<p>Try certified mail, which cost 5-7 bucks more but comes with this green postcard you’ll receive upon safe delivery.
If you use priority or express mail, there are also tracking service and insurance you can add with cost. Go to post office and ask.</p>
<p>Hello,
Brningman, to say that I am upset would be an understatement. In response to your post on the 26th of October, and I apologize for my tardiness in responding, and I speak for rednegativity and myself on this, you are totally off base on your statement that " So many of these people on this forum see Deep Springs as a great start so they can go off to Harvard College"… when did we ever express any sort of desire for DS to be a springboard to Harvard?! That’s utterly egrigious and off base. Why would any of the original members of this thread want to put their heart and souls not only into the DS applications but also theoretically into what DS demands of every single student that attends it? And another response to your response on the 30th of October, we were in no way trying to threaten anybody on the thread with our discussions in philosophy,but we were all trying to have intelligent conversation on predominantly literature related topics, and If any of that goes over the head of anybody reading this thread, then it would appear that Deep Springs College would, alas, not be the appropriate place for those people after all.</p>
<p>All I tried to do was console Striker89 because he felt that the topics expressed here were placed into a category in which he has not studied upon. That is speaking on behalf of Striker89. I apologize for the friendly competition that I have brought upon this forum. :)</p>
<p>BrningMan,
I completely agree with Samuel. And it is ridiculous that you would ever suggest that any of us would have the most selective and intellectual college in the country at the top of our lists in order to get into a less unique and less intellectual school. It’s literally offending. And, in case you really thought this to be the case, I would like to inform you that Harvard no longer accepts transfer applications. So, all in all, “friendly” competition is not the way to put it. And it is true that anybody less than well versed in some intellectual pursuit, be it studies in philosophy or literature or classical music theories, might to best to avoid Deep Springs. Take what I say with a grain of salt, as I am also only a prospective student and I have never even been on campus, but I can’t imagine it any other way.</p>
<p>OptimisticCynic,
I love love love Beirut. Good to know that other DS prospectives do as well.</p>
<p>CAPhotographer,
I just read Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” today, and I have to say that I agree with Samuel. It is a ridiculously affecting portrait of an artist just as it is a necessary commentary on both the purpose of art and the state of art’s intent in the modern world. I hate that it takes me so long to get around to replying to your amazing posts, but it unfortunately does take me quite a while. I have swine flu right now, and so I have been less than incredibly attentive the last few days, and I spent all last week working on my UChicago essay and my creative writing portfolio for scholarships at safeties like Knox. I will come back to your reply soon–hopefully within a few days–when I have the time and the appropriate attention. </p>
<p>Question for all:
How far into the DS application are you?</p>
<p>I’ve been pacing myself for about three months now, and as I intend these three essays to be the best that I have ever written, it is taking me much longer than I had originally anticipated. In fact, I decided a few days ago to completely start my first essay over, and I am going to edit down my second essay so much that it will be unrecognizable. These next two weeks should be difficult/demanding/interesting/amazing/everything about why I want to go to Deep Springs in the first place. </p>
<p>Good luck, again, to all.</p>
<p>“And it is true that anybody less than well versed in some intellectual pursuit, be it studies in philosophy or literature or classical music theories, might to best to avoid Deep Springs.”</p>
<p>rednegativity (zach, I think?), don’t be so quick to say who should and shouldn’t apply (not implying you’re arrogant. You were humble in your later qualification of the very statement I quote). The student body aren’t all philosopher kings. Your brain won’t melt when they deign to speak to you. Roughly 200 people apply every year. That’s not the 200 most intelligent people in the world, it’s just 200 people of the relatively small pool of people who have heard of Deep Springs. It isn’t utopia, which some people seem to be billing it as.</p>
<p>All I’m trying to say is that “the Deep Springs student” isn’t some superman intellectual, here to expose your personal deficiencies. His an 18 or 19 year old guy just like you and me.</p>
<p>On how far I am? I’m starting my essays soon…ish. Wrote them at the eleventh hour last time and now I have a feeling like there’s a security net under me. “Ehh, put it off. You’ll be fine. Remember last year?”</p>
<p>I’m applying to Deep Springs so I can later transfer into Stanford premed…is there anything wrong with that? I like Beirut too, so should it really be a problem?</p>
<p>Bbear, welcome back… While your statement on the pool of DS applicants may be true, one should take into account the very nature of the type of academic work that gets done at DS before deciding whether or not to apply based on that because academics is one of the three pillars and is taken just as seriously as the other two are, so in that sense I am sticking with what Zach said, but maybe to a lesser extent because while at DS those types of pursuits can be taken on.
