http://thetab.com/us/2017/03/10/ranked-the-most-stressed-out-colleges-in-america-62478
Top 10:
- Cornell
- JMU 3.NC State 4.UMiami
- Michigan State 6.UMass Amherst 7.UNC 8.IU 9.Duke 10.UCSB
At several of those, the most stress comes from worrying about whether the keg will run dry before party is over.
I doubt the accuracy of that list. In any case, college is probably the most stress free environment of adulthood regardless of the school.
University at Buffalo should be on the list. Or even all the SUNY schools.
if they think that they are stressed now, wait until their first loan payment is due!
The question is about last week, so it’s pretty clear the results are more closely related to the schools’ academic calendars to any broader, more generalizable truth.
I am not surprised Cornell is on the top of this list. Cornell students rarely smile.
I know 30+ Cornell students, @gmfreedom , and they smile at least as frequently as the hundreds of students I know at other colleges. Utter nonsense.
Where are Caltech, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, MIT and Swarthmore?
Just think for a second. Where is Cornell located? In the middle of nowhere.
The list is ridiculous after #1
Perhaps for the residential college student attending on some combination of parental money, financial aid grants, and scholarships, but perhaps not for the (sometimes non-traditional) student trying to schedule his/her courses at the local commuter schools around his/her jobs that s/he needs to work at to earn money to live on and pay for college.
Not as much as so many other schools–Grinnell? Williams? Dartmouth? Come on now. And if that geographic isolation is a problem, then those students should choose a non-rural school.
Crazy stress at U of Miami?? I must have misinterpreted all those hammocks around the lake.
They probably lost a football game that week or sth., @Hanna 
According to the linked article, the survey question was" How many times have you felt stressed out about school in the last week?"
I remember a number of years ago an affluent high school in my county was reported to be the highest in some survey for alcohol or drug use over the last week; something along those lines… Naturally the local people were alarmed, and there were follow up meetings about it at their high school. It turned out the survey for that school was taken the week the students returned from spring break.
Some time ago on CC a prospective applicant to my alma mater reported that they were turned off because when they visited nobody was out and about chilling, and people looked stressed. Various alums were giving their takes, then finally a current student chimed in with “Dude, you visited during prelim (a.k.a. exam) week . everybody was studying…”
Probably at most schools you can find a week where most students are preoccupied with academics… But you can find other weeks where it would be a lot less the case.
Some people actually prefer colleges in the middle of nowhere. Personally, I love nature and silence and would like to go to a college where there are plenty of hiking opportunities close to campus.
Not at all surprised to see UMASS on the list.
Cornell is in Ithaca, which is really nice. One of the nicer college towns, IMHO. Great food. Arty.
Why isn’t Northwestern on the list?
I echo: Swarthmore, JHU, UChicago “where fun goes to die” and MIT–Google “MIT” and “niche” and scroll down to see how students describe it. “IHTFP” garnered 62% of the answers while “drinking from a firehose” got another 32%
My friends with kids at Harvard and Princeton have described those schools as pretty stressed.
Where fun goes to die is the old UChicago. Things have massively changed. It is now as hot a school as there is with huge ranking jumps.