“I guess it’s not really denied. My daughter said she heard it from Cornell students”
Cornell students have denied it right here on CC in the past. I’m too lazy to go hunt for examples now.
There are a lot of curved classes, and some tough courses. It does not follow that people are refusing to work together or burning people’s homework.
But with 14,000 students it can be expected that a range of behavior exists. Everyone at Cornell is not the same. It could be your daughter heard it from someone there that everyone else there hates.
“about grade deflation”
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/grade_inflation_at_cornell/
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/487570-grade-inflation-or-deflation-p1.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20100214201042/http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Grades/MedianGradeSP08.pdf