<p>@justicebeans Congrats! I was in the same situation (although it was only between NU and Cornell) and I chose NU too! Maybe we’ll see each other this fall!</p>
<p>In response - yes, I do have experience with both Cornell and NU, that is why I commented on those two and not so much on JHU. Cornell is known to be high stress and at one point the “leader” in student suicides (hence the addition of barriers on the suspension bridge). I love Cornell but there is no denying that it is higher stress than many other schools, including NU. Yes, majors make a difference, but overall, I stand by my statement. </p>
<p>Regarding Barnard, I don’t have any real experience with that school other than getting my Masters at Teachers College, Columbia and living in NY, but my friends daughter attended and loved it and had many unusual and fantastic experiences through that college.</p>
<p>Why all the hostility? I have experience and I have an opinion, isn’t that what is being asked?</p>
<p>The so-called “hostility” was a request for clarification. Because you were repeatedly saying disparaging and prejudicial stuff , the accuracy of which i was skeptical, with what was in my opinion probably no actual basis whatsoever.</p>
<p>So i asked you to clarify and give your actual experience with respect to the programs at these two universities, so all readers could best judge for themselves your actual basis for making these assertions. Rather than having some of them possibly accepting something as fact that was perhaps in actuality baselessly pulled out of an internet poster’s behind.</p>
<p>Thank you for clarifying, Now readers can judge for themselves about your experience and put your opinion in perspective, as they see fit.</p>
<p>BTW as for suicides, these events are very public, and publicized, there because those so inclined choose to plunge off public bridges, in full site, instead of offing themselves in their rooms as they might elsewhere, However the actual talled rate of such events there is at or below average.
The barriers were in direct response to an anamolous cluster of such tragic events that occured several years ago,following four consecutive years where no such events occurred whatsoever. Of course all universities and institutions everywhere should do whatever they can do reduce such tragedies. </p>