@compmom you didn’t have a few hours to read the entire thread?! 
Actually thanks to @eyemgh and others here, my D applied EA to WPI as it does sound like a good fit for her in so many ways.
Yes, I read about that at WPI, it is so heartbreaking. I’ve been reading a lot of student newspapers for the schools my D is interested in, and not surprisingly I’ve seen a lot of news about suicides and mental health distress across most campuses, but that does seem like an unusually high number for such a small school. We are trying to understand what was going on and, as importantly, what the school is doing to address it.
That news is actually part of what prompted me to start another thread trying to figure out how to gauge a school’s mental health/wellness supports: How to gauge schools' mental health supports -- figuring out the "wellness factor"?