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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year one of the kids was a professor's kid who grew up in Ithaca.

It's the demographic, it's a mental health crisis that's not unique to this campus.  All the selective schools have kids who are struggling.  And staff as well.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/head-mental-health-services-university-pennsylvania-dies-suicide-n1052156

It's really tedious for people to always bring this up about Cornell.  Seriously, just stop with the fake concern.  Just take it off your list.[/quote]

I agree that it's the demographic. This generation is arriving at college with lots and lots of mental health issues, often previously untreated. 
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And the pressures of 4 years of HS, preparing to do anything and everything so you gain admission to the "best college" is not helping.  These kids have often never had a "failure" in anything, so when you arrive on campus and get a B or C (or worse) in a course they are not prepared to deal with it, and often times the message from home is "be perfect" so they don't feel supported.  Add in alcohol and hazing (in some cases) and the struggle to fit in and be perfect is too much.  
The pressure [b]we[/b] are putting HS kids and then college kids under is not good
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Bingo[/quote]

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