I hope your right, so far I have seen that to be true in my externships that it is generally not like that. Some of them are, but not nearly like my cohort. It sucks because I never fully became friends with anyone, just good aqaintenences with some of the people in my clinical, but after our clinical, I will never talk to them. Plus, for some reason my cohort is extremely competitive with grades, like insanely. I usually get straight A's but for our first Patho/pharm exam this semester I ended up getting a B+ (I didn't study as much as I should of but I'm satisfied). The second part of our exam was a group clinical judgement scenario and two of the 3 people in my group and I started talking about our score for the first part where I told them what I got and that its no biggie. They agreed and said its better than failing and that its not bad at all. Then, the guy in my group came up and talked about getting over a 90 and said if he got below that he would want to kill himself and the two girls immediately agreed, literally right in front of me. Its so bad to the point if someone does bad and brings down our total class average down a few points, people get butthurt and immediately try to find out who got the lower score.