<p>heeeelllllll yeesssssssssssssssss I'm so happyyy</p>
<p>BANZAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>One step closer, baby.</p>
<p>So anyone know the essay topics for this part yet? We have a month to work on 4 of them and I don't want to be like part 1 again (running to the post office to catch the mail to get the postmark date). I definitely won't get started tonight (exams tomarrow) but I'd like to have an inkling of what to expect.</p>
<p>Christmas break I'll be working really hard on part 2. I really want to send them good essays. But, sorry. . . no I don't know yet. But don't worry. We're gonna get whatever it is they sent us tomorrow, probably. I've been thinking about the essays, and I decided to get ready to write good essays by relaxing a bit. This week is rough. I took my collie puppy, Seamus, on a long run and then played the piano. </p>
<p>I, too, have loads of work to do by Friday, in the mean time. Later I'll be writing about the Iliad, Henry IV pt.1, Henry V, Hamlet, and Antony and Cleopatra in a massive essay.</p>
<p>It's Thursday, and I still haven't recieved mail. I guess I'll get it tomorrow.</p>
<p>I'm not applying, just interested in what they cooked up this year...</p>
<p>Do they change second stage essay topics every year? Because nowhere in all the college literature or anywhere on the internet could I find anything about second stage essay topics. I assumed they were just kept secret, but I guess that can't be it, because nothing in the application packet said anything about not revealing the second stage questions.</p>
<p>I also thought it was weird that there are few people on the internet who posted up their round one DS essays from years ago when they had applied, but absolutely nobody posted any of their second stage essays.</p>
<p>Must be top secret....I mean after all the instructions to get out there are basically "head south from Reno 'till you get to a certain town, then wait for a brown van to come pick you up". I suspect we'll get there for the interview and be told this is a secret society that works for the government or something. [Sarcasm] </p>
<p>On a more serious note, I think they do change the second round questions every year. I remember reading somewhere that it's up to ApCom to come up with them every year.</p>
<p>Anyone want to post the second round ques.? (just curious)</p>
<p>sure</p>
<ol>
<li>two teacher recs</li>
<li>transcripts and test scores</li>
<li>term paper or essay for a class with teacher comments attached</li>
<li>optional creative work that you'd like the admissions com to consider</li>
<li>each essay may not exceed 1500 words
A. choose a virtue that is popularly misunderstood. Explain the popular understanding. Offer and support a better understanding.
B. Describe a problem in your high school or community. Propose plausible and concrete steps to address it.
C. What is the purpose of a college education both for the student and for society? What is YOUR purpose in pursuing a college education? You may use the following excerpt as an example or as a platform for agreeing or disagreeing.
D. What does it mean to be employed in the service of your fellow men? How can a blacksmith be so employed? An 1924 excerpt of L. L. Nunn is included.</li>
</ol>
<p>I want to apply so bad!!!!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaahh!!! I'm going to Columbia, though. . . . argggh and yay, I just don't know what to think. I have such plans for number 4 and letter D. oh man. I want to apply to DS anyway. I got into round 2. Every school that does ED should switch to single choice EA.</p>
<p>Talk to admissions at Columbia and see if you can delay matriculation for 2 years (if you get in) and get guaranteed admission as a transfer. I am sure they will work something out if you explain deep springs to them and talk to a big-wig at the Admissions Office. Sure they won't get tuition but they want people like you...and they understand that you want to go to Columbia as well...</p>
<p>no, they say in the FAQ that you can't delay matriculation to attend another school</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone whose part II apps are getting into the mail right about now and in the next few days! (Why am I so jealous?! I'm already going college next year!)</p>
<p>Around midnight last night Max stumbled out of his bedroom with the final draft of his last round two essay. I'd reckon he spent nearly a hundred hours on these essays, sometimes getting sidetracked; waylaid by a history of blacksmithing, or a treatise on the the original goal of the Thirteenth Century University. He visits DSC at the end of the month. For several years Max was all about Columbia -- until he visited the campus and discovered much to his surprise that he liked Cornell better. Cornell is a comfortable old shoe filled with memories of aunts and uncles and grandparents and great grandparents. Ithaca is a place he has visited again and again throughout his life. But Deep Springs... Deep Springs is a mystery and the allure of something unknown. I hope he likes it. I hope they like him.</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>
<p>I wanted to write that Blacksmith essay! I had a clever idea :-( Good thing he spent tons of time on the essays. I hope he gets in and discovers his hard work was worth it. I hope when I get to Columbia I discover that the price tag is worth it. . . .</p>
<p>Umm...wow. I spent a ton of time on my essays but it was more or less writing and revising not researching stuff like that. But also MontereyDad, isn't there a Telluride House at Cornell? You probably know about that already if everyone in your family went there, but I think it's interesting that's another connection to L.L. Nunn.</p>