Are Colleges Making Students Suicidal?

Video intent: show the dark side of the college-crunch; are college-students more likely to be suicidal, and what are the contributing factors to it? Is it academic, or social?

Cornell installed nets along its hanging bridges to prevent their students from jumping off and killing themselves. It's a real-world reminder of the mental-health toll caused by college-crunch, where colleges pile tons of unnecessary busy-work on students with unrealistic deadlines, more so to prove that their graduates are 'stress tested survivors' rather than because they're actually learning anything.

Think about hazing rituals, and the artificial scarcity created by fraternities / sororities to make their clubs look more 'exclusive'. Colleges are playing the same game.

We could also talk about high schools as well? The suicide rate definitely goes up when high school is in session VS when it's not