<p>Hi...i'm a junior, and I am sort of interested in the Hotel School at Cornell...(I am also interested in the College of Human Ecology, but that's a different story :) ). If i were to be accepted to the Hotel School, I think I would want to concentrate on management/administration or law. </p>
<p>However, when it was time for us high school juniors to pick our classes, I chose IB Higher Level History over of IB economics (All 7 of my classes are IB). At the time, I wasn't interested in policy/economics...BUT NOW... I am slowly finding that I would like to pursue in hotel management...but like i said, I am NOT taking economics. I know, I know...it's regretable that I didn't choose economics, but hey...people's interests change over time!</p>
<p>Anyways my real questions/concerns are:</p>
<p>If I were to get accepted, will this lack of economics credit be a HUGE disadvantage for me? Or will it still be OK if i start my 'learning of economics' at Cornell?...and take courses in economics/policy? Do you think I will manage, despite the fact that I am not taking any economics classes in high school?</p>
<p>I doubt it. Or you could always go the college credit route? I took Macroeconomics Principles at ASU over the summer and it not only will prepare me exceedingly well for AP Econ (when I'm going to be ridiculously lazy as a second semester senior) but also pushed me farther on the path toward business.</p>
<p>And I would totally be fascinated by napkin folding! Also I hear that certain food tasting classes are mandatory for the Hotel School... sounds like a good time to me. :-)</p>
<p>I spoke with a father of a Hotelie last night. His son will be graduating this year and has a job lined up in real estate finance. The dad is quite impressed with his son's education at Cornell, but notes that the son was not as impressed with the operations (i.e. napkin folding and front desk pleasantries) courses as with the hard business numbers courses. Feels his son got a good business background -- and has the job lined up to show for it!</p>
<p>Honestly, every school has its different reputation. Hotel school bakes cookies, ILR never studies, Humec sews clothing, architecture lives in Rand and never comes out...ever. Arts and science= arts and crafts and engineering is just all awkward nerds who lack the social skills to do anything. </p>
<p>It's just pathetic how people sterotypicalize all these schools like that. I know PLENTY of hardworking hotelies and at least one person that defies all the steroypes. Bottom line, hotel school gives you a good paying job when you graduate and a good life that's planned out to you (if you choose to take it). Does it really matter what other people think. </p>
<p>And dont apply to the hotel school b.c. you think its the easiest to get in. If you dotn have any hospitality experiences and just apply there to transfer, they can sniff you out in a second (at least from the interview, unless you are master of b.s.)</p>
<p>seriously. i hate when people apply to the school that is just easy to get into, and they have no passion towards the industry. it takes a person's spot away who has a passion and wants to commit to the hotel industry...</p>
<p>there are professors that take wine tasting, and it has the highest rate of failure out of any other class. Most likely because it's a bunch of seniors who don't care anymore about grades taking the class.</p>
<p>no anyone can take that class. they get a special permit from the state of ny to let underaged students drink. and they flunk because they think its a slacker class, when wine tasting has SOOOOOOOO SOOOOO much more depth than what people believe. trust me, im french =)</p>