<p>I love Cornell, and am at Cornell right now for Cornell Days. I cannot wait to start here next Fall but I really think the school needs to look at itself and decide where some things can be streamlined and cleaned up. I have aspirations in business and I've been accepted to ILR but I've been interested in AEM, ORIE, Econ, Hotel and even PAM. While at Cornell I've had a Hotel major tell me not to even look at AEM and how he wished he was in ORIE. I've had someone in Econ tell me I was best off in Hotel. How absurd is this? haha. I know all programs are superb but I really think they add to a bunch of confusion, stress (for students looking for internal transfers), and ultimately may turn away some applicants. There was a great article in "The Cornell Daily Sun" about this very topic today. Skorton says he wants to "restructure", so now is the chance to really clean things up. Moving on from business, whats the deal with 3 different biology majors? Really?! And communications and education in the the Ag school. I just talked to a mother whose son was looking at Cornell but decided not to because there wasn't a communications department. I had to explain to her that it was, in fact, a great program and that it was tucked away and hidden in the Ag school. Ahhh, I love Cornell but a student shouldn't be so stressed out before freshmen year about what classes he should be taking at Cornell to remain in good standing in ILR while still keeping him available (possibly) for a transfer to Econ, AEM, or ORIE (I've ruled Hotel out, because, for lack of a better reason, why do we have an own college specifically labeled for "Hotel". This kind of just sums up my argument).</p>
<p>Thanks for listening, anyone want to send this on to Skorton?</p>
<p>In my opinion, if you do your research beforehand, you’ll know what to expect. I went to Cornell days, and a lot of the questions asked at panels could have easily been answered online. Before choosing my major I visited Cornell’s website and viewed the classes I would have to take, and the opportunities I would have in that major. </p>
<p>Oh trust me, I’ve been on the Cornell website every day this past year. I still feel the school needs to reconsider it’s structure, especially around social sciences</p>
<p>I’m slightly offended, honestly. Every different take on something like business has its own flavor.</p>
<p>Econ, ILR, AEM, ORIE, Hotel, and PAM are very very different flavors on the same fundamental principles.</p>
<p>And the same major in different colleges is extremely helpful. For students who are NYS residents, they don’t have to be in the endowed college of CAS to study Biology, they can pay lower tuition and do Bio in CALS.</p>
<p>Also, every college has their own graduation requirements. If a student wanted to have a more liberal arts background in addition to doing biology, that student should be in Arts, if they wanted more social science they should be in HumEc, if they wanted more science based courses they should be in CALS.</p>
<p>There is a rhyme and a reason for all of it. While you might not agree with it, it is beneficial, and it has been debated for many decades before. And the Hotel school was ruled out because it’s a Hotel school? Really? For students interested in business, especially in the specific areas of restaurant management, hotel management, and service oriented fields, you can’t GET a better education than Hotel.</p>
<p>there are differences, before i came, i also wondered why so many different biology stuff? biological sciences, biology and society, human biology etc… but now i do see some differences! biological sciences is the best one =)</p>
<p>fact of the matter is that i think every student doubts, at one point in time, if they are in the right program.</p>
<p>i am a hotelie and, as anyone who has been following these posts for a while can tell you, i am obsessed with it. but YES there are some classes that i wished i took in other schools and there are other programs im interested.</p>
<p>my room mates (in engineering, human ecology and arts and sciences) say the same thing. as soon as you are at cornell all the different departments and classes become a lot more clear- plus we all take distributive electives so it allows a lot of freedom.</p>