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<p>I never said the classes were easy. I gave the stats: which is that the average Cornellian has a B+ average. It’s as simple as that. The median grades for most of the courses are in the B+ range. To you, it’s as if I insulted the integrity of the Cornell degree by saying that. If that’s how you feel, then it is YOU that’s denigrating Cornell. I personally think a 3.4 GPA is just right for a top school. Most of the other top schools have similar averages so clearly they feel that sort of grading is appropriate too. You keep saying that Cornell is harder than Columbia or Princeton. Where is your evidence? I’m guessing you did not major anything that requires logical reasoning. If they have smarter students with similar grading, then they are HARDER than Cornell. You don’t need to have gone to the Ivy Leagues to reason that out.</p>
<p>Your son might have a couple of friends that went to top universities. I have 130 classmates in grad school that went to top colleges. Trust me, the kids at Princeton or Harvard or Yale are not twiddling their thumbs and earning A’s. They work as hard as your son, if not harder. What is pompous to me is suggesting that someone at Princeton doesn’t have to work as hard as someone at Cornell when there is zero zip nada evidence that shows that’s the case. Pompous is thinking your son represents the pinnacle of hard working college students. </p>
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<p>I’m glad you and momma-three are such understanding parents. When I told my dad about Cornell’s “grade deflation” after my GPA dropped for 3 consecutive semesters, my dad just laughed and said it was probably my studying habits. He was right.</p>
<p>If you’ve gone to Cornell recently, you have some insight on this. If you’re just the parent of a Cornell student, here’s a hint: Cornell students like to whine.</p>