<p>[The</a> 50 Most Stressful Colleges - The Daily Beast](<a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-04/the-50-most-stressful-colleges/]The”>The Daily Beast: The Latest in Politics, Media & Entertainment News)</p>
<p>That ranking places them as number one. Interesting, especially considering how everyone likes to say it is so “laid back.” Maybe some truth to “duck syndrome.” Thoughts?</p>
<p>People act laid back, but are still very focused on their work. If they expose how stressful they are it will expose their weakness as well as just exacerbate it. Engineering is tough. At a school where everyone wants to be really successful, a large workload + pressure = stress. My opinion.</p>
<p>That article is idiotic. Read its methodology and you’ll agree. It’s like stats from a poetry major. </p>
<p>Basically, the better the college and the more it costs the higher the score. 35% is cost (ignoring financial aid), and 55% is how good it is. 10% is crime rate as compared with peer institutions, and Stanford has no significant crime problem.</p>
<p>The article is idiotic, as I’ve said.</p>
<p>Also, from this article, one can derive that the best colleges are most stressful. Since the best schools are expensive, it’s just the slightly higher cost of Silicon Valley that gave the Farm the win. And the rest comes from the fact that the best schools are… the best.</p>
<p>Lol article=FAIL.</p>
<p>That article is idiotic. Read its methodology and you’ll agree. It’s like stats from a poetry major. </p>
<p>Basically, the better the college and the more it costs the higher the score. 35% is cost (ignoring financial aid), and 55% is how good it is. 10% is crime rate as compared with peer institutions, and Stanford has no significant crime problem.</p>
<p>The article is idiotic, as I’ve said.</p>
<p>Also, from this article, one can derive that the best colleges are most stressful. Since the best schools are expensive, it’s just the slightly higher cost of Silicon Valley that gave the Farm the win. And the rest comes from the fact that the best schools are… the best.</p>
<p>Lol article=FAIL.</p>
<p>Do many people actually read The Daily Beast, let alone consider it credible?</p>
<p>Sorry for the double post, but I want people to know the methodology before they comment. It still may be the most stressful, but it might not be. This article means literally nothing.</p>
<p>Thanks for pointing out the methodology. I was wondering myself how they decided to calculate this blatantly skewed data…</p>
<p>the methodology is completely stupid</p>
<p>just for having a great & competitive engineering program, they assume the school is more stressful</p>
<p>I completely agree that the methodology is probably stupid. When I saw the methodology, I questioned it. I still posted though because the list isn’t completely ridiculous. I don’t think the results come out laughable or entirely implausible.</p>
<p>Yeah the article is garbage. Cornell is rank 17 and they already had something like 6 kids commit suicide this year.</p>
<p>i dont think the entire article is stupid.
those 50 are certainly among the most stressful, but in determining the particular order, the differences are minute and the methodology allows for inaccuracies in determining actual “stress”</p>
<p>Stanford is pretty stress-free compared to her peer institutions. Sensibly, colleges don’t post statistics. From my limited experience, relatively speaking:
HYPSM</p>
<p>MIT = highest suicide/depression rate (or up there). They even mentioned it on the tour.</p>
<p>Harvard = high suicide rate, some too competitive (i.e. they were “bred for Harvard”).</p>
<p>Princeton = Senior/junior papers, isolated town, and grade deflation = high stress</p>
<p>Yale = New Haven is a stressor to some. Killing of woman on wedding day led to, obviously resulted from, stress.</p>
<p>Stanford = heard of the “duck syndrome,” yet the kids I know that go there say that’s false. Last suicide I know of the occurred over three years ago, and it was someone who had spent far more time at MIT than Stanford (5 years to 1)…</p>
<p>But yes, those 50 are probably the most stressful, because that’s the nature of being the best in your field.</p>
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<p>I trust the Princeton Review more. Apparently, Stanford is 4th happiest of all universities in the U.S.</p>
<p>One of the main reasons Stanford is the #1 “dream school” is that it involves virtually no compromises. There, students enjoy superb academics, undergraduate-focused teaching by outstanding, supportive faculty within a top national research university setting, and very high quality of life by every metric: great climate, fine housing and good food, beautiful, safe campus/surroundings–and the upbeat vibe that all those good things sustain in the very diverse student body. There is an inherent “stress” level for students attending any tip-top college just by virtue of the caliber of work expected of them, but at Stanford circumstances are unusually conducive to handling that stress well. Result: whereas students at Stanford’s peer colleges often report having a “love/hate” relationship (at best) with their colleges, Stanford students usually report a love relationship with theirs. : )</p>
<p>Excellent post, zenkoan. What you say jives well with our perceptions after visiting all these schools.</p>
<p>“Stanford is #1 — in stress.
Huh? Did everyone forget to apply sunscreen?”</p>
<p>Lol</p>