<p>Hmm, my stats are not uberfantastic
SAT:
770 Math
690 Writing
680 Reading</p>
<p>Top 10% of class (barely)</p>
<p>4s and 5s on APs</p>
<p>I am half hispanic.</p>
<p>My last name is Eugenio.</p>
<p>Any other stats you are curious about?</p>
<p>Oh and they called someone else last night, so I presume that different Adcom members call on different nights... (apparently in years past they have had around 40, with each adcom member responsible for around 7?)</p>
<p>Good luck davnasca!</p>
<p>Haha, thanks theres still hope for my middle of the alphabet last name...</p>
<p>Do they try to make an effort to keep calls within a couple days of each other though? Its wicked hard concentrating on writing (both for school and regular applications) my essays right now!</p>
<p>I just got the call tonight too, after having ignored it TWICE as I was napping from pulling an all-nighter. I expected it was a project member griping at me to get down to the studio and help build a model, but lo and behold, it was It.</p>
<p>Hope to meet some of you this January!</p>
<p>I was napping from an all nighter too! Maybe that is the key! Hope to see all of you January</p>
<p>Hey I got THE CALL too! feels great, trust me! ...Now I just have to convince everyone to let me go there....
that'll be a challenge......
oh, well, it's worth it...</p>
<p>Just got the call! I was napping, but not from an all-nighter. Dan Gilles, from West Hartford, CT.</p>
<p>Funny thing, I got the call while napping as well. </p>
<p>Just a question - how are you guys replying to confirm that you will do part 2? I was surprised I was even asked; looking back I probably should have said "of course!" on the spot, but the person made it seem that most people consider it for a day or two. I sent an email last night but didn't get a response yet and am beginning to get a little worried that they may have a backlog of emails or something. :/</p>
<p>I was also surprised to get the call, but I just said yes.</p>
<p>WTH, I'm gonna start taking more naps!</p>
<p>No word yet and I'm starting to get worried...</p>
<p>Great to see so many of so few people in Round II on the board!</p>
<p>I go to public school in Los Angeles, CA, and the first letter of my last name is "D" (which might explain why I got the call on Sunday).</p>
<p>As everyone viewing this thread probably knows, "the thing to remember about statistics [and Deep Springs] is....."</p>
<p>And that's the truth!!!</p>
<p>But if it means anything:</p>
<p>SAT
720 Reading
740 Math
790 Writing</p>
<p>GPA
4.6 of 5.0 (no rank, 594 seniors graduating), A's and B's, mostly A's</p>
<p>Essays,Essays,Essays.....</p>
<p>I was in my Grandmother's bathroom seeking refuge from the chaos of our Hannukah party. I was so stunned, I just went crazy asking the guy (I think his name was Brian, but I was probably too worked up to remember) every question that came into my head. What are you all studying right now? What are foreign languages at Deep Springs like? What about vegetarians? Happy Hannukah to all your Jewish students (I bet there are loads of them, and took his laughter to mean that I assumed right).</p>
<p>When I asked about scheduling a visit, he sort of hesitated and perfunctorily asked if I intended to complete Round II. My answer, "Are you kidding?! There's no other place I'd rather be." It was awkward but fun and true.</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck to everyone. Hope to see some of you on the ranch...</p>
<p>By the way, if you haven't yet posted your location, please do!</p>
<p>Oddly enough, the boy who contacted me from Deep Springs, a certain Matt, is very good friends with one of my friends here at Cooper Union. My friend actually knew of my application to Deep Springs before I even told her, as Matt told her a student was applying to Deep Springs from her school (me). Small world, mm? </p>
<p>If it's of any help, here are my stats:</p>
<p>Last name starts with "F" (contacted Monday afternoon)</p>
<p>Enrolled at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science in Manhattan as a first year architecture student</p>
<p>Mediocre to uncompetitive grades in high school (on the low A side, weighted)</p>
<p>Took 11 APs, 6 senior year, three of which I failed (drew cartoons) and got 5's on the remaining three</p>
<p>SAT
800 CR
740 Math
760 Writing</p>
<p>Receiving mediocre grades in college</p>
<p>I don't know how much all of that is worth seeing as how I'm not in high school anymore and bearing in mind the clout of the essays. The SATs certainly get balanced out by my GPA and my uninspiring extracurriculars. </p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>P.S. On a lighter note (no pun intended), what's everybody listening to these days? My current favorites are Sufjan Stevens, Cat Power, Iron & Wine, Magnetic Fields, Beirut, Blonde Redhead, and The Shins, irreplaceably.</p>
<p>I have recently bopped it to (past week or so):
Radiohead
LCD Soundsystem
Bob Dylan
Beatles
Modest Mouse
Built to Spill
Wu Tang
Magnetic Fields
...Trail of Dead
Clinic
Daft Punk
Miles Davis
Pharoah Sanders
Talking Heads</p>
<p>I usually fluxuate between 90s indie mainstays, the hottest biggest littlest thing, and whatever else one is "supposed" to like.</p>
<p>Pitchfork fan?</p>
<p>I'm hoping that they are calling alphabetically! </p>
<p>Thus far, it seems they might be:</p>
<p>Dec. 9- Mwanafunzi, last name begins with “D”.
