<p>I am considering applying. Seeing more girls applying is reassuring, I wasn’t sure how many other girls knew about Deep Springs due to its only recent inclusion policy. </p>
<p>The material on the web regarding Deep Spring’s admissions process is rather thorough, but does anyone have some insight they would like to share about how the new decision will affect the admissions process?</p>
<p>Hello lovlies! Another girl here. SeaGrape- I was wondering the same. It’s possible we’ll have an advantage (go us for having the balls to apply without actually, you know, having the balls). Ok all terrible puns and sexist sayings aside, I am wondering if there will be a significant number of girls applying. Deep Springs was always one of my fantasy schools when it was all male, but now that I’m applying the coeducation transition seems a bit daunting. I’ve got a romanticized idea of a 18th century salon meets Rodney Yee (don’t worry I won’t start name droppin’ like ThePinko… he’s just a little man who makes yoga videos in the desert). What drew you all to ds?</p>
<p>Hiii!
I’m thinking the admissions will probably work in our favor as well. I’m not sure if enough girls know about it to have a applicant pool that could rival the guys’ in quantity. And is it stereotyping to wonder if as many girl will be interested in living on ranch for two years as guys might be? Although I definitely know a few other girls who are thinking of applying… (myself included!!) I originally found DS from stumbling across a vanity fair article on it. I believe the line was something along the lines of “many find deep springs unappealing, but some look at it and think this place is so ****ing crazy I think it’s for me.” I basically agreed with that reaction. 
What initially drew you to it?</p>
<p>Livivid I definitely share your romanticized ideal of Deep Springs. And congratulations to all of us ladies for having some seriously big cojones. :)</p>
<p>Lets hope we have an advantage! The looming threat seems to be that not enough girls will apply and then no girls will be admitted. </p>
<p>Well, as a girl yourself, I don’t know why you would think that men would be more interested in Deep Springs than women! The notion that women are these frail creatures who don’t enjoy the same activities as men is definitely coming close to stereotyping. I know that is not what you were intending to say, but I just want to make a clear distinction. </p>
<p>Deep Springs seems to bring some of the most intellegent students together under one roof;I think that for long-term knowledge,you can learn more from your classmates than most professors.</p>
<p>Is anyone a vegetarian? Thoughts on that at Deep Springs…</p>
<p>I read that a few years ago, they actually had a vegetarian butcher.
I’m one of those people who is perpetually considering veganism, but my will is not as strong as in my fantasies. But perhaps in the future…
I’ve started with my essays. Have any of you? Ideas on possible topics? Everything is happening so quickly! November is just two short months away!
Storm clouds on the horizon! They make my heart well with urgency and excitement!</p>
<p>Sea Grape, yeah you’re totally right. I don’t think girls are remotely frail and it ****es me off to no end when others think that. I guess I was just comparing Deep Springs, as a manual labor intensive college, to the only other colleges I know like that, military colleges, which always have more men than women. Obviously though, after I considered it for like another 2 seconds, I realized it was ridiculous to compare Deep Springs to a military college, so please consider my previous comment completely redacted. :)</p>
<p>If you do a quick YouTube search for the term “factory farm,” and watch a few disgusting videos, I am sure that will be the catalyst you need to bring you to vegetarianism. </p>
<p>I erroneously assumed the first essay (“tell us about yourself”) would be the easiest, due to the familiarity with the subject matter, but it is so hard to really put pen to paper and write a thorough piece. </p>
<p>Will do, ellejr! Since you are applying as a transfer, where would you receive your final degree? Would you transfer back after Deep Springs?</p>
<p>I actually decided to go to college abroad (getting on the plane tomorrow eek!), so it’s not exactly a program I can switch in and out of. After Deep Springs, I would theoretically probably just transfer to an American college, and hope that that college would allow me to draw requirements from my three previous years so that I could graduate with a double major. </p>
<p>However that’s never going to happen if I don’t figure out what to write for the essays!! I think sometimes the more open ended a question is the trickier it is to truly write a good essay. I liked the essay questions they chose, despite the difficulty. It’s by far the most interesting college application I’ve ever worked on. Most college applications are so general now, this one feels like they’re actually truly trying to figure out how we think and if we’re going to be compatible with the school’s ideology. </p>
<p>The strangest aspect of this application for me is that out peers are going to be reading our essays! So different from writing an essay for some faceless admissions officer, but almost more intimidating…</p>
<p>What a plan! Best of luck for that. As far as the personal essay-- I completely agree. I’ve been getting my hands a bit dirtier for that subject, figuring I might as well bare my thought process now and see if I’m a good fit. I’m a slam poet and I want some of that essence to come through, but I’m a bit nervous it will be too convoluted. (After all, DS students have solid cores in philosophy and we all know how Socrates feels about sophists =p). Here’s hoping our apps will get a reading!</p>
<p>Convolution is my greatest worry for my analytic essay. My personal one is a broader examination of some themes I was only able to touch on briefly in my Common App, and my Why Deep Springs? essay is equal parts unabashed gushing and wishful daydreaming.
