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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is really tragic.

At the risk of sounding callous, my kids (senior and junior at 2 different schools) were recently talking about the kids going to X, Y or Z school.  Princeton came up because they know about 8 different kids who got in from a mixture of privates and publics.  It is the most interesting group of intense, odd and heavily parented kids you could imagine. Their conclusion was that it was a bunch of kids who had little in common with each other except they all stood out as being extreme.

I do think that colleges who select for these outlier kids are going to get ones who struggle with mental health issues at a higher rate than the rest of humanity . Both because mental illness sometimes tracks with brilliance and because the pressure these kids have been under for so many years (from parents and from themselves) is really hard.

I doubt it has anything to do with what Princeton is doing or not doing. These kids arrive with these risk factors. [/quote]

Put a bunch of “extreme” perfectionist kids together and add in grade deflation, and this is what you get.  Many schools have successfully made changes to address suicide clusters, MIT and Penn for example.  It appears Princeton need to do more.[/quote]

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