<p>I know this is a rather different question than I have seen at CC, but in the spirit of honest diligence, I ask this. Data such as this might indicate different things, but let the parents and the students see the data and decide for themselves. with the recent (just last yr) V tech incident, this question is also germaine.</p>
<p>I just had a conversation yesterday w/ a friend who related to me that his D 'played the lottery' and applied to Princeton on the chance that she'd get in. She did not get in. But in this conversation, he then further told me that the son of a collegue at his work got in to Princeton two years ago, and committed suicide. Talk about a lead balloon in that conversation.</p>
<p>So I was thinking, 'be careful what you wish for, you might get it'.... and lots of other things regarding this incident such as what is really important anyway in this big college search that we all are a party to, etc.</p>
<p>For valid comparison across schools there would need to be a RATE per some number (say, thousand).</p>
<p>side note: in the book, Cool Colleges, there is a stat on this: it says the nat'l suicide rate for americans aged 15-24 is 1.1 per 10,000 per annum. It goes on to say that, therefore, for any seven lacs of 1500 students each, one might expect one suicide in any one year.</p>
<p>I'd like to see the data by colleges and not aggregrate.</p>