Conversely, a significant portion of the students in my class when I was attending university were only there to get a degree & didn't care about anything but the easiest way to get a passing grade.
2001: https://slate.com/human-interest/2001/12/how-to-buy-a-good-c...
2019: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/02/19/cheating-at-u-of-t/
Not to say it's universal, but it's rampant—the view that they're just there to pick up their ticket to an easier life. (if it's accurate, or not!)
However, a sort of consequence of this is you create a sort of inadvertent filter of "normal" people, e.g. the people who passed the classes designed around them.