ILR gets respect?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Inside Cornell, are the hotel school and ILR people less respected?</p>

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<p>R-E-S-P-E-C-T, noone knows what it means to me. </p>

<p>haha lol i stray, but this question has an easy answer.</p>

<p>No.</p>

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<p>maybe by bitter premeds? </p>

<p>who cares?</p>

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<p>ILRies have the second highest average starting salary of the undergraduate colleges at cornell (after engineering). So, i don't know why anyone should care about the concept of "respect." After all, the money speaks for itself!</p>

<p>(mind you, that ILRies have the second highest starting salary, even after taking into account the good portion of grads who go into really crappy-paying human resource jobs)</p>

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<p>if you mean people walk around saying things like "oh ILR is easy" or "oh if I were in ILR i'd have a 3.7." No, things like that aren't really said about ILR. It's usually AEM and Hotel that people consider the easiest. However, keep in mind that there are some really hard Hotel classes.</p>

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<p>why would aem be considered easy? hotel, not saying it is, but i guess i could see how people who weren't knowledgeable on the curriculum could assume, but aem?</p>

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<p>after the intro courses, ILR really isn't "easy"; it's definitely not for people who don't like reading/writing</p>

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<p>non-scientific pre-professional coursework (AEM, ILR, Hotel, PAM to some extent) is allways going to easier than theoretical or scientific coursework (Eng, A&S).
But yeah, some specific courses in Hotel or ILR can be challenging.</p>

<p>To answer your question though, ILR is not looked down upon by other Cornellians at all.</p>

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<p>One day an engineer and an ILRie met. They got along well. The next day when they were walking past eachother they gave eachother a highfive...low five...take it around. Now that's mutual respect.</p>

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<p>hahhhhaaa. A nice story that surely proves a point =D</p>

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<p>nope. ILR is beloved.</p>

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<p>Some of the most driven, pre-professional students I know are in Hotel. Same goes for ILR.</p>

<p>Many Hotellies will make more money than Physics majors in A&S ever will.</p>