Cornell wasn't like this... (at least in the 90s). 3.2 would get you on dean's list. There were freshman weed-out courses to winnow out dumb and lazies. I re

Cornell wasn't like this... (at least in the 90s). 3.2 would get you on dean's list. There were freshman weed-out courses to winnow out dumb and lazies. I remember getting D+ on a paper that nearly gave me a stroke, and professor stood by it. Asked TA to re-grade it and gave me the same grade. Some guy in my dorm got a letter from school with threat of expulsion if he didn't improve his 1.7 GPA, after just 1 tough semester. I once made the mistake of taking a comp sci course as an elective where most of the students were comp sci majors and already new the materials. Never went to so many TA office hours in my life, just to get B+.