Slam poetry? I’ve always been interested in that. I only started writing poetry about eight months ago, and I’m pretty much in the dark as to how slam works. Sounds very interesting. Better than whatever paltry thing I have cooking.</p>
<p>I’m a male, and I think that it is really great that women will have the opportunity to go to deep springs, and what I think is really great is that it was a thoughtful decision.
I’ve been reared a vegetarian, but I’ve also tanned rabbit hides and respect others decisions to eat meat.
To address thepinko/wonderlandwed, it’s disconcerting that you both feel the need to out pour so many emotions and criticisms over the faceless Internet, and I hope for your sakes that your essays are more consistent than your attacks.</p>
<p>Oh, I hope you didn’t get the impression of an attack from our conversation.
Wonderlandwed and I had a conversation in private, afterwards, where we (or at least I) made genuine discursive progress. There was very little hostility there, and I’m honestly a bit confused as to the source of your grave misinterpretation of our conversation.
I think the “faceless internet”, as you put it, is a great place to pour emotions out. I have plenty of friends I know only via the internet, and I don’t think our bond is any weaker for having not met in person.
I also think your comment is a bit mean. I never at any point insulted you. Why would you criticize one person’s “attack” (which was, in truth, a misinterpretation on your part of an emotional conversation), only to follow said criticism with an unprovoked one of your own?
Really a mean comment.</p>
<p>I worry that came across as an carping, I may have been pouring out too many of my emotions out at the time, as I was struck with a head cold and needed a good nights sleep.
Sorry for contributing to any divulgence from conversing about deep springs.
Cheers</p>
<p>Has anyone else had trouble writing the second essay
“2. Analyze and evaluate a problem, theory, or idea that has had profound influence on your thought. You may draw from
any source, but please dont submit a research paper or something youve written for class.”
Every time I’ve started a draft it comes off like a dull academic analysis. Andy advice?</p>
<p>Hrrrrm.
Maybe just subject matter?
Looking over previous years’ threads, I see one person wrote an essay drawing a thread (somehow) between John Cage’s art piece 4’33" and the infinite prison paintings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. An original idea, to be sure. And an interesting one.
My current drafts are all on diagonal paradoxes and their supposed solutions, but it’s constantly seeming 1. a bit too played out, and 2. a bit dull, same issue as yours.
So in short? I’m a bit stumped. Maybe I should draw from across fields? Try to connect the work of a philosopher with the work of someone working in other media or formats? That seems to make everything a bit more interesting, at least.</p>
<p>Ya, your right ThePinko, definitely too played out; if I had a penny for every time I read an essay about “diagonal paradoxes and their supposed solutions”…</p>
<p>Diagonal paradoxes <em>are</em> a pretty obvious thing to write about, especially if you’re into analytic philosophy. I mean – I personally couldn’t count the number of essays or articles I’ve read on diagonal paradoxes.
It would end up being essentially a rehash and re-analysis of a bunch of things I’d read.
Diagonal paradoxes are certainly interesting, but they’re well-covered ground in mathematics and modern philosophy. I’d just be walking on beaten paths.</p>
<p>Phew, the applicants here are fiercely intellectual as expected.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I’d like to join the boat as an international transfer. (Yep, foreign citizen from foreign university) I have my SAT scores and all but I don’t really know how my qualifications will work out. I’ll just try to shine with the essays since, if it’s true, DS looks mostly at the essays and interviews.</p>
<p>I think I saw another transfer applicant in this thread? As for the future transfer after DS, I inquired them about it yesterday and their reply was:</p>
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<p>Thank you for your interest in Deep Springs. I’ll answer your questions individually:</p>
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<li><p>We accept transfer students, but credits do not transfer. As a result, you will need to attend Deep Springs for the entire two years to graduate.</p></li>
<li><p>You are correct that some schools do not accept students with more than 2 years of transfer credits, but many others do. We regularly accept transfer students who then go on to transfer to other schools. As a transfer student myself, I have done a minimal amount of research into the matter and believe that a number of “competitive” private schools, such as Stanford and Brown, accept students with more than two years worth of credits (note that I am not an official source on this matter, and you should look into the policies of any specific school you may be interested in). Additionally, there is always the possibility of appealing to an institution that has a limit and obtaining an exception.</p></li>
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<p>I hope this will be a help to other prospective transfer applicants. Appealing sounds so badass imo.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting that response! i didn’t even know it was possible to get more than two years of credits transferred. Very good to know!</p>