<p>What's with all the UT-Austin hatred? Austin is nothing like Texas at all, despite what the Real World may portray. Also...Texas is not "slow-paced" unless you live in a crappy little town.</p>
<p>In order of hatred:
-Any military institution. Why submit yourself to such mental and physical torture? (I know someone at West Point. NOT my cup of tea.) Plus, I'm a pacifist.
-BJU or anywhere super-religious and ultra-conservative. I am a liberal Christian who does NOT believe in cults.
-Big, impersonal places like Berkeley, NYU, etc.
-MIT, CalTech, and other math-intensive institutions.
-Anything in the South. I, too, am a northern type.</p>
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<p>"No, they're not! Shows much you not about that! They're not all terrible, especially Harvard, there are Harvard grads playing and starting in the NFL right now! Chris Burk, the starting center for the Minnesota Vikings is from Harvard, and the quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick, was recently drafted by the St. Louis Rams. You need some MAJOR skills to play in the Ivy League."</p>
<p>There isn't even a Chris Burk in the league... smart one.</p>
<p>Don't try calling people out when you aren't correct.</p>
<p>It's Matt Birk...</p>
<p>the midwest isn't slow paced in like michigan or around chicago. i wouldnt want to go to any cal state school. and i agree about texas - the only negative is that it's in texas. rice is cool too.</p>
<p>i totally forgot about west point.
:-X</p>
<p>I wouldn't go to any New England Private School</p>
<p>Texas A&M. You're called an aggie. People ceaselessly make fun of you. Your school is in CS. The place is ultra-conservative. <em>shudder</em></p>
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i think he means "Berkeley" and that he would "like to stay alive" because of the high % of suicide that was recently reported there. Comparable to Cornell's notoreity actually. :P
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<p>Never heard about it. could you post something? btw, i doubt they pass mit or harvard, but we'll see.</p>
<p>Texas A&M and Baylor. Just too much of a "culture" at each. Plus A&M is the least attractive campus I've seen.</p>
<p>Berkeley and Cornell do not even make the top 10 list when it comes to suicide rates. MIT is the frontrunner and Harvard is a close runner up. No other university even comes close.</p>
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There isn't even a Chris Burk in the league... smart one.</p>
<p>Don't try calling people out when you aren't correct.</p>
<p>It's Matt Birk...
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Sorry, it's Matt Birk. O-la-la. My point is still right.</p>
<p>Alexandre, that's weird because I've always heard that Johns Hopkins and University of Chicago were #1 and #2, respectively.</p>
<p>It's wonderful that I'm applying to almost every single one of the colleges listed here having the highest suicide rates. I'd better start praying more.</p>
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<p>MIT is the frontrunner and Harvard is a close runner up. No other university even comes close.</p>
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<p>Cite?</p>
<p>Didn't know that. Interesting.</p>
<p>According to that article, MIT and Harvard were the highest (in the 1990's) out of TWELVE campuses studied. As there are several thousand colleges in the United States, we should probably look at more than twelve of them before we conclude that "no other university even comes close."</p>
<p>Hey I definately agree. Still, 11 suicides in just 10 years seems like a horrible amount. Though I doubt you can blame the atmosphere of the school, it seems like its just lack of access to psychological help, and they're trying to fix that.</p>
<p>Alexandre, I think history has spoken for itself at Berkeley. When my parents were there, they always told me about how the horrid stories always come round with the campanile tower (and the stains at its base). If we thought grade depression nowadays was bad at public universities, it really was absurd back then. Only 5% of students or so got As, and a majority were flunked out (sciences). After a couple years they finally installed some iron bars to stop students from jumping off the tower. However, I think the popular suicide death location moved to the electrical engineering building.
My professor who got his PhD at Berkeley said no one sane would go to Berkeley during those days. Education was hardly soft, warm and fuzzy. Strangely enough my parents met at Berkeley, despite their horrible experiences. My dad was weeded out of the sciences while my mom and her joy luck club friends crushed the opposition (aka her future husband/current boyfriend!).</p>
<p>I don't know if this is what was happening at MIT in the 1990's, but at some high schools, there's been a "copycat" effect observed: one widely-publicized suicide can encourage other students, who were teetering on the edge, over the brink. Suicide is like any other behavior in that you're more likely to act if you feel like part of a crowd than if you feel you're swimming against the stream. In other words, a bunch of schools might have equally at-risk student bodies, but a single suicide can light the fuse and set off a rash of similar deaths, creating the appearance that one school has a serious problem and the others are fine, when in reality all of them would benefit from better mental health services.</p>
<p>Suicides publicized on TV actually have a higher chance of prompting people of similar age of the suicider of performing the same feat. It's dangerous to publicize teenage suicides in the media, especially if the circumstances and rationale of the suicide are very similar to those of other mentally-ill teens.</p>
<p>Remember the tylenol poisoning scare? It was prompted by copycat behavior of people inserting poisonous pills into then unprotected drug bottles all over the nation after the initial reported case. Now we have to frustrate ourselves with plastic wrap that prevent some people (mainly me) from opening drugs.</p>