Schooled but Uneducated: Lowering Standards at the Ivy League

Cornell students are not as happy as Sisyphus

Sep 16, 2024

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We must picture the Cornell University student as we picture Sisyphus endlessly rolling a heavy boulder up a hill—except the Cornell University student is raising his, her, or their GPA so at the end of four years they will have the highest GPA for the least amount of work.

Because rigorous and hard courses only get in the way of graduating with the high…

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Randy Wayne

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences at Cornell University. I call myself a natural philosopher as I see no real divisions between the scientific disciplines. My research is on the nature of light.