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<p>This is highly suspicious, because notice that it’s quite possible that neither H, P, nor Y takes this applicant. What then? Cornell could easily end up snatching a perfectly wonderful student that another school just didn’t have room for. By this logic, it should practically be impossible for a 4.0 student with amazing scores to get into the UCs other than LA and Berkeley, 'cept for say UCSD bioengineering or something. That’s not how it works though, especially for Cornell, because such an Ivy League is in a great position to snatch rejects from other schools who’re really just as amazing as accepted ones, but didn’t make the cut.</p>
<p>I’m no admissions officer, and I agree there MAY be some funny business going around, but honestly it wouldn’t seem in a school like Cornell’s interests to reject anyone on the basis of being “overqualified.”</p>