According to this website, https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/comprehensive-list-of-target-schools, Cornell is a top 10 target school for IB. I was curious to whether this is specifically referring to the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management or Cornell in general (meaning you can be in any college within Cornell). If it is the latter, then what purpose does it serve to study in Dyson (especially given its acceptance rate)?
For one thing, studying in Dyson serves the purpose of learning the course material taught at Dyson. This purpose is of value to someone who wants to learn that material, more than curricular options at other schools they might alternatively choose to attend.
What has been posted on CC in the past is that recruiting is open to students from all the colleges. Indeed, we have had CC parents posting whose kids have gone on to IB from CAS and from ILR.
I’ve been out of that business for ages, but when I was in it, the firms expected to hire “the best of the best”. To get called for interviews, and second interviews, there has to be something they see that indicates that you might be included in that group… The fact that you survived a single-digit acceptance rate might count as one preliminary indicator of that. Though in itself this would not be sufficient.You have to be outstanding. And demonstrate that you want to be there. And you have to “fit”.
If you are not attending such school you have to demonstrate that you are among “the best” some other way. It’s less automatic that you are sufficiently outstanding, sufficiently interested, and that you “fit”. (To the degree that said “fit” plays some role in Dyson admissions, which it might). But it has been done, obviously.
I believe I’ve read that there are some Dyson only recruiting functions. They also might have better access to relevant summer jobs.
So while recruiting may be open to all, and not just in a lip service way, it may be the case that the Dyson students do have a bit of an inside track, as it were.
It is not limited to business school students. IBs look for relevant courses and GPA. There are students from engineering, hotel, IlR, CAS…who have gone into IB. When my older daughter was interviewing, as a math major, the recruiters were a bit more forgiving on STEM student’s GPA than AEM’s (easier major relatively).
I don’t see any reason to go to AEM instead of CAS or CoE. For that matter, if you want to get a business degree, you can do just as well at Hotel.