Deep Springs College

geek_mom
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:18:17 +0000

menloparkmom:

I personally think that for most students and parents here on CC, perhaps part of the reason that so few apply to Deep Springs is the thinking is - why go through the application process twice?

I’d guess it has more to do with the whole “getting up at 5am every day to do exhausting physical labor in nearly complete seclusion with your couple dozen classmates, all guys, who have the power to decide whether or not you can skip a day of chores to go visit your girlfriend or your family” thing. The college application process doesn’t sound like that big a deal compared with digging ditches, wrangling and butchering cattle, and cooking and cleaning on a daily basis. Deep Springs is definitely all about fit!