"Poison Ivy League: The dangers of a world-class education"

"A traveling exhibition by Active Minds, an advocacy group, consists of 1,100 backpacks representing the approximate number of undergraduates who commit suicide each year."

On a chilly January day, "another" beautiful young maiden in search of a bright future "jumped off the top of a parking garage [at UPENN] and killed herself." Though her death was quick and to most just another figure to add to the unfortunate rising statistics for college suicides, it also left many other university students confused and stunned. A fellow university student wrote "in a blog post soon afterwards" saying: “What the hell, girl?! I was supposed to be the one who went first! You had so much to live for!” Though Ms. Dewitt had never met Ms. Holleran, she had heard of this fine students remarkable popularity, attractiveness and talent.
These stories aren't unheard of. As a matter of fact, "there are more than 1,000 suicides on college campuses per year" (Emory University). How many stories could I write: 3 everyday of the year. if the whooping one thousand isn't shocking enough, how does it feel to know that "one in every ten college students has made a plan for suicide" (Emory University). 
So many naive high school students believe that by exhausting themselves in high school they will find refuge in a prestigious Ivy League University. This is not true for there are too many article to count where a students "conquered high school like a gold-medal decathlete" but to venture into college feeling like an unwanted weed in a beautiful garden of roses. What good is dreaming of a future where you may walk out of college ready to get hired into a core company to earn big bucks if you were faced every day--of your stressed-out life in college-- debating whether you should keep living or just do everyone the favor and kill yourself. Don't be that "high-IQ moron" (NewStatesman).
College may seem like a safe haven for student in high school now, but be careful where you choose. Pick the college that suites you, don't strive to suite the college so they can pick you. The most prestigious school could also very well be the most dangerous school.

sites: very good reads!
http://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/the-myth-of-the-ivy-league/

"Kathryn DeWitt, a University of Pennsylvania student who has battled depression, shares her experiences at a chapter meeting of Active Minds."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html

Madison Holleran, one of the many students who succumbed to the beauty of death.

http://ujreview.com/2015/05/08/kate-fagan-split-image-the-tragic-story-of-madison-holleran/ 
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/poison-ivy-league-dangers-world-class-education
http://www.emorycaresforyou.emory.edu/resources/suicidestatistics.html