Cornell or Washington STL?

gomestar
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:51:11 +0000

“There is an important distinction between our views.”
lol, yeah, I know what I’m talking about.

“You still haven’t proven that ILR is a better degree than Econ or Math”
I’m not looking to prove it’s a better degree than econ or math, dumbass. If the OP wants to study pure econ or pure math, then a degree in only econ or math would be the best choice. You can do a bunch of econ and math in ILR, but I still think the regular degree in econ or math is likely better. By applying to ILR, i’m assuming the OP has a bit of a more diverse interest in mind. I’m just trying to prove that ILR is fantastic at placement into top banking/consulting firms. A quick call to career services at Cornell should do this enough though, if it’s that important for the OP, then they should take that upon themselves and not trust all that’s said on a public forum (he/she doesn’t have to take it from me, just call up ILR).

" I have no personal investment in Cornell"
then why should the OP believe what you have to say about ILR’s placement into Ibanking when my personal obersvations as being connected to the school and having seen many friends graduate and enter the job world say that you’re very wrong.

“You are just saying that ILR can get you to the same route, which is almost saying that like Duke Law can get you in a corporate law firm while Harvard Law can as well”
I don’t know much about the placement of law schools (much like you dont know about ILR) so it’s not fair for me to make assumptions for the OP in an important choice like this. I suggest you do the same.

“Your limited case study (a few friends) is not enough to sway me into believing that ILR is a better degree than ECON.”
I just prefer to reference a few friends as I’m close to them - if there’s any doubt just look for the flyer that’s distributed every year that lists some of the companies that ILR grads are placed into. You’ll get the same answer as me, just with more work as I dont think it’s published online.
Besides, your “case study” of a few family member who wern’t ILR majors is a better example?? I hope you dont write college papers with the same logic and resources as you use on this forum.