TASP and boarding school kids

<p>Has anyone from a boarding school gone to TASP? I'm wondering if they take these children because they may be perceived to already have a college like experience.</p>

<p>I don't think Telluride is concerned about giving people a "college" like experience but to answer your questions as TASP isn't really like college as I doubt college will be amazing as TASP was. I 'm pretty sure they do not discriminate against for or against boardign school kids. TASP is almost completely based on merit.</p>

<p>There was a girl from Exeter at one of the 05 TASPs. Besides that, I haven't heard much about boarding school kids at TASP (I don't know if there were any at all this year). My sense is that, like in elite college admissions, they make up a sector of the population that's highly overrepresented- wealthy, suburban, east-coasters. I also heard from someone who sits on the TASP selection committee that a big portion of boarding school applicants write about the same general topics in their essays. weird.</p>

<p>dw about it.</p>

<p>TASP is about community living.. not just "college living".</p>

<p>Hear, hear. Your background doesn't play a central role in the admissions process: YOU as a WHOLE is what matters. You, your opinions, your beliefs, the causes you stand for, what you love, what you would die for, what you hate, how you look at life and everything in between... THAT is what's important. How your background AFFECTED you, how you interact with your environment... stuff like that. :D</p>