<p>If you get/got rejected, 99.99% odds says that it wasn’t because you were “over-qualified”. I’m guessing that you heard those rumors only from people who got rejected (and who are trying to justify it to themselves) or from people who heard it from those rejected people.</p>
<p>Cornell, perhaps of all the Ivies, is the most interested in “fit”. If you have a 2400 SAT and a 4.0, but your ECs scream that you only did them for college, Cornell probably isn’t sending you a fat letter.</p>