Applicants must write seven lengthy essays; if they're in the top tier, they're invited for a four-day trial run.
The payoff, graduates say, is classes as challenging and passionate as the best Harvard seminars.
William W. Erickson '00-'01 describes his Deep Springs coursework as a moral duty--not the way most Harvard students would put it.
In a class of three or four, he says, if one person skips the reading, then he has failed in his responsibility to educate his colleagues. Not surprisingly, almost everyone does the work.
With only 10 classes offered each semester, there isn't much room for electives. But the upside is that students vote on what fields they'd like to study, then hire the professors themselves.
Go East, Young Man
In recent years, what Wambsgans calls "the big Deep Springs diaspora" has centered on the University of Chicago, Yale and Cornell.
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