<p>Hey so here are my options: </p>
<p>Wharton, WashU Olin (full tuition scholarship), or Cornell Hotel Administration (40k financial aid). Which should I choose?</p>
<p>WashU for the money issue, and Olin is actually good.</p>
<p>Cornell and WashU come out to the same. Still WashU?</p>
<p>Wharton is the best… hands down…</p>
<p>Second place?</p>
<p>Well, because you choose two very different areas. So it depends whether you love to learn bussiness or hotel administration. If bussiness, I still suggest WashU, Wharton is awesome but not worth that much of money</p>
<p>anyone else have advice?</p>
<p>If the price tag is the same with Cornell and Wash U then it comes down to where you are most comfortable a small NE college town or St Louis. Personally I would not pass up Cornell BUT with the Olin you are in good hands. Think more about where you fit then prestige because they are comparable.</p>
<p>Go to WashU tuition free for your undergrad. Then work for a few years and apply for Wharton or Harvard for your MBA. Problem solved!</p>
<p>I would recommend Cornell since the Hotel school is one of a kind, and much cheaper than Wharton. The Cornell alumni network seems substantially stronger than WashU’s (feel free to dispute this), and the prestige factor doesn’t hurt. </p>
<p>Plus, girls in the hotel school are pretty hot.</p>
<p>Anyone else have any advice between Cornell Hotel and WashU Olin job opportunities?</p>
<p>Well. Wharton is fantastic. Its up to par with HYP. I would attend regardless of money issues-or would at least heavily consider it. WashU’s Olin school is not even close to wharton- not by a long shot. Still it is a great university with a good reputation, and the fact that you have a full scholarship makes it very enticing. Cornell’s school of Hotel Administration? Kind of a dead end field choice to me, but I don’t know much about the school. I would NEVER give up an opportunity like wharton. Consider everything before making your choice. You hear all these arguments saying that debt outweighs the benefits reputation. But in this case, there is not enough debt you could incur that could possibly drown out the reputation of the best business school in the world. Go to Wharton. As for job possibilites. Wharton= Job on the spot.</p>
<p>P.S: I’m going to Cornell as an AEM (business) major. ^.^</p>
<p>If I go to the Cornell Hotel School but dont really like it…is it possible/easy to transfer into AEM?</p>
<p>“Cornell’s school of Hotel Administration? Kind of a dead end field choice to me, but I don’t know much about the school.”</p>
<p>Actually, turns out that’s not the case. At least it wasn’t in my day. Hotelies all seemed to have multiple job offers lined up at graduation and a lot of them seemed like really good jobs (Hilton hotels management training program at the Aruba Hilton, stuff like that). One of the most successful guys I knew from my undergrad graduated from the hotel school, runs some pretty well-known restaurants.
I think some of them leverage their sort-of-business training to land financial services jobs, as well. I think they also have a path to get into real estate development. They do pretty ok, it seems. A while ago I looked up one guy I knew who went there, he was on faculty at an MBA school.</p>
<p>I’m not too sure how easy it is to transfer. The business program at Cornell is selective (11% last year.) Transfers might not be possible. You would probably have to call, and figure out for yourself. Also, it’s a 4 year program, so if you transfered after the 1st year, you waste time taking courses you could have taken the year before. Its a solid program- #10 u.s rankings and reviews, #8 business week. Ranked higher than Olin. Nonetheless, Wharton will always reign supreme in business. Also. I don’t understand how you got 40k in aid from Cornell, and not the same amount in Upenn. They have very similar aid.</p>
<p>“You would probably have to call, and figure out for yourself.”</p>
<p>Or, maybe post on the CC Cornell subforum, maybe someone there has some insight.</p>
<p>I am having difficulty understanding your original post as regards pricing.</p>
<p>Does $40k Financial aid mean $40k over four years, or $40k per year, meaning you come up with the remaining $15k COA?</p>
<p>Are Wharton and Cornell both $40k/yr. aid?</p>
<p>Is the Aid 100% grant or is there loan included? Same question for WashU.</p>
<p>In this day and age, I would not pay full-fare for Wharton. Cornell and Wash U are very different environments. Have you visited all or any of these schools?</p>
<p>40 k per year financial aid from cornell. 40 k tuition scholarship (rodriguez program) from WashU</p>
<p>Can anyone describe the differences between the WashU and Cornell environments? Specifically Olin business school and Cornell Hotel.</p>