OP- you wanted advice. You’re getting advice.
if you don’t want to take it- it’s a free country. But transferring from Baruch which has a great reputation for finance in NYC with I-banking (even if you don’t want a job in Ops, or analytics, or risk management, or any number of the functions where the top banks DO recruit Baruch students) in order to get a degree from Cornell’s Hotel school (not sure which doors you think the Hotel school opens for you- certainly not M&A at a top institution) seems to me like a sub-optimal plan.
But after 30+ years of corporate recruiting I’ve been there/done that. Kids make sub-optimal choices all the time. But just don’t make life harder for yourself. A degree from the Hotel school might get you close to real estate valuation deals at a top tier bank but it is by no means a slam dunk, and you will be answering the question until you are blue in the face “Why did you pick the Hotel school if you wanted to study finance and work in I-banking?” Every single interviewer. Every single person you network with. So be prepared to answer with something more robust than “My high school grades were terrible so this was the best I could do”.