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I think that going to nova and missing dorms and college away would be misery.  There is more to college than classes. The social life, connections and growing up away from home are very important.  If someone went to nova for two years and then transfers to UVA they will be isolated and find the social life difficult.  [b]UVA is almost as difficult an adjustment [/b]and depressing as WM. [b]Check the suicide rates.[/b]  I think the Nova transfer saves money but cost the students a lot in other ways.[/quote]

W[b]here do you do find the "suicide rates?"
Also, where do you find the "suicide rate" for transfers vs freshman[/b]?[/quote]

Fake news.  While W&M has had some recent issues with suicide, UVA has not. https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-william-mary/1738139-suicide-at-william-mary-feb-3-2015.html[/quote]
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Perhaps less fake news than urban myths. [/b] I've read that most colleges don't even track it, so I'm not sure you can say there is a reliable rate per institution.  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-public-colleges-dont-track-suicide-report/   There have been a couple of studies that say the rate is about 7.5 per 100K college students, which is actually lower than the rate for non-college students in the same age group.

W&M had three suicides in one year but 11 in the 41 years prior to that.  With a national rate

I would imagine that it could be difficult joining halfway through college, but it happens all the time and both UVA and W&M have agreements with community colleges, so I would think this is a common, supported thing.[/quote]

Fake news per UVA.  Cornell and W&M have had problems.  This is watched and studied.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_gorge_suicides[/quote]

Not based on facts.  As this article shows, MIT and Harvard have had higher recent rates than Cornell.  And as the article cited before shows, many schools don't track (or don't want to track).  https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/16/suicide-rate-mit-higher-than-national-average/1aGWr7lRjiEyhoD1WIT78I/story.html

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The national suicide rate is about 14 per 100,000 population per year.  Based on that, I would doubt that any Virginia public university is anywhere close to the average over time.  It would mean about 5 per year on average at VT, GMU, and VCU,  over 3 per year at UVA and over 1 per year at W&M.  I'd bet all of them average lower than that (although may have years that are higher, of course).   The veteran suicide rate is over 30 per 100,000 sadly.[/quote]

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