Question about Cornell Life

norcalguy
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:16:09 +0000

Exactly. A lot of Cornellians seem to think that they’d actually have a higher GPA if they had gone to Harvard. A lot of Cornellians decry the “grade deflation” at Cornell. Neither are true by any means. There is so much more self-pitying behavior at Cornell than at other places. I don’t hear too many Harvard students whine about how tough their school is. Yet, during my 4 years at Cornell, all I heard was *****ing about the work. Easily, my least favorite aspect of being a student at Cornell. So, yes, I do think Cornell students overestimate their intelligence. Many of them don’t have the objective academic stats to sniff a shot at Harvard.

Ask yourself: do Harvard or Yale or Dartmouth have reputations for grade deflation? Then why is it that Cornell does? Even when its median grades are so embarrassingly high that they are no longer available online? Even when the administration was forced to put the median grades on transcripts to try to stem grade inflation? Why is it that Cornell continues to have the MYTH that its grades are deflated? Because its own students are whiny. They are the ones who keep perpetuating this. Take your 3.4 GPA and shut up about how hard Cornell is.



I was hoping to go to med school, although not doing an engineering major, I was thinking either Biometry and Statistics, or Math. How hard is it to do good in those majors? 24/7 studying or what?



Depends on how smart you are and how efficient you are at studying. Some students study a ton. Some barely studied at all. I studied about 3 hours every night and really studied hard during prelim weeks and it was fine for me.

And seriously dude, this is like your 20,000th question about whether it’s possible to get good grades at Cornell. The answer is YES. And no, no one does 24/7 studying. 90% of the people who profess to “study all the time” are just not efficient studiers. They spend most of their “study time” on facebook and then whine about their crappy grades later on.