Stress and suicide among high achieving, affluent kids

[ucbalumnus]

@rosered55

Perspective helps: one of my nephews was not at all enthusiastic about applying for college. I think he thought he’d get in to all the places he applied; he is a URM; he is a he; he is very talented in the arts, including winning a national award; he had a 4.0; he attended high school in a city with a very low graduation rate for blacks, especially black boys. He took the slacker approach to applications.

Was there an environmental effect, in that if the school was one where few students graduate (much less go on to college), there may not have been much encouragement from any of counselors, teachers, or peer students to make much of an effort in searching for and applying to colleges?