Wawee, I would not recomend doing your plan just simply on the basis of how much DS demands of you while you are there, and there is no guaruntee that you will be accepted to Stanford Premed… But If you are willing and able to take on DS for other reasons other than a means to an end, than by all means apply… But in the vein of Zach , I too am just a person who is interested in the college but has never been there so take my statements with a grain of salt too…</p>
<p>Hi guys. I am an applicant from mainland China. I was reading Fiske Guide this morning when I came across Deep Springs. I have actually heard a lot about the college before, but I forgot it when choosing schools. I visited the website this morning and found myself fascinated by the school. I decided to apply.</p>
<p>I knew I do not have much time, but I have written an essay related to he first topic when I appied ED to Columbia.</p>
<p>I am kind of worried about the inteview thing in application 2 because my parents probably can not afford such a trip.</p>
<p>My CR score in SAT is also a bit low compared to DS’s average. But my high school grades are pretty good.</p>
<p>Are there any other international students applying this year?</p>
<p>Oh, right. Anyone could read my first essay? I think the intellectual side of me it shows matches the style of DS.</p>
<p>fellas fellas, lets not fight via forum. I’m 1,300 words in, so I still have a bit left. I have my essays planned out already so thats good.</p>
<p>How far is along is everyone?</p>
<p>First off, the first round essays are not brutal. I’m not the greatest writer ever, but these essays are pretty easy.</p>
<p>Second, I think Deep Springs would be the funnest and most educational years of my life if I went there, but seeing all the intellectual show off that is going on in this forum is slightly funny/sickening. Who are you trying to prove yourself to? It doesn’t impress anyone, especially on the internet. </p>
<p>Now I know I have little hope of getting in, seeing as Deep Springs is very selective and potentially filled with the kind of people I just insulted. But I agree with Bbear on this quote</p>
<p>“rednegativity , don’t be so quick to say who should and shouldn’t apply (not implying you’re arrogant. You were humble in your later qualification of the very statement I quote).”</p>
<p>Except I think the behavior you exhibited was arrogant. Maybe not you as a person, but that comment?</p>
<p>Totally.</p>
<p>???
They are just talking about books and ideas they love and couldn’t help it? If I knew or read them I can join in but I don’t and can’t, is all. What is your issue? You don’t like book talk? Then DS is the last place on the earth you want to be. What made you want to go there? If money is the issue, there are tons of army navy places and some tech schools around that fit better.</p>
<p>and at least one music school and one fine art/arch/eng, if that’s your thing, all free.</p>
<p>Statik,
I don’t know where you are perceiving arrogance in anything expressed on this forum. Speaking for myself, and I’m also pretty sure my friend Rednegativity will agree to this, none of our posts were ever meant to " show off" or exude “arrogance” in any way. In fact, at certain points in this threads history, I felt as though the thread was simply a conversation between Red and myself, and that no one else was viewing it, and certainly were not posting on it. If you want to call me arrogant for being interested in authors or philosophy go right ahead, but that certainly isn’t my aim, and I don’t perceive that in myself or of any of the original posters upon this thread. And I agree wholeheartedly with bears and dogs: why would you want to go to Deep Springs if you are not interested in philosophy, literature, or other intellectual pursuits?
Perhaps you should re-read this thread a little more carefully this time, and then reevaluate your judgment on us…
However I do agree with you that the Round 1 essays are not as hard as everyone here makes them out to be…</p>
<p>I was hoping one of my sons would go to Deep Springs. Closest thing is that one of them went to boarding school called Midland School, Los Olivos, CA, which is as much like Deep Springs as hs could be . . . . very small student body, 2800 ac ranch north of Santa Barbara down long sparsely-populated road (except M Jackson’s Neverland is next door—which is ironic since Midland kids basically live with minimal help from Stuff and Technology). For application, student writes essay on Thoreau (or did when mine went), and motto of school is “Needs not wants” and they mean it. Organic veg garden, school maintenance, done by students, kind of like hippie military school in sense it is highly structured which it has to be to have kids do maintenance etc on working schedule. Afternoons, after classes, alternate sports with work. The work component fosters interdependence of students and self-respect for work contributed. Hot water for showers comes from woodburning stove—rotating duty to keep it going, each student has 3 days of “shower fire duty”—if you fail to do this job your classmates have no hot water, great teaching device. But school on otherhand is relaxed and counter culture . Good academics. Alumni are very very loyal. A neurologist friend in his '50s who was alum said—Trouble with Midland is you basically spend your life wishing you could live like you were at Midland again…" Personally, I think swimming in a funky reservoir up the valley with a zipline would be a lot more fun than in a fancy olympic size pool at goldplated prep school up the road, but that is just me . . . . .</p>
<p>then what happened college-wise? do tell!</p>
<p>Oh no, don’t tell. I just looked at the web.
There are girls in dress and ballet flat! $36 K !!! How in the world you can say it is close to DS, nor it isn’t goldplated prep school???
L.L.Nunn would twist in the grave.</p>
<p>2924SW. Midland does sound like an interesting place, but I don’t think it really compares to DS. It would be fun/interesting place to go to school as a kid, rather than going to just another public school. Thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>Does everything need to be postmarked by the 15th or do they need to receive everything by then?</p>