<p>“NO problem. It is the essays b/c how would it be possible for me to get rejected by UChicago that isn’t an ivy league? I think UChicago puts way more emphasis on the essay than anything. My stats are:”</p>
<p>Getting rejected by UChicago and accepted by Cornell actually makes a lot of sense. The “Ivy League” is first and foremost an athletic league of schools concentrated in the northeastern seaboard. There are no academic standards set by the “Ivy League” and in fact, many of the schools in this conference are much lower ranked than non-Ivy League schools such as MIT, Cal Tech, UChicago and Stanford. The only three schools that stand out in the group of “Ivy League” schools is HYP, and that primarily due to their large endowments.</p>
<p>Cornell, as an undergraduate institution, doesn’t even make it into the top ten in the US.</p>