vinny77

Does anybody know where i can find info on the Suicide rates at certain schools, maybe a ranking list/ I am doing a research paper on College students and suicide for my psychology class

socalnick

i think mit has like the highest suicide rate in the nation.

VTBoy

Suicide rates for college students is extremely bad. You are far more likly to take your own life in college than be murdered, or die in some accident.

shelly147

I really doubt the information you want, rates at specific schools, is published anywhere. If the schools don't have to release that, the chances that they would anyway are really low. Also, by publishing rates for "certain schools", you're confusing location with causation. There have been a higher-than-average number of student deaths at NYU lately, but they all had causes that weren't just "the stress of college" (One had a huge fight with her boyfriend, one fell off a balcony because she was drunk, I believe) While the stress of college certainly doesn't help things, its not the only reason people kill themselves. A higher number of student suicides doesn't necessarily mean the school is more stressful (though with MIT supposedly topping the list, its a tempting assumption to make), it more likely means that school happened to have a high number of kids that year who had some big issues for whatever reason (relationship drama, trouble at home) that are beyond the cause of the college. If you're doing a paper on colleges IDENTIFYING depression (whatever the cause) and treating it, that might be a better focus than "the college is causing them to kill themselves!"

Also, I think that the high percentage of suidide-related deaths applies to the entire age range (18-25, I think?), NOT just college students. It just happens to be that during the most turbulent emotional time in our lives, we're at college. That kinda sucks for the college, but what can you do

poison.ivy

I find MIT scary... NYC also has high rates. A girl back in 2001 (2000?) set herself on fire in her dorm rooms... just thinking what was could have been like for her at that very moment....

cool0215

From what I heard, Cornell has the highest suicide rate. Cornell accepts students so easily for ED, including dumb students. Besides, Cornell is the most demanding school of the Ivies. Even harsher than Harvard. There are several valleys around the school campus suitable for suicide. Students used to jump off and just end their lives.

norcalguy

That is actually false. Cornell's suicide rate is below the national average.

Yes, Cornell academics is demanding but it doesn't take much to be "harsher" than Harvard.

kinetic

I heard that, although its curriculum is very demanding, Cornell is not harder than most of the other top schools in the country (such as MIT). I can't say anything about Harvard because I don't know too much about it...........

jenskate1

I have read that college student suicide rates, while a problem, are much lower than suicide rates for the elderly. It is interesting that the media chooses to focus so much more on adolescent suicide rates, given this fact.

poison.ivy

Most elderly suicides are the result of euthansia.

VTBoy

Active Euthanasia is illegal in the United States. Euthanasia that that is done in the U.S is passive which is not considured Suicide.

1212

"Suicide rates for college students is extremely bad. You are far more likly to take your own life in college than be murdered, or die in some accident"

in the US and some oriental nations that holds true for all situations, not just college

proton

just a couple of weeks ago some dude at my school (ucsd) shot himself to death

soccer_guy472

Whoa whoa whoa...Cornell does not take "even dumb ones" or "so many."

Their applicant pool and accepted students, in my opinion, is closest to the University of Chicago. Everyone assumes because they are an Ivy, they suck because they don't hover around 10% acceptance rate. But they DO have 8 different schools, and the acceptance rate you see is the schools together. Take just Arts and Sciences, for example, and it's closer to the other Ivies.

Also, Cornell did have a high suicide rate for a while, but they started a new counseling program in around 2000 I think, and since then they haven't had a single suicide.

And yeah - they are one of the most demanding. As for Harvard - they pretty much give out grades.

ohmadre

BaHk0 - Don't think that is true about Dartmouth.