Maybe yes, maybe not.
Freshman girls don't want freshman boys, or at least prefer the older ones, so I guess it's hard both ways.

But hey, don't let anyone tell you you cannot do this or that. Don't let yourself think that this may be harder than that.
In fact, it isn't.
When it comes to emotional subjects, there aren't easy or hard ways. What there is is our mind trying to trick us in order to prevent us from doing something that we really want, achieving our primary goal, fucking the hottest girl around our college/university.

There is a standard difficult for EVERYTHING. Ugly girls won't like you if you are C/F, they'll think you're the shit, so you'll have to act kinda AFC.
The more hot the girls are, the more C/F and high value you'll have to display, since they don't want a looser.

Our mind is truly powerful, it fools us in order to prevent us from getting what we want. We are really captives of our own identities, living in prisons of our own creation