Current Students

Complete listing of the Hotel School faculty.

Financial aid is administered by the Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment, 203 Day Hall, 255.5145.  Remember, a new financial aid application must be filed each academic year. The deadline to receive aid for the following year is April 15. For further information on additional outside scholarships available to Hotel School students, please go to the Office of Student Services, 180 Statler Hall. Also, if a financial emergency should arise during the academic year, you may be eligible to receive a short-term loan.

Students are required to complete a First-Year Writing Seminar during their first year of study in the School of Hotel Administration. Exceptions are for:

1. those students who scored a "5" on the Advanced Placement examination in English Literature and Composition or English Language and Composition, in which event the seminar is waived, and 3 credits added to the core required courses; and
2. transfer students who had substantial writing courses at their previous college or university, in which event they may receive transfer credit for the seminar.

The official university grading system uses letter grades with pluses and minuses. Passing grades range from A+ to D–; F is failing. INC denotes incomplete, and R is the grade given at the end of the first semester of a year-long course. A grade of W (withdrawn) is automatically assigned when a student is given permission to drop a class after the drop deadline. The grades of INC, R, S, SX, U, UX, and W do not have quality point equivalents attached.

To compute a term average, add the products of [hours x the attached quality points] and divide by the number of credit hours taken.

Cumulative average (averages taken for two or more terms) equals the sum of the products of all terms at Cornell divided by the total number of credits taken. A grade of F carries no quality points but the credits are added to the total credit hours, thereby lowering the average. Incomplete, S/U, and withdrawn grades are not calculated in the grade point average.

The quality point equivalents:

If you find yourself in a significant disagreement with your professor over a grade, you have several options:

1. Meet with your professor and try to resolve your differences.
2. Seek the advice of your advisor to discuss your strategy for resolving the disagreement.
3. Meet with the Dean of Students for the Hotel School, Professor Judith Brownell.
4. Meet with the University's Ombudsman, 118 Stimson Hall, 255.4321.

Every class is offered for a grade option, either letter grade (A—F) or satisfactory/unsatisfactory (S/U).

See: S/U Grades

Some classes are offered for either letter grade or S/U grade, giving students the opportunity to choose under which option they wish to be graded. Students must make the decision on the grade option for all of their classes before the end of the third week of the semester. Check with the Office of Student Services, 180 Statler Hall, for the specific date each semester.

The fastest way to learn your grades at the end of the term is to view them in your Student Center. An unofficial transcript can be printed from the Student Center. Grades generally are available on Student Center the first Monday in January and the first Tuesday in June. (As a general rule, if the first Monday in January is a holiday, grades will not be available until the following Monday.)