<p>What made you like/love this school? anyone aceepted? what made you want to attend? your comments welcome.</p>
<p>Well......?</p>
<p>I wish someone who was going would reply to this, since I got into round 2 and then canceled my application because I'm going to Columbia, about as opposite a school as can be in terms of location, size of the location (even though lots of schools have bigger student bodies, New York City is very very big), gender. </p>
<p>But I'll just say that I was planning on applying only to city schools or schools near cities because there tends to be better music going on in those places. But Deep Springs was my only exception, and I told all my interviewers and anybody else who asked that DS was the only exception, because I was too interested in it to leave it off my list.</p>
<p>I looked at ww.deepsprings.edu because my college counselor told me it was an interesting free school. And I was like, wait, free? So I cruised around on the website and decided it was awesome. My counselor told me that when she's feeling bored or down she looks at Deep Springs stuff. And then I got the brochure, which was far and away the best brochure I got from any school. You know those thick, spiral bound, polished books from the fancy schools? With all the glossy staged pictures? Yeah, those are not nearly as informative as the Deep Springs brochure. The pictures are amazing, and it seems to me like it's written by students in the college. I think the website is written by students in the college, too. I'm not positive about that, but I know communications committee, comcom deals with that stuff, and there's a lot of student participation. Same goes with the newsletters, with great pictures and more articles written by students.</p>
<p>I was impressed by what seemed like a genuine interest in college. I know it's stupid, but princeton review, <a href="http://www.review.com%5B/url%5D">www.review.com</a>, gave Deep Springs the highest rating possible in every category. 99 in academics, quality of life, financial aid, admissions. Only UChicago matched that academics score. No school matched the quality of life rating, which also impressed me even though I think the imformation you can get from a visit (which I never did because of Columbia) is much better than the information you can get from an online rating. But still, it's a good sign. I believe only Princeton matched the finaid rating, although Princeton is not free and Deep Springs is, and that is a big difference. So think of the Deep Springs 99 as a better 99. Pets allowed, too, which I thought could be good.</p>
<p>One drawback to Deep Springs is having to deal with applications again in just over a year. Another drawback is the lack of a huge library and the lack of serious research. But as a first- and second-year student anywhere else, you wouldn't be using much of that anyway. So that doesn't count. Another drawback, which was also a good thing, was the isolation. Good and bad. It's great in so many ways, having so much amazing land to go and see, to be with a small population, on a farm. It's nice. But at the same time, I'm a musician. And what finally convinced me to go to Columbia was my mom's bit of advice. I would be able to do much more music in a city, and my mom finally said that learning an instrument depends a lot on continuing it and spending a lot of time with it. Technique goes away with every day of missed practice. And I love to go to concerts, and I don't expect I would be hearing or playing many concerts in the desert. I love playing around informally, but it's nice to hear and play professional live concerts. So I decided on a city school because of music. </p>
<p>If I hadn't been a musician, Deep Springs would have been my first choice. I made my college list based a ton on music except for Deep Springs. Princeton loves musicians, Columbia is in NYC, Rice University has a great music school with great cello teachers, Northwestern has the amazing Hans Jensen teaching cello (he is the best ever), Case Western-CIM, Oberlin-Oberlin Conservatory (not so hot, I don't think, because though I liked Oberlin I didn't like the conservatory because the students I heard there weren't good), UChicago is in a city with a great orchestra, and besides, the school just has a really great atmosphere I thought, with great old-fashioned style, UMichigan-Ann Arbor is also a good academic school with a good music department. So. . . </p>
<p>Check out the website and decide for yourself. You have to really want it if you want to do well there.</p>
<p>Being an all male school, do you think it scared your parents?</p>
<p>They were like, you know there are no girls there, right? And I was like, yeah I did figure that out. I don't think it scared them. It didn't scare me either, but some people are uncomfortable with it. Whatever.</p>
<p>i think my parent might think that if i went all male that i would be gay.</p>
<p>i think my parent might think that if i went all male that i would be gay. They will want to know my reason
1. concentrate on srudies
that's as far as i got</p>
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<li>it's only two years, 2. there are reasons to go to college other than sex, 3. show me a coed school that is this interesting, 4. it's free, 5. the other people are really smart, 6. they're all there to work, 7. show me a more awesome college campus, 8. show me a more rigorous application process, 9. this is obviously/probably gonna get me a good education so what is your problem?</li>
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<p>do not the ends justify the means?</p>
<p>I don't think it has to be the ONLY way you can succeed. . . most of the kids who go there could succeed elsewhere, too. I think it's just that they especially want to go there. On the other hand, vig180 visited the place, and I didn't. I, personally, love summer camps. And. . . also. . . big cities. . . eh, just decide what you like, Wabash. I guess this isn't your application year, so you'll probably figure this out in the coming year. </p>
<p>And don't care so much about what your parents and other people think. </p>
<p>I also think that your education is what you make of it. I always think that if other kids don't like a class, screw them, it doesn't mean it's a bad class or that I won't or shouldn't like the class. If other people don't like a book, it doesn't mean I won't like it or that I shouldn't like it. If other people like something I really hate, well so be it. If the class isn't what I expected, then I'll just make it into what I want. It's usually not impossible to do that. So you should prepare yourself to enjoy college, wherever you go.</p>