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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You are callous. Shame on you.[/quote]

NP.  You're all on a thread about the death of an Ivy kid that none of you know.  Many of you are only here because it's an Ivy kid.

Parents, like myself, are questioning how our society produces top young achievers.  There's no question in my mind that the process fosters anxiety.  And that there are selection rewards for being an outlier (having an extreme talent, conveying through writing an unusual perspective or voice, etc.).   We all know that a lot of interesting, intense people can be anxious and have wide emotional swings.

I don't find the person's comment callous.  Just their family's experience.  [/quote]

Oh please. Posters are making many painful assumptions about a kid they know nothing about. [/quote]

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