I don’t think so. I studied at Suffolk and Northeastern for a few years. Partied with some Harvard kids. I’ve lived in New Haven county my whole life otherwise. There are way more schools in the area such that Harvard and MIT don’t really get special treatment throughout the city. Like it or not, New Haven owes most, if not all, of what it is today to Yale which leads to the inflated entitlement of the student body.

Not in my experience but it's all subjective.