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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet every time someone posts in DCUM about how grim and awful the environment is on these elite campuses these days, all their rabid fans scream about how wrong that assessment is and that everything is perfect. [/quote]

Suicides happen on most college campuses, but yes, IMO, they happen more at the pressure cooker schools, and in reality most T25 schools are exactly that.  Those kids have often grown up thru HS expecting to be the best at everything and eventually the pressure to do that can be too much unfortunately[/quote]

I do appreciate you qualifying your comment as “in your opinion”. Because until you can site sources that say suicides happen more at the top 25 schools, then this statement is insensitive to the mental health challenges of affected students. [/quote]

It does happen everywhere, not just Top schools, obviously.  But there is "less pressure" at a school ranked 100 vs a T20 school typically.  The kids at T100 likely did not spend their HS 4 years  carefully crafting their life just so they could get into HYPSM.

Here is my personal awarements/antedotal evidence.  I have one kid attended a T100, one at a T30-40 and I went to a T10. All 3 are in cold, dreary areas.  The T100 and T10 are 60 miles apart.  The T10 had 9+ suicides we knew about in a 5 year period recently--it's a known issues at the school. The T100 I've only heard about 1 suicide in last 10 years.  Have not heard of any at the T30-40 school and cannot find anything with searching (I do hear about a few at the Medical school for that school but not undergrad) This T30-40 school is not known for being a pressure cooker at all, lots of "strivers" who wanted T25 but didn't get in (most were WL/offered sophomore transfer at T25 schools---most applied to and wanted to attend at least 2-3 T25 schools)   [/quote]

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