Dec. 10- Meugenio, last name “E”; pamplemousse oui last name “F”; rockthwer, last name unknown.
Dec. 11- Jabberwock, last name “G”; OAGr, last name unknown.</p>
<p>rockthwer and OAGr please tell me your last names are in the D to H-ish range! </p>
<p>I need some reassurance for my middle of the alphabet last name.</p>
<p>By the way, congrats to you all!</p>
<p>Sorry- My last name starts with a G.</p>
<p>And by the way, great music tastes here. I'm not that big a fan of Pitchfork (Allmusic Works for me.)</p>
<p>Most Recently:
Pavement (All-time fav.)
Neko Case
The Beatles (Haven't listened to them in a while.)
The Aquabats,
Pink Floyd (mainly The Wall)
Elliot Smith
The Decemberists
Radiohead
the Pixies
Led Zeppelin</p>
<p>One interesting thing I just found out- NPR has podcasts of entire concerts from some really big bands/ groups (like Neko Case and Spoon) on Itunes for free.</p>
<p>Nah, G is good! </p>
<p>Updated list of acceptances by date and last name:</p>
<p>Dec. 9- Mwanafunzi, last name begins with “D”.
Dec. 10- Meugenio, last name “E”
Dec. 10- pamplemousse oui last name “F”
Dec. 10- rockthwer, last name unknown.
Dec. 11- Jabberwock, last name “G”
Dec. 11- OAGr, last name "G".</p>
<p>I meant "sorry" for not telling you before. Good Luck! </p>
<p>By the way, already 6 of the 40 people replied on this board, and its probably only out of 15 or 20 because it was only to "G" so far. 1/3 of the entire acceptances for Part 2 may be here. Groovy.</p>
<p>I didn't get an email back yet, so I'm off to call and let them know that I'll do part two. Really wonder how many people actually reject.</p>
<p>I haven't received an email either. When you do, could you please let me know? I don't want to have goofed up again somehow; I only had a week to write round 1's essays and I don't want that repeating itself!</p>
<p>Where else are people here applying and considering?</p>
<p>Oh and davnasca, didn't you hear? They're not accepting anybody this year with a last name alphabetically above the letter "G." Something about just not being cool enough... :)</p>
<p>I really resisted posting here, but when the band names started a-droppin', I couldn't hold out. Got the call Monday night (last name begins with K) - quite possibly the most exciting/awkward phone conversation I've ever had. I have been chasing down DS for years now; can't believe I'm finally going to see the place.</p>
<p>As for music, I'm a big fan. I'm really into experimental stuff at the moment. Avant-garde jazz led me to twentieth-century classical and improvised music. I'm still relatively new to that arena, though, and find comfort in bluegrass, Dixieland, Delta blues, folk of any sort, psychedelia, 80's goth/post-punk, and the perennial 90's lo-fi (Guided by Voices, Neutral Milk Hotel).
Also, theatre organ music.</p>
<p>Wow, that is waaaaay too much about my musical taste. Sorry if you read all that.</p>
<p>As for stats:
Essay 1 - framed as excerpts from my field recording journals
Essay 2 - John Cage's 4'33" and Piranesi's infinite prisons - theory of sound
Essay 3 - central image: a blissful, wild union with Immanuel Kant, the object of my desire</p>
<p>What did you guys write about? I can't wait to see the essay topics for Round II. That'll be a great thirty seconds, followed by absolute panic.</p>
<p>This is a pretty awesome collection of music interests. But I guess I shouldn't have expected anything else...</p>
<p>Aphex Twin
Rage Against the Machine
Bill Laswell
Brian Eno
Frank Zappa
Chroma Key
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
John Coltrane
Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band
Tortoise
Primus
Radiohead
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Charles Mingus
Wayne Shorter
D'Angelo
Genesis
Glassjaw
The Mars Volta</p>
<p>By the way lankydenny, I wrote about "4"33'" in my first essay. I first got interested in Cage and the other early experimentals through Zappa and Edgar Varese. </p>
<p>Though this wasn't in any of my essays, I read a book called Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork when I was in the ninth grade. It was written by Bill Martin, a philosophy professor at DePaul. Every chapter discussed some different school of innovators, and had a discography at the end that pointed me in the direction of new stuff to check out. It turned me on to things as diverse as Jim O'Rourke and Merzbow. </p>
<p>Anyway, what a coincidence. It wouldn't surprise me if we all wrote about music at some point in our essays...</p>
<p>Ironically enough I didn't include any music references, but it took up 1/3 of my resume (and I'll send in an 8-minute EP/ album of my jazz playing in the part 2.) </p>
<p>I don't know, I only had a few days to write all of my essays and was pretty conventional on the first and last one. For the second one I went into a 2000 word rant about the way I view human equality. I really liked it but showed it to my English teacher later who hated it, so I kept it hidden and hoped that Deep Springs would see more in it (try to understand it at a greater level.) I guess they did.</p>
<p>Just a question- do any of you play music? The music tastes here are awesome and I'd like to create/ play in a small group if I get in. I play alto saxophone, but am learning guitar and keyboard.</p>