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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I[b] wouldn't visit a second time until you have an acceptance.  That is putting way too much emphasis on what is probably a 5% crap shoot. I would never do that to my kid. [/b]

the weather will be fine.  I went to school in Chicago.  it was cold from Nov until we left in May each year but we all had fun regardless.   Snow and cold becomes a non-event very quickly.  as to the competitiveness?  You can access that once he gets accepted.  [/quote]

This.  My kid applied RD (engineering) and was waitlisted.  And it's bitterly cold.  Read up about suicide bridge on wikipedia. it has its own page: Cornell gorge suicides.[/quote]

Suicide and mental health issues are found in all the top schools. Cornell is not a stand-out. 
This article from last year about Yale mental health is quite sobering. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/11/yale-suicides-mental-health-withdrawals/

This piece from Penn is also quite interesting. Cornell doesn’t even make the list:
https://seaswellness.seas.upenn.edu/research/#:~:text=This%20article%20states%20several%20important,other%20schools%20in%20the%20country.[/quote]

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