<p>hey i just started on my critical analysis and i was thinking: is drawing a parallel between two books (the theme of two books) critical analysis? also is relating the book to an outside event also critical analysis? i'm kind of skeptical on this.</p>
<p>Critical Analysis, AS long as your Analyzing and being critical of the peice, you got yourself a Critical Analysis.</p>
<p>Haha :-P</p>
<p>Ok so the first question is more debateable, some guy asked this a while back and it was sort of 50/50 I think someone suggested you called into the office but I bet thats over kill. Just go with it if you have a book you want to draw parallels that would be great, i didnt draw parallels to a different book but I did to myself and the essay turned out very power full (well i hope XD) As for the later, YES YES YES draw to outside events It will strengthen your essay 10x because when you have a concrete foundation you cant go anywhere, lame analogy, basically by having something fact based actual event you have a good footing with your essay, now if that is a somewhat argumentable topic that is even better, and if yyour arguments on the book and the event are the same you got your self one fine critical analysis. :-D <em>yay</em></p>
<p>So go for it, may I ask what book your doing?</p>
<p>should i even try applying to tasp? it'll be hard to write the six essays while attempting to study for miterms at the same time. and i've also heard that it's really really difficult to get in. i'm a junior, 4.0, pretty good psat scores, though i've heard that essays are the major thing that they look at. please let me know if i should bother applying!</p>
<p>Well yea pretty much your 4.0, although commendable, wont get you very far.</p>
<p>If you want to apply, by all means apply. Key words are "WANT TO" If your in it for the resume or W/e your wasting your time, because the passion that everyone here has put into their essays is because we really want to go. I mean really really.
And passion is key.</p>
<p>Im not trying to be a deterent, i'm just telling you what your getting yourself into, I dont want you to waste your time.</p>
<p>I kind of wondered that too. i'm sure we all have lots of work, and we all statistically have a small chance of getting in, but it sounds pretty amazing so I figured I'd do the best I could...nothing to lose really, except some sleep.</p>
<p>Aida, I cannot for the life of me figure out who GS and SM are. I keep thinking "Goldman Sachs"-- AHH what has Wharton done to meee?!</p>
<p>And yeah, I was extremely depressed and emotionally weak after TASP. Luckily, I didn't have to go home right away. My dad and I swept the East Coast for college tours, and I fell in love with a certain university.. <em>blushes</em>.</p>
<p>Anyway.</p>
<p>Giantredlobster, did you go to TASS? TASS'ers have a really good chance of getting into TASP.</p>
<p>Oh wait! I figured out SM! WOOHOO.</p>
<p>Oh wait.. I know GS, too! Oh man, I hope these people don't get offended. My mind just doesn't process that rapidly.</p>
<p>Im applying to TASS</p>
<p>OH and congrats on Wharton, XD. Ah lucky lucky, there is this kid im friends with and he was accepted into wharton, but then this summer he had a bad bike accident and was medivacd' (sp?) out of where he was, really sad. Point is he deferred for a year and will be in your class.</p>
<p>out of curiosity, besides for the age difference, what is the difference between TASS and TASP?</p>
<p>TASS is the same concept just all the topics pretain to African American culture and history. </p>
<p>SO for example one of the topics this year is Modern Sports and the African American experience <-- this one is the most obvious of the others</p>
<p>One that is more subtle (wrong word) is Fighting Epidemics Using the Right Tools, So its talking about diseases and medical outbreaks around the world, but focuses on how minorities are often the ones effected with these diseases</p>
<p>Note that ^^^^ is probably the most generic and basic description of the seminars.</p>
<p>Also TASS is just cool because Im the only one on here applying, call me an individual! :-)</p>
<p>haha it's just because most sophomores haven't discovered CC yet.</p>
<p>Thanks Lauren, way to burst my bubble.</p>
<p>Whoa! hold on! On the paper application I got in the mail, it didn't say anything about mailing recom. letters and transcripts in early. It just gave one date, Jan.22. The TASP website also just said Jan. 22 for paper applications and jan. 26 for online ones. So why is the cornell site different from everywhere else?</p>
<p>only mail in the recs early if you're doing the app online. </p>
<p>i've been gone for the entire day (since 5am, ugh) so i really need to take a shower and go to sleep. no essays tonight. sigh.</p>
<p>Lover, if your applying online you must send in your transcript and rec. letter by the 15th. It says on the online application sheet.</p>
<p>If your doing paper app, everything is due on the 22nd.</p>
<p>Wait, how do you know my name again? haha</p>
<p>Lol wow that is really sketch. Sorry about that.</p>
<p>It was from the PM where I asked you about TM (someones initials who was in your french class last year, and now goes to De Anza for her senior year)</p>
<p>And I was thinking about you today because I saw her and when I was writing this i was like shoot I forgot to ask her about Lauren </p>
<p>XD. My name is corey you can write my name in a month and i will be sketched out</p>
<p>lol, i thought you were a guy, thecomisar. </p>
<p>i can't tell by all these androgynous usernames. but i guess mine is kind of gender-queer too, so...</p>
<p>Ohh, ok lobster, don't worry about it. Now I remember telling you. School + TASP is making me lose it a little bit! :)</p>
<p>Yes I'm a girl... haha. But I guess it might be hard to tell if you'd heard of the song Der Kommissar, which is about a guy. XD. Are you a girl?</p>