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<p>I completely feel the same way. This problem’s especially acute when, like me, you attend a high school with 150 kids – not a very wide selection. AND you’re a Bob Dylan fan. Awesome.</p>
<p>I agree with Yeoman and lessist. </p>
<p>@dunbar: you mean cornell univ?</p>
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<p>yeoman, to make it even worse, not only is my school about 150 kids (and it’s one of the biggest in the state, i believe), it’s in delaware. which means that even state-wide i have…virtually no options. the isolation is tolerable but i always have to believe that one day (and i was hoping that day would be this summer) i will meet others like me. but i guess i can wait. <em>shrug</em> yep, bob dylan is the best. </p>
<p>yeah, i meant the telluride house at cornell or umich.</p>
<p>one can apply to only a house at cornell?</p>
<p>I’ve heard that cornell has a lot of ‘mendatory’ parties and drinks and I just don’t like this atmosphere.</p>
<p>I would absolutely love to socialize with each and everyone one of you. We could have our own set up seminar and talk about issues we find interesting and important and such, and I think it’d be rather fun!</p>
<p>Eh. Delaware’s probably better than the cesspool that is Ohio.</p>
<p>What’s the Ivy Scholars program like? It sounds interesting…</p>
<p>not really. delaware’s small size makes everything seem more claustrophobic.</p>
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i would’ve preferred something more…related to the humanities but the focus on public speaking, government, etc. is right up my alley so i’m happy. the prospectus is mind-numbingly long, though. but the due date isn’t until may!</p>
<p>Hmm… Anybody considering anything at Brown this summer, or a similar “Summer University” program? I went to one at Johns Hopkins last summer, and it was a pretty good experience. The course (on human rights, terrorism, and IR) was taught by a grad student who was a smart, engaging teacher. However, they’re nowhere near as selective as TASP, Ivy Scholars, etc. There were some fairly intelligent, interesting people there, but those who attended were defined as much by their socioeconomic background as by their intellectual prowess.</p>
<p>Anyway, if anybody’s interested in one of these programs (I know Columbia, Stanford, Brown, and maybe Georgetown have them) let us know, and maybe we can try to take the same course or something.</p>
<p>I doubt that I’ll do anything organized now. My only options are a non-science research internship with a prof (I could go with science too, but non-science would be more interesting and unique), get a job, and/or become a writing recluse in preparation of Scholastic 2011.</p>
<p>i’m applying to the brown summer program but my attendance will depend on whether or not i receive enough financial aid. and since i’m applying so close to the due date, my chances of getting a scholarship are significantly lower. however, if i go, i would really like to attend one of their philosophy or anthropology programs. i’m wary about politics at brown. i also didn’t see anything about linguistics. :/</p>
<p>Yeah, the college away things sound lovely, but so expensive. I’m banking on the writing workshops, and if that fails, I’m with dunbar. I’ll become a writing a recluse, maybe try to work on a novel or something. Probably also take community college courses to boost the GPA.</p>
<p>Rejected TASPlicant here. I’ll be spending my summer making up sophomore P.E. (have to take 2-3 classes due to budget cuts) in order to graduate, and /possibly/ an internship with a Senator (crossing my fingers). Also, maybe hospital volunteering/library volunteering. I’ll also have the time to read all the books I haven’t had a chance to read, and to start on my UC college essays and apply for scholarships. Oh, and studying for subject tests if I don’t do well this year. No other summer programs.</p>
<p>Definitely will keep myself busy haha. A TASP-reject conference seems like it would be fun. Maybe regional meetups and then webcam to other regional meetups? Dunno XD
I think that it would be really great to also have a TASP conference for both the accepted and rejected after TASP 2010. Maybe it’s just me though?</p>
<p>Anyhow, I’m really happy for those who made the first cut.</p>
<p>My younger son really, really gained a lot from the Oxbridge program. He loved his two classes. One of his 11 classmates in his major course lives upstairs from him in his dorm at Columbia, and his roommate is at Princeton. One of his professors is a good friend of his who lives in England. He didn’t apply to TASP because he wanted to go overseas.</p>
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<p>I would wait a few months after the program if you do this. Even so you have to consider that among this conference of people who generally don’t know eachother there will be quite a few people who are extremely close, which would throw off the social dynamics quite a bit.</p>
<p>Yep, that’s what I suggested. But yeah that’s also an issue. Haha, oh wellz, I doubt it would happen.</p>
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<p>ah well. i wouldn’t attend cornell because of only a possibility of being accepted into the telluride house. so, i guess that’s unlikely for me. even so, if i can afford it someday (when i’m a rich corporate shark, hah,) i think i’d like to donate to the telluride association. i’m still fascinated by and appreciative of what they do. and even though i didn’t get in, i’m still comforted knowing that those types of people do exist somewhere. that knowledge will keep me happy. one of my favorite quotes from ayn rand: “show me your achievement–and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.”</p>
<p>so, should we make an official list of our alternative programs or what? (:
i just finished up my brown app today, started working on the ivy scholars one and am looking at that carleton writing thing and possible internships in d.c. but yeah…i’m not applying for the clark scholars program.</p>
<p>and i felt much better this morning after i walked into my apeuro class (the teacher and i are pretty close) and she was blasting “simple man” by lynyrd skynyrd for me. hah.</p>
<p>I don’t know… I can’t afford those ivy schools things. I need something that is free/almost free for internationals. I should probably stop limiting in humanity. Anything. Anything would be good. Or maybe I just stay at home and study MIT open course. It’s so useful for someone like me who cannot afford cool summer camps.</p>
<p>I will not look at the TASP thread anymore because I always feel depressed and distracted afterwards. It has already been two days and life has to move on. Take a shower and everything starts fresh.</p>
<p>sunnyshine <em>hugs</em> try not to think about it too much. i know that i probably won’t let it go until i get my rejection letter in the mail. this is the first time that i’ve ever…failed at anything, so it’s tough. the initial disappointment was gut-wrenching but it’s getting better. my ego totally got slammed. 
hopefully, we’ll keep each other updated on admissions, testing, etc. maybe some of us might even end up at the same college. </p>
<p>just know that not being accepted isn’t necessarily indicative of your actual talent. there were a lot of factors working against us this year like having the umich tasp cut. i’d say that even being sincerely interested in tasp (that is, not for college padding but for the intellectual experience) is really impressive. </p>
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the politics and ideology one seems okay.</p>
<p>oh and sunnyshine, are you planning on applying to college in the u.s.?</p>
<p>yeah, going forward I’d definitely like to have you all as a group to discuss colleges with; I suspect we’ll all have a number of prospective schools in common.</p>
<p>as for the TASP application, definitely nobody should fret it – they’re interviewing 10% of what’s already an extremely self-selected group, and who knows what the differences between applicants were. Anyway, a lot of people have been saying stuff along the lines of “writing the essays was a really great experience,” etc. I don’t know about others, but for me, while I did enjoy writing my essays, the best thing I got out of applying was the fact that, while talking with other applicants on the forums, I found that there were people like me out there: genuine, intellectual, curious, kind people. This simple discovery is really reassuring to me as I wade through the slog of high school, and will definitely help me cope with languishing in high school for one more year.</p>