I think if you are good enough to get into Cornell, you are good enough to get in Georgia Tech. The rest is cost. If you are an out-of-stater, they probably end up costing about the same. My understanding is Cornell gives out a lot of financial aids.
But depending high high you are aiming, it may or may not be worth the tradeoffs for you.
It always ranked up (down ;) there with Dartmouth.
Then one level above you have Brown and Columbia.
Then above them you have Harvard and Yale.
And right at the top sits dear old Princeton.
And somewhere off the side in the bushes you have UPenn, which today I learned is an Ivy.