yeah–this “You should know that Cornell students are big whiners” Is a reliable a data point…Your anecdotes are more valid than mine???. Why dont we agree they just cancel each other out…
FWIW I know a great many Ivy grads–the refrain was it was hard to get in–school was easy. (Yale, Harvard, Penn and Dartmputh) Many went on to grad school where the real work began. The only school I have not heard this about was Princeton.