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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s so strange to me that people expect actual lists of schools that produce happy young people. That’s just not the way college, or anything else in life, works. It’s a lot more complex than that, but ultimately, it helps to raise your kids to value human connection, to be content with less, and not to have overblown expectations of what college is about.[/quote]

I'm the OP. I'm not looking for colleges that "produce" happy young people on an assembly line; I'm looking for schools that [b]foster a sense of collaboration a[/b]nd that offer exceptional mental health resources (which I should have said in my original post). Totally concur that how kids are raised matters. But [b]some schools are pressure cookers[/b]. (I see Swarthmore and U Chicago come up often in this regard.)[/quote]
My DC is at Penn (seas) and has friends from high school at Swarthmore, Princeton, and CMU, all have some variant or math or stem major. They all describe their schools as collaborative yet fun, great new friends, they love it! They also know people there who are always stressed with too much pressure. That is true of almost every school in the T20ish. Heck we know students who think WM is super intense academically yet it gets rated as having happier students than higher ranked ones. It is all in the eye of the particular student. [/quote]

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