<p>Admission rate =/= selectivity.</p>
<p>And I would much rather have those two years of my life than go there.</p>
<p>Admission rate = marketing</p>
<p>Selectivity = strength of enrolling class</p>
<p>Btw, why would someone go to Deep Springs to transfer to a top private...do they take real classes that transfer? Do they graduate in four years? How can they get involved in campus life if they spent the past two years on a farm/ranch?</p>
<p>Besides the low acceptance rate, the midranges according to CB:</p>
<p>Verbal: 750-800
Math: 710-750</p>
<p>Pretty damn good.</p>
<p>They do take real classes, classes that are on par with any of the elites except more intense. Discussion goes on all the time, even way into the night. And the theory behind the farm/ranch work is that they are building their minds and bodies and exploring not only their limits but are pushed to engage with the world in ways that ensure they define self assurance, confidence and self awareness. They transfer to anywhere they want, universities love Deep Springs. They do seem to favor Harvard and Chicago.</p>
<p>Don't quote me, but I believe that Deep Springs graduates number ridiculously high in power positions.( IE: Senate, congress, judges and the like...Vanity Fair ran an article on them years ago after one student died doing chores)</p>
<p>uh, if there are like 30 students i don't see how they can have many classes that would be useful for completing a degree in 4 years.</p>
<p>brand182 - those midrange scores seem on par with every top 15 school if they eliminated favored admissions for URMs and sports...</p>
<p>On the contrary, the small class size would not only enable but require course participation.</p>
<p>Thethoughtprocess they must be doing something right as they've been around a long time and their graduates are considered the best and brightest.</p>
<p>The hardest schools in the country to be accepted to are Julliard and, even slightly moreso, Curtis Institute of Music. Depending on the year, Curtis can opt not to take anyone on a given instrument/part just because they didn't like anyone who auditioned. You won't find any other school in the country that just decides not to fill up their quota because the applicants didn't meet their fancy.</p>
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<p>Having gone to prestigious schools, I think I'd trade prestige for brokeback. :D</p>
<p>Prestige is overrated. Brokeback is priceless!</p>
<p>Deep Springs is quite obviously not for everybody. It's right for the one person I know who goes there, who is part tortured poet, part Nietzsche- quoting Abercrombie and Fitch poster boy. He'll most likely end up at either Harvard or Chicago when he's done at Deep Springs, as he'll fit in perfectly at either place.</p>
<p>I find it funny that the hardest programs in the world to get into are usually music, art, and drama, which 99% of people despise partly because the teachers judging 'talent' in those areas are usually crazy fascist-graders</p>
<p>I wonder if they have frats there.</p>
<p>My question regarding the curriculum: if theres only 30 people...how do they have enough classes so that they won't be too far behind when they transfer to a BA program. Its not as if Deep Springs will have intro. to chem, polisci, econ, bio, math, english, etc. So for kids interested in getting a degree from a 4-year college they almost definitely will need extra classes to graduate from a BA program at the same time as their fellow HS graduates.</p>
<p>Like, if you want to major in Econ, you'd have to take the intro Econ sequence at (elite school name here), or have classes that transfer, but Deep Springs probably doesn't have Micro, Macro, Intermediate, Econometrics, etc. available since its so small, so Deep Spring transfers will need to take them at their new school while juniors, instead of freshmen/sophomore year. </p>
<p>I guess it doesn't matter if you're a lit or english major.</p>
<p>Also, Ramses, for some reason I don't think Deep Springs has many people in Congress or positions of power, just because they don't seem the type. I mean, they are going to a ranch/college hybrid instead of an Ivy...thats like the opposite of networking.</p>
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<p>well, they are tiny to begin with anyway. so even if they are the type, u won't find many in Congree or whatever either way. but i agree the students are probably more the quirky type</p>
<p>indeed, course offering is very limited. no, there's no econ sequence.</p>
<p>but i still like brokeback!!!! :D</p>
<p>Found this:</p>
<p>"Deep Springers-and there are only 13 a class-include ambassador to the United Nations William J. vanden Heuvel, now the co-chairman of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; famed CBS newsman Charles Collingwood; Virginia congressman Jim Olin; top Internet entrepreneurs; edgy novelists William Vollmann and Peter Rock; Tim Oslovich, a Lutheran pastor to native Alaskans; and Norton Dodge, an economist who through spycraft and smuggling single-handedly saved underground Russian art from total oblivion during the Cold War. Roughly 80 percent go on as juniors to colleges such as Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Chicago, Cornell, and Oxford, while the remainder typically embark on a year of service first. For the fifth time in three years, a Deep Springer has won a Truman scholarship, a highly prestigious fellowship for students embarking on careers in public service."</p>
<p>EWW!!!! worst college ever. you'd have to be insane to go there.</p>
<p>Whats the acceptace rate for Brown's PLME program?</p>
<p>PLME isn't the most competitive combined med program anyway. But either way, we are talking about admit rate of a whole school.</p>
<p>what does it say about me that I considered asking my parents for a sex-change operation after I saw the Deep Springs brochure?</p>
<p>(I also wanted to get my brain fixed to be math/science instead of English/history after I read the Harvey Mudd brochure).</p>
<p>Is there 2 Deep Springs? I thought it's in CA. Here is the link, maybe it's borderline CA and NV</p>