The Honest Guide to College
Trainee officer candidates of the United States Coast Guard jump into the water during rescue training. (Bettmann Archive via Getty Images)
College students' mental health is suffering. Downplaying challenges of living away from home for the first time won’t make it any better.
About three million first-time college students will soon be arriving on campus—most of them coming directly from high school. About one million of them won’t make it through their first year or return as sophomores. This attrition is financially and emotionally devastating for families, and destabilizing for colleges. What goes wrong for so many studen…
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