<p>Ahh, it's good to hear of some reason behind this. Well, that's all right then.
I don't know why exactly I'm applying to Princeton, since I guarantee I'll be rejected. Well, I do -- their financial aid is @%*!ing amazing and they do seem to have a very solid undergraduate focus missing in many universities of its "institutional reputation." I would like to go to, say, a UChicago as much, but I know I might be getting much, much less there. O college admissions process, how radiant you are.</p>
<p>Seven months from now, when every single test is done and I've decided on a college, I'll look back on this as a brief nightmare in my life. lol</p>
<p>Good luck with Princeton. I'm sure you'll get in, with a monster aid package too. But you'll have to reject it cuz you'll already be on your way to Deep Springs by then. :)</p>
<p>I'm obsessed with the fact that it starts in the summertime. We'll already be working the ranch while all our friends are still lazing about and waiting for August to come.</p>
<p>Noam Finkelstein also wrote the response to my email, ending it with a "Regards" instead of "Best of Luck." It's clearly a cryptic message by which deciphering we can determine when notification will occur. :P</p>
<p>Shamefully enough, I can't help but jump whenever my phone rings...</p>
<p>I had the supreme honor of being deferred earlier today from UChicago. Now I have to wait an additional four or so months for the regular notification to see if I'm in or not, rendering my Early Application completely pointless.
I don't see my prospectives for Deep Springs as any better; I purposefully shot myself in the foot in the lead up to doing my application. It was such a strange experience. I had been anticipating doing my Deep Springs' app for over a year prior to November, and because I became so accostomed to the idea that November=Deep Springs, I became almost desensitized to the pressure of applying.
In the end, I recycled an essay about my relationship with my brother that I wrote for UCHicago into my first Deep Springs Essay, wrote a convoluted mess about the human understanding of death for Deep Springs Essay Two, and summed up my desire to equally embrace Deep Spring's labor aspects and educational oppurtunities for Essay Number Three.
I suppose I didn't try as hard as I could have because I feared that if I did try my best, completely set myself at the feet of Deep Springs, and was still rejected, I'd have no excuse; my failure would be completely due to my inadequacy as opposed to be laziness.
Writing this all done just magnified to myself the level of my stupidity by more than I care to say. Then again, I won't lie, I have never heard of either Foucalt or Rawls and my SAT's were hardly stellar (1390). Perhaps I'm not the caliber of person intended for Deep Springs.
I don't know who or why I wrote this for, but it felt mighty cathartic to put it down somewhere.</p>
<p>Silver Jews- Like Like The The The Death on repeat.</p>
<p>bbear- your SAT is 10 points higher than mine was, don't be too hard on yourself. :) i think that just by going through the process of applying, we've all crossed a certain threshold of caliber.</p>
<p>I appreciate the kindness, sufjanfan46. Just curious, but do you know if DS notifies rejected students of their rejected status along with those people who are accepted to the second round? The idea of the student body calling a hundred fifty+ applicants to simply reject them seems to be pointless. I'm guessing, with no evidence whatsoever, that they mail rejected students notifications in lieu of calling, so if no one hears back this week, it is because they were not accepted.</p>
<p>I on the other hand only heard about Deep Springs fairly recently (well, I had heard the name as William Vollmann's alma mater, but never looked into it until maybe in early October) and did the application pretty much in the last two days I could. ...Realizing only then that I had rushed the application to one of the only colleges that offers a truly unique experience.</p>
<p>Sorry about the deferral, bbear. Just send in more materials, make sure you voice your interest, and you'll have a good shot -- I think EA deferrals do get a slight boost, right? </p>
<p>By the way. My last name starts with an M. (Since I read that last year's phone calls came in alphabetical order...)</p>
<p>Side note: Has anyone, on their CommonApp essay, made up a strange topic?
Another side note: People should read R.K. Narayan's The Guide (which I can't remember if I listed on my book list for DS). Also: A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, which I have read some random parts of and find awesome. I want to tackle math and science and philosophy sometime too... soon...</p>
<p>I actually <em>haven't</em> made up a strange topic -- I was just thinking of doing it, because I hate the topics. By strange, I meant something along the lines of UChicago's prompts or Tufts' optional essay.</p>
<p>I tried to write a surrealist one about how there's a black Republican hiding in the back of every pick-up truck you see on the highway....it fell apart though</p>
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<li>2008 was rumored to have had a record number of college applicants, effecting everyone (most likely including DS).</li>
<li>Right around the time those brochures were mailed, the economy tanked. The economy fell particularly hard on those upper-middle class parents who usually let their sons go to a school like DS in the first place.This would make any school that would give an outstanding education for pretty much NOTHING (in comparison to the other Ivy/Elite colleges out there) worth taking a shot at, regardless of the demands placed on the applicant.</li>
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<p>This leads me to believe that, to (possibly) our dismay, that there may have been a record number of applications this year, leading to a delay. And as soon as I type this someone is going to get a phone call...</p>