Even at Harvard, many Deep Springs graduates still sport generous facial hair.
But the funky, outdoorsman style leads some to overlook the college's genuine academic rigor. In reality, Deep Springs is one of the toughest colleges in the country.
"It's really like being on a desert island, but it's a desert island with a library," Wood says.
The college is "a really strange hybrid of blue collar and intellectual," Gravois says.
When he arrived, Gravois says he was startled by the "shrewdness" of the other students.
"When I entered Deep Springs I was all about nature, beat poetry and rugged individualism," he says. "I was a hippie of sorts and I thought I'd find like minds at Deep Springs...but I did have my intellectual sloppiness challenged early on."
The college's acceptance rate puts even Harvard to shame. Only about seven percent of the 200 or so men who apply each year are accepted, compared to 12 percent at Harvard.
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