<p>My counselor advised me to e-mail Cornell and tell them they're my first choice. Good idea or not? Thanks.</p>
<p>I don’t think it will have any effect. If you get waitlisted, then maybe.</p>
<p>Well, they way you’ve worded it in your post, it would probably be unproductive. Cornell reports that an applicant’s interest is “not considered” in admissions (<a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000464.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000464.pdf</a>).</p>
<p>And the way you’ve worded it in the title of the thread, it would be just plain presumptuous! But kind of amusing, if you caught an admissions officer in a jovial mood.</p>
<p>It would never hurt to do so but yes you have to put in the right context for that message</p>