Cornell Hotel School
Hey everyone,
I'm at Cornell in the ILR school and I am thinking about transferring into the Hotel school because I genuinely like the hospitality education. However, my goal is IB/Trading and I know people break into those fields from all the colleges at Cornell, and especially at Hotel but I have noticed that most Hotel students are in Real Estate IB and I do not want to pigeonhole myself in such a specific industry. I would pursue a finance concentration at the Hotel school, and want to be in a more generalized IB division (or trading, I am becoming more and more interested in trading everyday) due to the exit opps to PE/HF (not RE PE, I don't have enough of an interest in RE to pursue a career in that field).
So, with that being said, will I be stuck with RE IB if I transfer into the Hotel School? Also, can students even break into Security Analyst roles (trading) from the Hotel school?
Thanks
Why not transfer into AEM?
It's very competitive and my gpa looks like it will be around a 3.6-3.8 at the end of the year.
AEM, ILR, and Hotel send tons of kids every year to banking... The differentiating factors between those who get it and those that don't are 1) Networking 2) Studying for the Interview. There is absolutely no reason why someone in any of those schools wouldn't be able to get an IB/Trading offer... it's just down to how bad do you want it.
AEM has the most success in placing kids into banking/trading because of the network. AEM kids have an easier time here because they have a sea of baning interns/FT classmates walking in their ecosystem. Much easier to befriend a JPM incoming intern or analyst if he/she is your TA or sitting right next to you in the Mann Library.
Attending the Hotel School won't pigeon-hole you... Yes it would be easier to get into Real Estate Banking with the existing network, but as long as you can prove you have varying interests (e.g. holding a Healthcare Analyst position in a finance club) you'll be fine. The Hotel School actually has the most supportive alumni compared to ILR and AEM.
The things you need to focus on are the following: network with Cornell Alumni starting yesterday, study the IB guides and practice interviewing, read the news, join a business club on campus, and develop real interests outside of "banking" so you still maintain some humanity at the end of the day. But you already know this. Good luck.
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Apparently Cornell's Hotel school is the gold-standard for the industry. Not sure about placement or exit opps into other industries, just commenting that is very highly regarded in that industry. Heard it called the Cornell Mafia because they run stuff
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