<p>Is there a parent here who has/had a kid at Deep Springs College?
Can you comment on the experience?
Deep</a> Springs College</p>
<p>I can’t believe ! Nobody ??/!!!</p>
<p>Aren’t there only two dozen kids there at a time? Going to be challenging to find someone, i would imagine.</p>
<p>Well, with such a tiny enrollment what did you expect?</p>
<p>The kids have to be very self driven since there are no parents behind them…
Yes, the enrollment is tiny, but double it by two years, I thought there would be someone on CC.
DH sees at as a perfect school for DS. DS is a very good mathematician but also quite versed and would like to become a filmmaker… Dh grew up on the farm hence the appeal for him…</p>
<p>My D has a good friend who is a freshman there. An extremely interesting kid. The application process was grueling, two sets of long essays and a very intensive interview if one gets that far. It’s so very selective. Apparently it took some time to adapt to the isolation (and this kid has an incredible background that lends itself to adapting easily). Intensive manual labor, getting used to the psychological aspect of being in a small group (15 or so in his year if I remember correctly) in the middle of nowhere, intense reading and discussion, a very cerebral atmosphere yet rough basic living. My hat goes off to any kid who gets accepted there, they each will go far in life after the two years. I remember seeing a list of graduates who turned out to be real leaders and accomplished in their fields.</p>
<p>I almost applied to it. Then I realized that if I go there, I won’t see any girls for the better part of 2 years. I don’t think any education is worth that… but that’s just me.</p>
<p>I see Deep Springs as a place that may be more interesting than appealing. I read a review a few years back which summed up its “student activities scene” as going out on the porch to smoke.</p>
<p>Oh and I also heard that the internet there is absolutely horrible… :(</p>
<p>There was an article about Deep Sprigs mentioned here on CC not long ago.[?] I personally think that for most students and parents here on CC, perhaps part of the reason that so few apply to Deep Springs is the thinking is - why go through the application process twice? Once to get in for only 2 years and once again to transfer to another college for your last 2 years? If you are qualified enough to get into DS you probably can get into a lot of other great colleges in the first place.</p>
<p>found it
<a href=“http://www.hound.com/gjceospeaks.php?id=3607&utm_source=WJT&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20090626-14635-Hound-Did_5700231[/url]”>http://www.hound.com/gjceospeaks.php?id=3607&utm_source=WJT&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20090626-14635-Hound-Did_5700231</a></p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I lol’d. </p>
<p>These kids come here all the time, she said. But they did not get their sex infections here. One of them must have gotten it somewhere else and infected the rest of the boys there. God knows what must go on there. My girls are clean. They are inspected by a doctor. You go back there and tell him my girls are clean!</p>
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I personally think that for most students and parents here on CC, perhaps part of the reason that so few apply to Deep Springs is the thinking is - why go through the application process twice?
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I’d guess it has more to do with the whole “getting up at 5am every day to do exhausting physical labor in nearly complete seclusion with your couple dozen classmates, all guys, who have the power to decide whether or not you can skip a day of chores to go visit your girlfriend or your family” thing. The college application process doesn’t sound like that big a deal compared with digging ditches, wrangling and butchering cattle, and cooking and cleaning on a daily basis. Deep Springs is definitely all about fit!</p>
<p>That’s an interesting and quite an enlightening article.
I think another reason so few people apply is because it simply doesn’t offer the college experience that most expect and look forward to. It takes a very particular person to be attracted to DS.</p>
<p>I know someone who’s about 26 who went there, had a good experience, and afterward went to Swarthmore. He’s a very nice, interesting person who’s now working on an MA in environmental science after being in the Peace Corps. He told me that he chose Deep Springs because he liked the intellectualism as well as the environmentalism that he learned by working in agriculture there.</p>
<p>Before meeting him, I had thought that the guys who chose Deep Springs would be the type of people who have difficulty relating to others. However, the graduate whom I know converses easily and interestingly with all types of people.</p>
<p>I’d think that the DS students would actually be types who would have to relate well with others. It’s such a tight knit community. With their self governance policies and the requirement to be on committees and so forth, and in constant interaction with each other, they’d need to work well together, relate to each other, be flexible. I’d think that a loner wouldn’t fit in.</p>
<p>I agree with Sequoia The Deep Springs graduate whom I know is very flexible, welcoming of different viewpoints and types of people, and easy to be with. He gets along with everyone and is a joy to know.</p>
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<li><p>There was a New Yorker article a few years back that was funny and informative.</p></li>
<li><p>I know one student who went through the whole process and was accepted at Deep Springs, but ultimately chose Harvard instead. He was nothing like a social loner – very popular, a gifted musician and serious-music composer, and a hell of a unicyclist.</p></li>
<li><p>I wonder if Harvard’s closing itself to transfers has affected Deep Springs. Harvard was the most common destination for Deep Springs grads.</p></li>
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<p>S grew up doing many of the things those kids learned there - had to learn to drive a stick shift at 10 'cause he was too small to buck hay. After years of digging ditches, setting fences, shearing, vaccinating and castrating lambs, loading hay, etc. he was not interested in a school that offered more of the same 
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Check the College threads on CC. There is one for Deep Springs that has some discussion from applicants. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/deep-springs-college/?pp=20&daysprune=-1[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/deep-springs-college/?pp=20&daysprune=-1</a></p>
<p>Stumbled onto this. I have a son at DS. Started July 3. Loves it so far. Look a leave from his initial school to go there. After two years there, he plans to return as a junior.</p>
<p>Two of S’s schoolmates went to Deep Springs. One had been admitted to Harvard as well. When he completed Deep Springs, he transferred to Harvard (that was when Harvard still accepted transfers). He was interviewed in the Crimson and spoke about being a bit disoriented coming to Harvard after two years in such a small community (he was local and was very familiar with Harvard). I don’t know what happened to the other schoolmate after he finished at Deep Springs.</p>