<p>Norcalguy- with all due respect, the only reason anyone is being defensive here is because you keep on attacking, and I would like to know why? I have met many of D1’s friends over the years- parties at our place, or various events up at Cornell, and I have rarely ever heard her friends complain about amount of work or their grades. I have heard them talking about applying to graduate schools, interviewing for jobs, parents problems, various social issues(drinking, segregation, diversity, Greek life), but not about transfers, grade deflation, or difficulty of Cornell. I think my kid and her friends were fairly main stream, in speaking with them, I never got the sense it was that big of a problem. My question to you is why it is such a big issue with you? I went to a small LAC around the corner from Cornell, not as highly ranked, but guess what, we complained about our course load and how hard our classes were, that’s what college students do. We got it that you got really good grades at Cornell without doing much work, but it could have been the same whether you went to Cornell or another school.</p>