<p>This one surprised me. I didn't think that Deep Springs did too much outbound marketing. I wonder how many they send out. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>at last someone opened new topic here…
I’ve no idea how many they send out, but I’m excited to get know somebody applying to DS.
are you going to apply?</p>
<p>I’m really fascinated by DS, and I will be applying. </p>
<p>I’m also really surprised that they’ve sent out recruitment brochures</p>
<p>I got one from Deep Springs a few weeks ago; surprised me. I’ve never heard of this college, seems like a good program. It’s tiny though, and the work/all guy thing kinda freaked me out.
However, I like how it focuses on speaking/writing more than science/math. The prestige and acceptance rates at other schools also amazed me.</p>
<p>I got the same brochure, and I fell in love.
I am for sure applying, but I’m a little worried about the book list. I’m really a math/science/social studies person, and english is not my favorite. I think my list of books is both too short and not rich enough…</p>
<p>I’m glad someone is posting!</p>
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Me too. It’s not that I don’t like reading, but in the past year, I haven’t had much time to read books outside of class.</p>
<p>I’m international, and actually I’m quite worried about my English…reading a lot to catch up with you guys:))</p>
<p>My understanding is that they send out brochures to the top 2% of SAT scorers–male only, of course. I could be wrong though. </p>
<p>I’m glad to see the new season’s Deep Springs threads starting up. I read over some of them last year, but now I’ll be able to meet others who will be applying with me.</p>
<p>Im really surprised there are so many deep springs applicants on CC… considering how few there are.</p>
<p>my book list is pretty much all required readings, save a book of short stories, one or two novels and a couple harry potter books. That cannot be good.</p>
<p>I was also wondering if anyone knew how many people they ask to complete part two of the application?.. I don’t want to get my hopes up, but i’m really hoping make it.</p>
<p>and not to monopolize this thread, one more thing. How does one begin to answer the second essay question? Am I the only one who has tried, failed, and is now completely lost?</p>
<p>They invite about 40 applicants to complete round 2 application.</p>
<p>How are the essays coming? Has anyone sent in their application yet?</p>
<p>It’s crunchtime, that’s for sure! I’ve been cranking them out over the last three days because next week is finals week and I need the weekend to study. At this point I have them all written but I’m 600 words over between the first two prompts so I’ll have to do some major trimming. </p>
<p>How about you? Which prompt did you find most difficult to write on?</p>
<p>Im dying on the first one, “tell us about the most influential aspects of your experience and environment”</p>
<p>I have a really bad answer for it, and Im going to be fixing it this weekend. I hate to say it, but I’m going to be mailing mine at the last possible moment.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m pushing to get mine out on the 13th but it’s been a battle. I realized I’d forgotten a major part of my response to the first essay and added it after my last post. I ended up being 1100 words over and now I’m trying to cut all the fat I can find and condense everything else. I had trouble with the same essay as you did, but my problem was I wrote a 2100 word answer.</p>
<p>I was hoping to get my App. out today, but unfortunately I did not. I’m still waiting on one more person to send me peer revisions on my essays. </p>
<p>Going to have to personally put it in the post office reception area (for personal assurance, for some reason i keep thinking that the USPS will fail me directly on the day it has be postmarked by). </p>
<p>Heh.</p>
<p>Typeface, I am in the exact same position. I thought I was going to get it out yesterday but I had too much consolidating to do. I have personally slain a forest in my revising.</p>
<p>The end is near.</p>
<p>Oh CustosMellium, the poor trees!</p>
<p>I had a particular problem with this, in that i was using a mechanical typewriter for all supplements outside of the essays (Book lists, activities, other info.). Mechanical typewriters are incredibly unforgiving, and i went through a stack of paper probably 3/4 of an inch tall before i finally got 2 copies of all my supplements hammered out.</p>
<p>Haha, that sounds like an adventure. I hope the future sees fit for us to talk sometime about why you used a typewriter!</p>
<p>Even with my computer and two printers I must have gone through about 1/3" of paper that I didn’t even use in the final draft. I was up at 3200 words between #1 and #2 before I brought them back to 2000. You get to the point where you’re so entrenched in the essay that you can reread it five times and not catch the omitted words or other errors. </p>
<p>Now I’m facing finals week and I haven’t even gotten around to studying for my first final yet. But I had to hop on here and see if anyone had posted anything about finishing. Signing my name on those forms was very satisfying.</p>
<p>Typeface - thats exactly what Im doing! I sent it out, and now the waiting begins. I don’t know what I think of my essay, but theyre well under the limit. I think in total I used about 1300 words… I kind of feel bad about writing so little, but I feel I gave my full answer, so there it is.</p>
<p>deep breaths</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got applications off. I know of no more challenging set of essays on any college application.</p>