@afamelas I’d say your chances of getting into Cornell vs Princeton are really not affected by the Stanford decision. When they say that the decision is not a reflection of your academic record, they actually mean it. The biggest thing that admissions officers are concerned with is building a well-balanced class. This means that you may have been the perfect candidate but you could not have been accepted being the class of 2020 is being pieced together differently. As my college counselor likes to say, “You can’t have a football team with just quarterbacks.” You could submit the exact same application to an equally selective college and get in. So yes, you do have a better chance of getting it at Cornell… because their admit rate is higher than Princeton’s.