<p>Don’t hold anything against Cornell, there are good and bad representatives, just like with ND. There is a student in my program from Cornell and she is very kind, not stuck up at all, and hardly ever mentions where she went to school. I, however, do mention ND quite a bit, but I don’t think that is an awful thing :). There are good people at both schools and annoying people at both.</p>
<p>Case in point, I was in East Lansing a few years back (remember the rainy Brady Quinn comeback) and was at Buffalo Wild Wings where there were some very very drunk ND fans that kept grabbing their waitress and ended up getting kicked out. While I think they were just fans and not alums, it was quite embarrassing to me. All schools have some of these.</p>
<p>Lastly, as to why Cornell is sometimes thought of as being so hard, it may be due to their suicide rate in the past. I have heard that it is better but it used to be high. There were rumors that around finals time they would put up nets on the bridges on campus, but I heard this is not the case. That being said, I kind of wish schools would (remember, I am a suicide researcher, so I am more passionate about it than a lot of people). Anyway, that may be where that came from.</p>