<p>What is a TASP-er?</p>
<p>TASP is a free (?) humanities-oriented summer program offered to rising seniors. It's very selective, including many essays and a few rounds of interviews. I personally did not apply, but know people who did, and the people who were ultimately accepted are basically... amazing. :)</p>
<p>InnocentIII was in the same suite as me the entire program. So many all-nighters and candid discussions...</p>
<p>But actually, I was looking at the regional adcoms the other day. Many of them are female, younger, or minorities. Not really the old balding white guy that defines "ivory tower".</p>
<p>They are reviewing us as we speak/type/spaz/breathe</p>
<p>It's possible that they are evaluating YOUR application (or mine) at this very moment...
Who knows, I may already be rejected and won't be the wiser until December 15th!</p>
<p>^ i dont even want to think about that.
ahhhh.</p>
<p>^ I know! Me neither! ^
And considering that over 1% of the SCEA applicant pool are CC members (see "official thread"), there is a reasonable chance that at any given moment they could be evaluating one of our apps. @_@</p>
<p>less than 2 weeks! :)
1 week, 6 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes!</p>
<p>There are no automatic admits. You really see the cream of the crop here on CC, and nobody is so well-qualified that they're automatic. 5500 applicants this year, and what seems to be about a 14% admit, 60% defer, 26% reject breakdown. Apps with a couple reads that do not hold probably do not make it to committee, but that still leaves somewhere between 4500-5000. 5000 apps in 14 days (we'll throw out 14-hour workdays for the hell of it) translates to about 25.5 apps per hour, or one every 2.35 minutes. That seems like an awful lot. I would guess that much fewer go to committee than that.</p>
<p>Thanks for the breakdown, milessmiles. I didn't know there were 5500 applicants. 14% admit rate makes me want to hurl...</p>
<p>14%?! (Wow, it looks like I just swore...)
But holy hell that's a disturbingly low number. Not entirely unexpected, but still...</p>
<p>I didn't know the EA rejection rate was so high...I swore it was under 20% last year...</p>
<p>I read that Yale SCEA's acceptance rate was 18% last year, while Yale RD was 5.6%. I personally think we're lucky that we applied SCEA!</p>
<p>Then again, much of SCEA is the cream of the crop. So is RD, but is SCEA perhaps even more so?</p>
<p>So? I don't understand that argument. The acceptance rate is higher. If it's an issue of spots, as they always say it is, and you are a qualified applicant, then it's just an issue of when you've got the best chance to secure a spot, is it not? So if you have 3 TIMES AS GOOD A CHANCE IN EA (which you do), it doesn't matter that everyone else is better, too. There are more spots.</p>
<p>And there absolutely are auto-admits. If you go to the right high schools in the New Haven area, you'd know this. There aren't tons, but recruited athletes, professor's kids, KIDS OF THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OR THE HEAD OF ADMISSIONS, etc. And it's not like those kids are slackers, either. They'd be competitive without the convenient fact that, say, their parent is the master of one of the residential colleges. I'm not hating on them, I'm just saying, Yale would much rather pay themselves for its employees' kids' education than pay some other school for it.</p>
<p>sounds like someone goes to hopkins.</p>