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Choosing the wrong college can be bad for your mental health

  • Written by Noli Brazil, Assistant Professor of Community & Regional Development, University of California, Davis
How peers perform in college can affect student mental health. mimagephotography/www.shutterstock.com

Going off to college might be a source of anxiety for some students, but once a student is on campus it shouldn’t be a total drag.

But that tends to happen more frequently when a student ends up at a college where the student body is weaker...

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