Cornell Hotel School or Cornell CAS Econ?

I just externally transferred into the Cornell Hotel School this year. I'm currently a first-semester sophomore, and I want to break into finance. I know that there is a solid career path from the hotel school into real estate, but I'm not really sure how interested I am in real estate (not sure what that entails). However, I am very interested in the stock market, and have been doing some trading on my own. I was wondering if I should transfer into econ in CAS (perhaps that might be better). I am also thinking about possibly majoring or minoring in computer science (because technical skills are really valued now).

I'm also not really that interested in hospitality, but I understand that transferring into CAS will make me have a liberal arts curriculum and I'm not sure if I'm up to that either. I might like some classes, but you know what I mean.

Is the Cornell Hotel School looked down upon outside, considering there is AEM and CAS Econ?

Im also worried about that the Hotel School narrows my career opportunties while econ seems to be much broader.

So these are my options right now:

Hotel Major w/ Computer Science or Information Science Minor CAS Econ/CS double major (if possible, definitely have to do some academic planning) CAS CS Major w/ Econ minor (or vice versa)

I'm really confused with what I should do academically. Please give me some advice. Thanks!

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