<p>what are some of the reasons that students commit suicide in college?</p>
<p>Ask Cornell University. ._.</p>
<p>^Or Elizabeth Shin. But she’s dead so you may need to find a psychic to do that.</p>
<p>The reasons vary amongst individuals.</p>
<p>im just asking for some general reasons</p>
<p>I think that stress can be identified as an aspect that could lead an alternative individual to commit that action.</p>
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<p>Actually, there was a thread about this in college life. Cornell has one of the lowest suicide rates of all the Ivies. </p>
<p>Anyway, most of the time it’s stress and clinical depression that leads to suicide, whether it is at a university or anywhere.</p>
<p>They should filter out those who seem high strung through the admission process. A lax’d personality with lower grades will clearly show on the essays.</p>
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<p>Cornell’s overall rate might be low, but I think I read this year has been rough on them. I think they had three deaths in the past month. That’s probably what HopefulEagle was referring to.</p>
<p>Does people committing suicide in college have a lot to do with college? I mean people of all ages commit suicide, and some people are at college, so logically some people at college commit suicide.</p>
<p>i heard NYU has the highest suicide rate. don’t quote me on it though</p>
<p>Stress and the view of a bridge directly in front of you.</p>
<p>It is a social epidemic. College kids are impressionable and overly dramatic. One ******* jumps into a gorge (lot of picking on Cornell, yes?), then they all have to do it. Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this phenomenon in his book called “Blink”.</p>
<p>Cornell’s suicide rate isn’t even that high… It’s just that bridge makes people say stupid rumors about cornell.</p>
<p>two girls have commited suicide at my brother’s junior high this year! it’s not just a college thing.</p>
<p>Yeah. A kid in my fourth grade commited suicide, and so did one in my seventh. I think their “girlfriends” rejected them lol…</p>
<p>I guess it has a lot to do with your self perception and how susceptible to stress you are. Some people don’t have as high a tolerance for stress, and so they allow their self worth to be compromised, while others are a little less vulnerable. The thing about stress is that it builds up like hell, so people with a ton of stuff going on just have the stress piled on and on, and there’s no where else to turn to</p>