<p>Deep Springs College in CO.</p>
<p>They only admit about 10 students a year, and have a student body of 26 kids, all men. Very rural, with students acting as ranch hands when they are not in class.</p>
<p>Just some interesting stuff.</p>
<p>Sounds like Brokeback Mountain...</p>
<p>yeah i heard about it. its not really the norm for college life though...</p>
<p>I believe Deep Springs is in Nevada.</p>
<p>At any rate, I wonder how its alumni do in placement after graduation?</p>
<p>It is a two year program. They are routinely admitted to Ivies and other top schools as transfer students. Tuition, room, and board are "free", other than having to do work on the ranch.</p>
<p>^ I see. Interesting hmm.</p>
<p>if you want to go there just because of success in transfer admissions, it's not worth it</p>
<p>its in colorado, not nevada</p>
<p>Actually, Deep Springs's postal address is in Nevada, but the college itself is in California.</p>
<p>Juilliard School has a 5% acceptance rate, supposedly.</p>
<p>Deep Springs is what they call "alternative education." You definitely have to want that lifestyle -- working the fields + education. Only about 100 apply each year, I think.</p>
<p>No, more than 100 apply every year.</p>
<p>It's surprisingly popular and it's a really cool program.</p>
<p>That said, most alternative programs or art schools (RISD, UMIchigan Musical Theatre) are super competitive just because they're so small.</p>
<p>The # people who apply varies, it seems.</p>
<p>"It is entirely possible that an incoming class might contain as few as 11 or as many as 15 students and select from a pool of between 100 and 200--which means our selectivity can vary between 15% and 6% year-to-year."</p>
<p>I wouldn't call 100-200 "popular." Though that's just me.</p>
<p>Also, regarding its location:</p>
<p>"Our postal address is just over the state line in Dyer, NV, but Deep Springs is on Highway 168 in Inyo County, California. Deep Springs sits in a mountain valley in the Inyo-Whites, just east of the Owens Valley and the Sierra Nevada. The nearest gas station is in Big Pine, CA, and the nearest town with a selection of services and stores is Bishop, CA, which is 40 miles and an hour's drive away."</p>
<p>Heh, I never realized how close Deep Springs is to me.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate doesnt matter, because any college can just decide on its acceptance rate.</p>
<p>It's highly prestigious</p>
<p>Prestigious? Maybe. Hanging out with 30 dudes for two years on a ranch seems more brokeback than prestigious lol.</p>
<p>Do they even have a campus?</p>
<p>There was an article about it in the New Yorker about a year ago.</p>
<p>In terms of transferring, I seem to remember reading that a quarter of the class goes to Harvard (a quarter being 3 or 4 students), a quarter to the University of Chicago, and everybody else scatters, but I think almost all go on to elite schools.</p>
<p>^ It's unique at best :D</p>
<p>Why does everyone seem to think that selective=good?
I'm sure Deep Springs is great for some people (it sounds really interesting to me!) but it sounds like you can't wrap your head around the idea of it being more selective than the ivies because you wouldn't want to go there. You don't have to love every selective school. Being selective doesn't mean it is right for everyone.</p>
<p>This reminds me of the story of Brown, who, I think it was in the 1960's, decided not to just go by numbers anymore but instead by a student's passion, or talent in one area, concerning admissions. They decided that by just going with perfect SAT's and GPA's they were getting a lot of grinds and not people who were necessarily going to go on to be leaders, famous, innovative, etc. That first year there were people who got in to Harvard, Yale and Princeton, but not in to Brown. There was an uproar! Brown was now the most selective! And for many years after that it was the "hot" school, because if you could get in to Brown you must really be something! Well, to some extent it was true, but the whole "selective" thing is really just so circular and, it seems to me, so artificially created and not necessarily based on real quality.</p>