Could schools be secretly considering demonstrative interest?

The issue is that admissions and the institutional reporting department (preparer of the CDS) don’t always communicate well, and even if they do, they sometimes do things differently, like calculating GPAs.

For example, Cornell’s CDS says level of interest not considered, yet they are tracking campus visits at the applicant level. What I don’t know is whether student’s who visit campus have any advantage in the admissions process.