<p>My son got this offer at Cornell in 2011. They didn’t have to report his test scores in their freshman class, and he got guaranteed admission the next year with a 3.5 GPA at another 4-year university (no community college allowed). Win-win? Hardly. Guess what happened? He loved his second choice so much, he stayed and turned them down. Cornell’s loss. So this can and does backfire.</p>