=$32,540</p>
<p>GW has the city and the social life (I think). I hope it has a little bit of a campus. I also hope the Honors Program is academically rigorous, but I'm guessing it is. Either way, the Honors Program is smaller and slightly more focused. Cost=$43,740</p>
<p>Northwestern is where my brother goes so it's the school I'm most familiar with. It has the nice campus, the social life, strong academics, and Chicago nearby. However, it is all large school where I would not be in a specialized program. Cost=$45,840</p>
<p>Not really, there is no set curriculum outside of the few core requirements, there are 6 areas of ILR you can potentially move toward, and between ILR electives and general electives there is plenty of flexibility within the program.</p>
<p>no, i want a program that's specialized enough to give me focus and a unique path through the undergraduate experience, but not too specialized to restrict my study. </p>
<p>I want to have the opportunity to take a wide variety of social science courses and I think the ability to take classes from other schools within Cornell may satisfy this. The central focus of the program interests me, I'm just ambivalent about entering right into a set major.</p>
<p>On the other hand, this may make future decisions easier...</p>
<p>my plug is for Cornell ILR, but I'm very obviously biased as a student in the program. Honestly, I don't think NU is worth the $46K they charge - get an equal if not better education at Cornell and save the extra $60,000 for something useful in the end like the down payment on a house, a car, or pay off any loans.</p>
<p>With choices like yours, I would grab a white T-shirt, make three columns and write the name of those schools. Then, go to school tomorrow and carry around a sharpie to have your peers, teachers, principals, attendance ladies, cafeteria ladies, janitors, dogs, and cats mark a tally in one of the choices. At the end of the day, count up the tallies and send a deposit =D</p>
<p>lmao one of my friends did that w/ a white board in my school between Coast Gaurd Academy and UCONN. I go to a small town that obviously likes the military like most farmy schools do so that won. I personally voted for UCONN tho because the poor kid was pressured by his parents to go. He didn't actually want to. And guess wat...now he doesn't really like it. Annoying parents! lol</p>
<p>but Cornell is worth 46 K they charge for the private schools? (hmm...i guess that doesn't apply to you gomestar, does it?) Why should someone pay 46 K to go to Cornell (the size of some public universities) when they can go to a smaller school?????</p>
<p>By the way, if you are looking to go into business, ILR is not the best route to go. Econ/engineering/and perhaps AEM are MUCH better. ILR is primarily for those who want to do human resources. And yes, I know this is true because my sister did some HR work for a big company. They recruited econ majors from Cornell for banking and ILR kids for hr. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Hey I'm considering ILR too...I stayed there overnight, something to consider is that it has very very few core requirements. I followed my guide around for the day and one of requirements (an arts course) was african hand clapping. Plus I was talking to the people there and they kept saying how versatile ILR is. Keep in mind only 200 ppl a year get into ILR! Kids go to law school, med school, business school, etc. Good luck deciding!</p>
<p>History isn't the best route into banking either, but apparently that didn't stop my good friend from landing a job at Goldman. If it happened to your sister it must be true for the entire sample size. Oh how I love anecdotes.</p>
<p>"but Cornell is worth 46 K they charge for the private schools? (hmm...i guess that doesn't apply to you gomestar, does it?) Why should someone pay 46 K to go to Cornell (the size of some public universities) when they can go to a smaller school?????"</p>
<p>and I tell people who have full rides elsewhere to be very careful as $160K in debt is a huge mountain regardless of where the degree is from. Is living in Evanston worth $60,000? </p>
<p>"By the way, if you are looking to go into business, ILR is not the best route to go. Econ/engineering/and perhaps AEM are MUCH better."</p>
<p>completely false. I know many friends in ILR that are going into some big time consulting and banking fields. To give you an idea, Goldman Sachs and Mercer held some private recruitment sessions for ONLY ILR students this past semester ... they didn't do that for any other school/major at Cornell. </p>
<p>"ILR is primarily for those who want to do human resources."</p>
<p>again, no. There is a human resources dept. at the ILR school and it's #1 in the nation, but it's only a small part of the school and only a small fraction of its graduates actually go into HR. Most go into law, FYI. </p>
<p>"And yes, I know this is true because my sister did some HR work for a big company. They recruited econ majors from Cornell for banking and ILR kids for hr"</p>
<p>They wanted to hire people who wanted to work in HR for the HR department??? Crazy!!</p>