I too meant no disrespect to Cornell and I agree with @Legacymom.
If kids and their parents bothered to look beyond the “ivy name” they would see there are considerable differences among each of the ancient 8 – so much so that IMHO, a student who applies to all of the ivies does seem to be trophy hunting, or at least trying to get their name in all the newspapers. One girl on CC this year even admitted that the only reason she applied to all 8 ivies was to see if she could do what Kwasi Enin did (she was accepted to 6 out of 8). Among certain kids, it’s quickly becoming “the thing to do.”
As a side note: It’s expensive applying to colleges! If you add up the cost of the application fee, official SAT/ACT submission fee, CSS Profile fee, it costs somewhere between $100 to $125 per school. Applying to all 8 ivies plus target and safety school’s add’s up. My kids applied to college 5/6 years ago, and at the time, I made this observation: Due to the cost, middle income to wealthy parents limited the number of college’s their student applied to, which precluded most from applying to all 8 ivies. The kids that tended to apply to 15, 20, 25 colleges, including all the ivies, were the student’s that received fee waivers, as the cost of doing so was just too prohibitive.