<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Yes, best of luck. And you might want to check into the DS website list of other, "alternative" education schools, too.</p>
<p>Well the alternative education is pretty unique.</p>
<p>Since it is free, you might as well give it a shot. Also, you will most likely transfer to an Ivy after the two years, so it is a win-win if you play your cards right.</p>
<p>Not trying to incite any riots here, but I'm fairly sure that a culture of homosexuality is fairly ingrained at Deep Springs, so if that's not your thing... I could possibly be thinking of another school but I'm pretty sure I heard this about DS.</p>
<p>meateater^</p>
<p>I thought about that, I mean it seems like it very well could be, hell 20 guys alone in the desert. </p>
<p>But honestly, I don't think it would bug me too much. I'm straight, if I live with x number of gay guys for 2 years, it would probably open my mind more. </p>
<p>But does anyone have any verifiable information on the truth of the ingrained homosexuality at DS? It would be interesting to know...</p>
<p>Actually, I've heard that, too, only recently. I'm not sure how true it is, but my GSI said that they only accept gay men. <em>Shrug</em> Check into it.</p>
<p>^ accept only gay men. That can't be true.</p>
<p>I'm not saying that it is or that it isn't. I'm saying that he said that it's an unspoken rule.</p>
<p>Somewhere on Google...</p>
<p>Deep Springs provides full scholarships for all students, so economic background is no barrier to acceptance here. The student body is largely white (there are Asians, but no black or Hispanic students), liberal, and extremely bright. One student reported, "Most years there is one gay student on campus. Homophobia doesn't exist here."</p>
<p>That's a bunch of crap. This isn't some type of gay school, though they will admit gay students, they definitely have a straight man majority.</p>
<p>I got a thin ffrom them a few days ago and I am extremely intrigued. It seems like they have the life changing experience thing on lock. I'm just worried it might be too "out there"</p>
<p>Calm down, celebrian25 This isn't an expression of homophobia- it is important for students who might be interested to know about these issues.</p>
<p>There are only one or two homosexuals per class, but you better get used to things like all-male dances and group skinny dipping in the daytime. Whenever a girl calls they all go crazy and try to talk to her in turns though, so I'm pretty sure most of them are straight. It's the general sense of "we're so cool because we're too good to be a part of society" that gets annoying.</p>
<p>Note: I applied last year and was invited to interview during a five day visit (you have to do that in the second round). I too was extremely excited and intrigued at first and thought it sounded like the chance of a lifetime. Very quickly after I arrived though I realized it's quite different from what it sounds like. It's a very strange experience, which I'm glad I looked into, but turned out to be totally the opposite of what I wanted college to be.</p>
<p>it sounds slightly bizarre to me, i just got the brochure in the mail,
only 26 people, such a small faculty that it is relatively impossible to have any choice in classes, group labor details, isolated environment in the middle of the country, and you are not allowed to leave campus except for family emergencies.
i would almost venture to call it cultist.</p>
<p>but then again maybe i just had the wrong impression.</p>
<p>DS does not only accept gay man. MY friend at Oxford went to DS and he is straight. I think if you are afraid of DS because you are afraid of missing out on normal college life as an undergrad, dont. Alot of DS grads go on to other education institutions after to do a BA or advance degree. My friend at Oxford who graduated from DS is doing a BA. Other DS grads have done BAs at Univ of Chicago and so on...</p>