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<p>No offense to your cousin, but that’s the kind of “I heard” stuff that is really unfair.</p>
<p>If that is an issue, you owe it to Reed to call them and ask for the real data. Based on a large survey of suicide rates at Big-10 schools I’ve seen, a “normal” suicide rate for a school Reed’s size would be, on average, about one every ten years, keeping in mind that with numbers that low, you could get some fluke statistics if you looked at any particular short time frame of a year or two.</p>