I see your 99.9999% and i raise you 99.99999999% and the neighbors don't count.
i love the disclaimer on there website "Due to its isolated location, the college operates its own fire safety team"
I had never heard of it but I had nothing better to do and am a very curious person. I had no idea there were institutions that small that call themselves a college. https://www.deepsprings.edu/student-directory/
Denny-- unless it gets some pretty hefty news coverage, should that be more like 99.9999% of Americans have never heard of it?
Never heard of it. U. S. News and World Report has this summary of it. Note that it's only a two-year school.
This two-year liberal arts school only enrolls about 14 students for each incoming class. Students work on the school's cattle ranch and alfalfa farm and receive scholarships to cover tuition and room and board for two years.
An all-male school, Deep Springs planned to admit female students in 2013, but a judge barred the school from doing so after alumni sued the institution. Most students transfer to a four-year college to complete their degree. As a two-year institution, Deep Springs is not included in the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings.
It sounds like a very interesting college and quite possibly a worthwhile experience. It sounds quite unconventional and one would need to be fairly well motivated... and, of course, ready to transfer to a four-year college.
Note that it is (emphatically!) a "liberal arts school." It's important to understand what that means. Notice that it has a heavy emphasis on writing. It sounds as if it would be a suitable choice for someone who was already proficient in English to developing their English abilities farther.
You should look carefully over the course offerings, starting at page 7 of their Academic Course Catalog.
By contemporary U.S. standards it is heavy on humanities; arts, philosophy, poetry, drama, and light on what would be considered the kind of career-oriented material for people hoping to land a high-salaried job right after graduation. I see only one professor of any "engineering" discipline, and he's described as a "short-term professor, 2012."
Ms. Tan, how in the world did you hear about this institution? It feels like a Christmas gift, finding out about it, and thank you. It's fascinating to know that students move onto the best universities in the US, and onto advanced degrees, and count among them Rhodes and Truman scholars. There are no more than 30 students at any one time, the tuition and boarding is free, and students work on a ranch for (minimum) 20 hours a week...
I think I can confirm that no one, including its entire (about) 1000 alumni, have ever heard of the school.
