Northwestern --> Cornell?

I'm a current freshman at Northwestern and am contemplating transferring to Cornell CAS. I know that Cornell places much better on Wall Street but I'm a dual HK-UK citizen (and knowing that OPT/H1B is much harder than before along with the mainland competition) so I'm more interested to know about how differently these two schools place into HK/Beijing/Shanghai or London. From my limited perspective I believe the alumni network in HK is much stronger for Cornell but I don't know how this works either. I don't find Northwestern too challenging (expecting to keep a 3.8ish GPA, or maybe .1 or .2 lower if I do a double major in math along with econ now), so I wonder if that GPA would give me an edge if I stayed, compared to Cornell with grade deflation(?).

Another thing is I'm not 100% into IB (I'd say 30% of me is thinking of IB, 30% Consulting, 20% Management, 20% grad school...pretty much undecided, and these could easily be impossible dreams only too). I come from a middle-class family (hence my internships this summer are unrelated ones, sucks) so they don't have any 'connections' for me, which apparently is a huge disadvantage in Asia so I wonder if Cornell's reputation would give that a boost too.

As for 'whether I would be happy/fitting in' bla bla bla, I'd say I'm indifferent (I don't really hate NU but I have no feelings for it either).

Would any monkeys in similar situations before care to give a bit of advice? Much appreciated :)