It sounds like you want to stick it to the GC. What is the point in that?? Venting here is fine…but wanting to prove you were right and the GC was wrong is beyond ridiculous.
Oh please. My older kid’s counselor actually told him he wouldn’t get accepted to the school where he got his bachelors degree with significant merit aid.
You filled out the application. You were under ZERO obligation to apply ED to any college. If you are smart enough to be a Cornell accepted student, you should be smart enough to understand this too.
No counselor can force a student to apply ED to any college…that is a student decision first and foremost. Your parent had to agree to this application ED as well…and they could have refused.
If you hate the idea of attending Cornell, decline the acceptance. They aren’t going to force you to attend. Take a gap year and apply again next year to Princeton, Yale and Harvard. But do keep in mind that their acceptance rates are in the single digits…which means greater than 90% of applicants do not get accepted and many of those rejected students have outstanding applications.
Or go to Cornell, and love it (surely there were reasons it was on your list beside it being an Ivy). If you hate it…transfer someplace else.