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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the Princeton Review, W&M has the "happiest" students.  The rumor that they have the highest suicide rate still exists but isn't true.  My DS, who is a student at W&M, says that his classmates are really, really smart but they are also helpful and supportive and not cut throat and competitive with each other.[/quote]

Did they fix their suicide issue?[/quote]

The suicide rate in the U.S. is now about 14 per 100,000 people per year.  If you apply to a school with about 6,500 undergraduates like W&M, you would expect about 1 suicide per year.  There was an article in the Washington Post that said there have been something like 13 in 45 years.  That would be only 30% or so of the average.  It wouldn't surprise me if almost all colleges are actually well below the national average over time.  The suicide rate among veterans is about 30 per 100,000 per year, which is higher than average, but it is actually much, much worse than that among younger veterans compared to the same age non-veterans.  Beyond that, the issues related with the recent increase in the rate tend to be related to substance abuse, health, jobs, etc.  Those are more typically post-college or post-high school issues.  [/quote]

I think it would be more telling to get the number of students that have attempted suicide. That to me is a better measure but probably an impossible number to get from a college.[/quote]

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