Please Help! Im in urgent need of assistance! Syracuse or MSU?!

<p>Hello everyone im a senior in high school rite now.</p>

<p>i got accepted to both Michigan State University and Syracuse.
Initially I planned to go to MSU. So I turned in my residence applciation and fee n everything..however nwo that i think about it im not too sure..
I dont have a REAL preference for either school but on last years gourman report for
HOTEL/RESTAURANT Management MSU was number three and Syracuse was about 7 or 11 or 12.</p>

<p>I really don't know. I know Syracuse is the bigger name and all but for the majors MSU ranked higher..
However what I really wanna do is transfer to Cornell. but thats another story.
I dont have much time left please help!</p>

<p>Or Would it be easier to do really well at MSU and transfer to Cornell? I really dont nkow the curriculum difficulty or much for either school. Just the rankings.. </p>

<p>Thank you guys!</p>

<p>rankings are just rankings. taking aside lower admission rate, bigger name, etc, if MSU has the better program (plus it's cheaper), go to MSU- plus, if you really enjoy it, then you might even consider staying. you never know. if you go to syracuse, you'll get a head start to feeling the fresh cold winters of NY before you decide to transfer to cornell (if you still want to)- I'm not sure where you're from but if you're from NY or around you know what I mean. Or you could have applied to Cornell in the first place. Just a thought. Hope it helps.</p>

<p>I'm also going into Hospitality Management and I applied and got into both Syracuse and MSU.</p>

<p>MSU has a MUCH better hospitality management program. I don't trust the Gourman report because that's just an author if I'm not mistaken.. and he doesn't justify his rankings.. but MSU has been in the top 5 undergraduate hospitality mangement programs for MANY years. even my cornell interviewer recommended MSU for hospitality management..</p>

<p>but i guess it all boils down to what you prefer.
and btw MSU is just as cold as Syracuse.</p>

<p>so do u think itll make a difference in my experience by going to either school?
aha this may make a lot of people go "ehhh?" but
i hear MSU is made up mostly of only white people.
im from an area where it is VERY diverse. with LOTS of asians( im korean).
not that i have any prejudices against any race or anything but honestly speaking i feel a little hesitant. also at syracuse most students are from different places while MSU, everyone is from michigan.ahaha.</p>

<p>but....yeah.. what if i were to switch majors? or i dunno..im so jumbled up right now. i have no time anymore.</p>

<p>thanks for the help guys.</p>

<p>sang. First of all, ignore the Gourman Report. It's junk; just some guy w/ no scientific methodology; no administrator takes Gourman seriously.</p>

<p>First, I don't know much about Syracuse in Hospitality. (I know Syracuse is excellent in communications and journalism) But I do know MSU's school is the 2nd oldest (founded 1927) behind Cornell's (1922), and both these 2 have long been considered the torch bearers for all hotel/hospitality programs.</p>

<p>Second, diversity. I don't know who fed you the "mostly of only white people" slant, but they're dead wrong. It's extremely diverse. It's as diverse as Michigan is a state -- Detroit (city, burbs), farm kids, UP, etc. There are kids from all over the country (all 50 states), but Michiganders dominate; it's a state school. There's also a strong international contingent; the last stats I recall off the top of my head is that 125 countries are represented by students.</p>

<p>Also, I don't think most people would put the 'Cuse on a pedestal higher than MSU. Overall, MSU has a wider diversity of undergrad and grad programs at or closer to the top than Syracuse. And MSU's a heck of a lot cheaper.</p>

<p>cuse cuse cuse!!!!</p>

<p>MSU's Hospitality Business grads dominate the industry, so internships and jobs for grads is a plus. While there are a number of decent and good other schools, when it comes to hotel/hospitality education, it's Cornell, Michigan State, then everyone else.</p>

<p>Wow Sang.. I'm Korean too! We have similar situations although mine is definitely because of money. Although I can go to MSU, my choice was between Syracuse or University of Delaware. My heart was set on UD but I have chosen to go to SU because it is much cheaper for my parents. Financially, UD was just something my parents can not afford... I also had a whole loan issue which is a long story but yea.. SU!</p>

<p>And yes I did hear that it is rather hard to find asians at MSU but if you want to transfer to Cornell, then I don't think it matters where you go as long as you work EXTREMELY HARD wherever you go your freshman year.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>sang, hailey, you're both getting some INCREDIBLLY bad advice. MSU has tons of Asian students and a bunch of Asian student organizations, as indicated by the link, below. MSU is, as I see it, an overall better school than either Syracuse or especially U. Delaware, and especially in Hotel education.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.asianstudies.msu.edu/webprojects/students.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.asianstudies.msu.edu/webprojects/students.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>... and an academic center annex to MSU's premiere international center is named for a prominent donor, Delia Koo, a prominent Asian alum/donor from decades ago. Whoever's telling you MSU's this lilly white haven is giving you some BAD advice.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.isp.msu.edu/news/article.php/36%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.isp.msu.edu/news/article.php/36&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Quincy, I do appreciate your opinion, but MSU is a HUGE school with an undergraduate class of 35,000+ students. The asian-american population at MSU is extremely little. I believe it is not above 10% of the total undergraduate body. But my problem is not the asian population. That has nothing to do with my reason to choose whichever schools I go to. MSU is a wonderful university but for a person who lives in NY, my choice was to either go to Syracuse or UDEL. I have my reasons for choosing UD's hospitality management program over MSU. But it's sad that I can't go to my first choice because of money issue.</p>

<p>hailey, SU's tuition is about $12,000 more thas MSU and UDelaware for out-of-state. Did SU give you a scholarship, grant, finaid of some sort?</p>

<p>I am an in-state resident for NY and my sister attends there. I only have to pay about $3,000 for Syracuse but I am taking the loan they offered me which is about $4,000. If I wanted to go to UD or MSU, I would have to take a loan that's about $15,000+</p>

<p>Hmm your situation sounds remarkably similar to mine too...My HS is 75% asian, in SF. (75%!!! Margaret Cho flunked out of here and goes around making jokes about having attended the US HS with the most azn people ever. XD) Anyway, I'm choosing between SU and the U of Michigan. I'm probably going to SU as an honors student and transfering out in 2 years (hopefully to Cornell or Carnegie Mellon also!) :D I don't know anything about the curriculum difficulty... it's something I'd like to know as well. I'm probably going to overload myself w/ 2 foreign languages.</p>