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1. A pretty smart guy I know leaving Jindal as an LLB student to go to one of the Russell Group unis in London to do an LLB there instead. Not just because of that uni's better "tag", nor because he wanted to practice in the UK, but also because he realised quite early, he said, that Jindal's education provision was unserious.
2. A Jindal student not just using privilege to get a job in India, but being profoundly lazy and unserious even when once they had been given an opportunity (this was someone, BTW, who was a neighbour of ours, whom my mother tutored in Chemistry as favour to the person's mother to prevent them failing 10th grade board exam in that subject).
3. A third Jindal student, this time in one of my LLM seminars, not knowing basic concepts of IHRL that the teacher was treating as assumed knowledge and checking that we should know, sort of as a Chemistry teacher might check if you know basic Maths before teaching you ionic or covalent bonding.
4. The mother of a fourth JGLS student in my parents' acquaintance/friend circle in a metro city saying (based on the kid's experience) that her child's law school jurisprudence curriculum was difficult, when I know for a fact (from other reliable sources and LI discussions about jurisprudence teaching) that that isn't the case.
Seems like these experiences are neither unique nor isolated, from what I have heard. If you are smart enough to navigate your undergraduate degree in a way that makes you look good on paper (ie, you have a good GPA/CGPA/what the British would call "degree classification") (without necessarily working awfully hard at your studies), if you have the right privilege cards to fill the CV with nice stuff (good university-facilitated internships, research assistant positions etc) and if you play your cards right in terms of writing genuinely good personal statements and having professors who give you genuinely good references, it is certainly possible to get into even a strong postgraduate law programme like BCL or Harvard LLM. But many there who possess more privilege than they know what to do with go to pieces when the rubber meets the road. Therefore, their mere presence doesn't tell the full story. It tells me, at least, just that they were smart enough to perform well according to the expectations of their (average) undergrad uni. Their attitudes, the actual knowledge they have, what they end up doing after their fancy degrees (languishing in Britain on their graduate route visa until there's no option but to go back? taking advantage of parental networks to skip the line of competition for Indian (or for all we know even foreign) jobs and not even making the most of those opportunities? or genuinely putting that privilege to good use to make the world a better place?) all are much more revealing, IMO.
Shed the constant negativity. It's not good for your physical or mental health. Think positive and you too will be happy and successful.