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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  Dartmouth seems to have a lot of student deaths from substance abuse & suicide.

Neighbor's child is now a junior or senior at Dartmouth.  Complained during the first two years that the student deaths were too much to bear at times.   Some occurred on campus, some occurred off campus.[/quote]

Not really.   Dartmouth usually has had one student suicide every year or two.   That spiked during the pandemic - there were three Class of 2024 freshman suicides during the first year of the pandemic (one of which was at home) -- related not to fraternities but isolation -- and a few in the subsequent years.  The campus was outraged, the administration relaxed its COVID policies, and increased mental health resources.   It made an impression on students there at the time, as well it should have.  Might have drawn more attention than it would have in a larger or more urban school.

Absent more data -- and again, prior to the pandemic the suicide rate among Dartmouth students was low -- not sure the (unique) pandemic experience/policies, or anecdotal reports about one school, say anything particularly meaningful about how one college's suicide rate compares to other's (eg Princeton also had an uptick in suicides in 2022).  But don't let that stop you.   [/quote]

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