I don't understand your point. Could you explain it, and hopefully in context of my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8722219 which provide some links to research which suggests that "67 percent of graduate students said they had felt hopeless at least once in the last year; 54 percent felt so depressed they had a hard time functioning; and nearly 10 percent said they had considered suicide, a 2004 survey found. By comparison, an estimated 9.5 percent of American adults suffer from depressive disorders in a given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health."

Some of the research was for UC, which has neither a bad program nor is a so-so school.