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...Deep Springs is an two-year all-male liberal arts college guided by the precepts of “academics, labor, and self-governance,” according to the school’s Web site. Given its rigorous application process of seven essays plus a four-day visit and interview, each entering class consists of only 12 men. There are four to six professors in residence who teach classes of approximately four students each. Pupils hire and fire their own faculty and work 20 hours a week at jobs ranging from working cattle to cooking food for the group...
...cutting off technology is just one example of Deep Springs’ attempts to isolate itself. Strict rules and long academic terms prevent students from leaving for much of the year, and the campus is surrounded by desert on all sides...
...Though there’s no formal relationship, a significant proportion of each Deep Springs class leaves the desert Harvard-bound. “Over the years, the Transfer Admissions Committee has seen many superb applicants from Deep Springs and has admitted a fair number of those candidates,” E. Marlene V. Rotner, a Harvard senior admissions officer, wrote in an e-mail...
...Kids who attend Deep Springs were usually Harvard material while in high school. Students from the Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP), a competitive program for gifted high school juniors, often continue at Deep Springs and colleges like Harvard—there are at least seven TASP alums in Harvard’s 2010 class. TASP was founded in 1911 by Ohio-born electrical entrepreneur L.L. Nunn. He would found Deep Springs...
...Despite the top-notch quality of its students, Deep Springs’ community has critics. Over the past two years, Deep Springs has received an influx of media coverage with prominent articles in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Both articles tout the cowboy-intellectual aspect of the college, and students say in doing so the articles missed the meaningfulness of Deep Springs...