<p>I was recently accepted at the Hotel school as well as a number of other places. I'm genuinely interested in the hospitality industry but the more I read about the hotel school the more it seems that NO ONE at Cornell takes it seriously.</p>
<p>It seems like a solid program and it seems that their graduates generally do well for themselves, but I don't want to be made fun of for 4 years because my curriculum includes classes on how to plumb a toilet and make a bed. </p>
<p>Can anyone at CU provide some insight on this?</p>
<p>You would think that it’s a joke but the connections there and the opportunities offered there are absolutely amazing. But yeah while you are still in college not many people take it seriously.</p>
<p>Academically it’s a “joke” by Cornell standards in terms of rigor. Not all majors are created equal. Some aren’t as intellectual or rigorous as others. When Hotelies complain about their homework to other students, they are normally scoffed at. But not everyone goes to Cornell and pursues a degree in physics, so who cares? Professionally speaking, it rivals pretty much any undergraduate opportunity in terms of job prospects and network.</p>
<p>Your curriculum won’t include “plumbing & bedding” for four years but Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Operation, HR, Law, Information Systems, and yes, Culinary Arts. Diverse classes are offered, ranging from fun classes like Wine class and Facility Design to more technical classes such as Securitization and Structured Financial Products and Investment Portfolio Analysis. You may also choose different concentrations: [Concentrations</a> and Minors - Cornell School of Hotel Administration](<a href=“http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/academics/ugrad/concentrations/index.html]Concentrations”>Hospitality Minors & Specializations | Cornell Nolan)
Roughly 40% of graduates pursue their career in banking & consulting, Big names like Goldman. Also, in hospitality industry, they have immense alumni network.</p>
<p>The hotel school is a great program if thats what you are looking for, but yes as a Biology and Chemistry double major I don’t really take hotelies seriously whenever they complain about their workload.</p>
<p>The hotel school is the best hotel school in the world - the heirs and heiresses of large hotel chains have attended (I’m pretty sure a Hilton was there when I was at Cornell), and the graduates regularly make the highest salaries. They are heavily recruited upon graduation…can you imagine graduating and having Marriott ask you to manage their new Hawaii hotel for $200K a year complete with a free penthouse room to live in? That happens…</p>
<p>In terms of course RIGOR, no, it doesn’t compare to the other colleges, but that’s not what hotel is supposed to be. I mean, the AAP college probably isn’t “hard” in terms of critical thinking, but they are learning art, not rocket science. It’s all relative.</p>
<p>You’ll get made fun of for taking classes like wines but AAP kids will get made fun of for never being seen (except on dragon day), AEM kids will get made fun of for being fratty slackers and Ag kids will get made fun of for our appreciation for tractors and cows. It’s all relative and it’s all what makes Cornell so diverse.<br>
The hotel program is the best of its kind. Don’t turn it down because your dormmates in organic chemistry are jealous of your homework.</p>
<p>The type of fun poked at the Hotel School can be viewed as when two brothers pick and tease each other. Hotelies are fun and smart people, who graduate with close connections with their class and alumni. It is a fabulous opportunity.</p>
<p>My daughter’s roommate is a hotelie. She is never in the room! The hotelies take their classes but also have to put in a LOT of hours working in the hotel to gain experience. I think the requirement is hundreds of hours each year. So, they have their classes and they work.</p>
<p>I too have hears it’s the best in the world for this major.</p>
<p>I don’t know the requirement, but 100 hours of work for an entire year isn’t all that bad. There are weeks at Cornell where I’ve probably studied 80+ hours.</p>
<p>^ TKsmom was not referring to studying … she was talking about gaining practical experience working on-top of their studying. </p>
<p>When I was at Cornell (I was an engineer) my best friends were an engineer, a physics major, a hotelie, and an entomologist (bug guy). The women I dated were an engineer, a hotelie, and a HumEc women. One of the best parts of Cornell is the eclectic set of schools and students.</p>
<p>My mother–n-law’s aunt graduated from Cornell’s hotel school back in the day, and she has had a wonderful career working in the best hotels around the world. She has made a great living, held positions of great responsibility, and traveled widely. If you know you are interested in the hospitality industry, you should definitely attend. If the homework load is a little lighter, enjoy it. Those who poke fun are probably just jealous!</p>
<p>The hotel curriculum is about learning tons of soft skills and management techniques (and obviously a good amount of finance/accounting classes). So engineers or what have you will obviously mock those kids for not taking advanced fluid dynamics or whatever, but hotelies do well after Cornell in tons of different fields.</p>
<p>The dynamic in the hotel school is very high school-ish though (they have their own lockers…)</p>
<p>Let’s see: interesting, practical classes. Reasonable workload. Great job at graduation. Yep, sounds awful.
Hotelies take the jokes with a grain of salt, because they love their very structured, practical program and their friendly classmates.
Chuck Feeney, who just gave $350 mil. to Cornell for the NYC tech campus (the largest gift ever given to Cornell), is a Hotel School grad. He also was the one who inspired the “Giving while living” philosophy that Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have adopted. He’s done all right.
More students transfer into the Hotel School than out of it, within Cornell. Many of the kids are very smart–valedictorians, AP scholars with distinction, etc., but their work experience might be more important. By graduation, they’re required to have 800 hours of work experience, so they’re well-prepared for the next phase of their lives. We’ve had 4 family members go to Cornell. The most recent is a Hotelie, and I’m wondering why we didn’t all choose this program!</p>
Diverse classes are offered, ranging from fun classes like Wine class and Facility Design to more technical classes such as Securitization and Structured Financial Products and Investment Portfolio Analysis. You may also choose different concentrations: [Concentrations</a> and Minors - Cornell School of Hotel Administration](<a href=“