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[quote=Anonymous]There are suicides and mental health problems at all the schools but I attended Princeton and do have a theory about the general unhappiness I hear about. The school has always been strong in fields like CS, engineering and econ. Between that and SPIA (public policy) and ORFE (quant finance) its always had attracted a more go-go preprofessional crowd than, say, Brown or Yale. And now that enormous numbers of kids are being forced into those tracks they’re competing against each other and hitting a wall, especially at an academically rigorous school. In other words, the school is attracting more competitive, more results oriented (and as a result more unhappy) kids.

More than grades or any other kind of preparation for college kids need a strong sense of themselves. They need to understand their sense of worth is not dependent on a result and that they can pursue in college what they genuinely care about.

Princeton is strong in so many other majors—I believe kids willing to buck the current of this moment would be richly rewarded there.
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