<p>within a week two students at my school (ucsd) killed themselves by jumping off high things</p>
<p>just like a week or two ago yo</p>
<p>UChicago maybe?</p>
<p>It's unfair to suggest places that might have this problem without statistics or anything.</p>
<p>yeah i hear uchicago is pretty bad</p>
<p>mit, nyu, uchicago, cmu, harvard, and cornell are supposedly all up there. though i think cmu’s rate has decreased over the past 5 years… i don’t know</p>
<p>Harvard seems to have had 3 this year, 2 seems to be the average from what other students have told me. A few years ago a student stabbed her roommate to death in Dunster. No one sleeps in that room anymore…</p>
<p>NYU is somewhat known for its suicide rates. Or maybe they just get publicized more since students tend to jump off buildings. :-</p>
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<p>MIT has 10,000 students. I wouldn’t call that small.</p>
<p>MIT has 4,000 undergrads. It’s not tiny, but it’s small enough to make it problematic to tell if a rash of suicides is statistically significant.</p>
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<p>The suicide stats don’t make a distinction with undergrad and grad status, as far as I can surmise.</p>
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If that were true, other urban schools with similar environments, like CUNY schools and Fordham Lincoln Center would also have high suicide rates, which they don’t. Also, the buildings are all close together and the students are hardly separated - the urban nature is probably a small factor. </p>
<p>NYU is the largest private school in the country, with almost 55,000 students. Cornell is also massive. In schools that large, there will simply be more suicides because there are more students. NYU suicides are also more publicized because of the manner in which the students chose to kill themselves. There have been a lot of particularly grisly deaths, don’t want go into details, but it wasn’t pretty. :(</p>
<p>I have never seen a thread that took a three year jump in time and some of the original posters are still with us!</p>
<p>I have to defend U of C. Students do not kill themselves at U of C, they GET KILLED. The violence is terrible.</p>
<p>A shooting every week or two on campus, most of time in forms of drive-by’s, a local favorite or something. If you are in U of C, your chances of being shot is many many many times higher than the .002 or whatever small number it is.</p>
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The MIT numbers I used earlier in this thread are for undergraduates only – the suicide rash in the late 90s was all undergraduates.</p>
<p>As a graduate student myself, I hate to ask the question this way, but what does it matter to the culture of a school if there’s a rash of graduate student suicides?</p>
<p>Shocking to hear that, asian at lab. Never knew that.</p>
<p>I would think that most suicides happen at these top schools because the students who go there are used to being the best of the best at their high schools. When they go to places like MIT or Cornell or NYU, and they’re not the smartest people any more, it gets depressing. The competition to remain on top must be extremely stressful.</p>
<p>Or… that’s my theory at least. :)</p>
<p>why do people here think that high grades in college is a prerequisite for a good life? It’s so strange. Try having a chronic debilitating illness or getting disfigured in an accident. I know some pretty happy people that didn’t even go to college.</p>
<p>I was looking through facebook and saw pics of this one blue collar trade school guy from my high school. He had a gorgeous girlfriend and lots of friends and I’m sure he makes decent money. Is life over for him? Maybe I’m missing something.</p>
<p>In any case, I’d be happy to come out of MIT with a 2.0. Why kids there kill themselves I have no idea.</p>
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haha yeah right, NYU students are nothing like that, at least in my classes (and i’m pre-med and not in an easy major)…most people here are pot smoking hipsters, not the bookworm types…and my Cornell friends are pretty chill. Maybe it’s just MIT students? And Cornell’s suicide rate is below the national average, it’s a stupid rumor. </p>
<p>Cornell and NYU have developed reputations for high suicide rates because they’re freaking huge - NYU is the largest private school and Cornell the 2nd largest, so there’s more people killing themselves, and Cornell students do it in the gorges and NYU students leap off Manhattan buildings so the grisly deaths earn more attention. I bet UC has a LOT more suicides since it’s like the largest college.</p>
<p>According to my opinion students suicide because of their failure in the professional field. They spend most of the time thinking that they would earn a handsome amount of money by their courses but they fail due to market competition and unemployment.</p>