<p>I think you have some homework to do … do a googel search on college suicide rates and you will find even with the rash of suicides this fall Cornell’s suicide rate is below average for highly selective schools … even a search on CC will help as there were 2-3 threads on the topic this past fall … if your Mom will not be calmed by the real data you have a pretty uphill battle. (PS - what you will find is that Cornell’s suicide rate is better than average and the school has been mentioned many times for it’s proactive work to trying to address this issue … it hd been 2-3 years since the last suicide before the rash this past fall).</p>