State Flagship vs. Cornell

Yep. People tend not to be grateful for what they have and yearn for what they don’t have, but look at it this way:

Through no achievement of your own, you live in CA instead of NV, and because of that, you get a discount to Cal. If you lived in NV, both Cornell and Cal would cost a huge amount for you. Granted, UNR and UNLV would probably be free or close to it, but then again, they would be to you as a CA resident as well if you had applied there.