<p>Yeah so as of today I'm officially a TASP-reject. I'm surprisingly okay with it..somehow. Anyways, were any of you Yale-acceptees or current students rejected from TASP? (if you are mentioning how far you made it, ex. to the interview stage, or not even there, would be helpful)</p>
<p>PS As a disclaimer, I know that TASP doesn't define your chances in college admission. I'm just curious... plus, hearing of tasp-rejects at Yale would be motivating, anyways.</p>
<p>I hadn't even heard of TASP until after I had been accepted to Yale... don't worry, just make sure the rest of your junior year is amazing and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Less than 100 people do TASP but over 1000 people get into each of the ivies.</p>
<p>Not a TASP-reject, but I feel like saying that you can do something completely amazing with your summer without TASP. Walk across England. Take up Farsi lessons. Get a job at a children's museum. Write a novel. The summer before your senior year shouldn't be about doing things that will get you into college; it's basically your last summer as a high school student. Do something amazing, and fun, and in twenty years when you are a Farsi-speaking bestselling author of a memoir about walking across England (and Ivy graduate), you will not remember that you didn't get into TASP.</p>
<p>Wooo, I was a semi-finalist for TASP Summer 2008 (ie big scary interview with two people at Goldman Sachs in NYC), and was then rejected, which is really annoying, since 50% of all semi-finalists make it.</p>
<p>I hope I get into Yale.... but yeah. Sorry this didn't help =P. I just wanted to comment on being a TASP reject</p>
<p>My D was also a TASP semi-finalist who didn't make the final cut. Two years ago she was accepted EA to Y.</p>
<p>haha i was a semi-finalist too! they told me i was on the tasp waiting list which consisted of 10 people... but in the end i didn't get in.
as for yale, i got deferred and now i'm just waiting for april 1st.
but seriously, even though i didn't go to tasp my summer after junior year was the BEST ever. go follow a dream. indulge in a passion. try something new. make the most of it. <3</p>
<p>Are you a guy or a girl?</p>
<p>Haha, I'm a TASP-reject that was accepted at Yale EA. Not even a semi-finalist...my Yale essays were much better than my TASP essays, though. </p>
<p>Anyway, there's hope.</p>
<p>they are a lot tasp rejects lol. i know more tasp rejects than tasp-ers.</p>
<p>I got an interview and bombed that, so that was the end of my TASP dreams. XD I think everyone who passes the essay stage is actually referred to as a finalist btw unless my memory is horrible... so that sounds a little bit better than semi-finalist I guess? </p>
<p>It's okay, though. Like illuminar said, just make good use of your summer. Get a summer job and do a lot of volunteer work. That was my backup plan and it was fairly rewarding. I got deferred EA so that probably doesn't make you feel much better, but like everyone else in this thread has said I'm fairly certain the lack of this one very selective thing isn't going to hurt you, especially if you find other stuff to do.</p>
<p>@ illuminar: i'm a girl haha guys usually don't post with <3's... at least not that i know of :)</p>
<p>My D was a TASP reject, got into Yale early, graduated covered with academic honors, and is now doing great in a very competitive law school. Her freshman year roommate, also a TASP reject, ended up a Rhodes Scholar. </p>
<p>So, not to worry.</p>
<p>TASP Reject and Yale EA Admit here. </p>
<p>I think the key is to make the most of your summer, even if you get rejected from TASP. Find a solid back-up plan. I think what I did ended up being more rewarding, both personally and in the admissions process, than doing TASP.</p>
<p>I was rejected from TASP last year and ended up going to Italy on a violin tour, New York for an engineering class, and a majorly awesome social activism camp that changed my life.</p>
<p>Like everyone before me has said, do something with your summer. Getting rejected from TASP may be the best thing that's ever happened to you. ;)</p>
<p>I did get into TASP last year, and was rejected from Yale EA. Being a TASPer has little indication of whether you’ll get into the school of your dreams. It’s a self-selective process; if you applied to TASP, generally you’re the kind of student that would get into an Ivy-League school. Good luck. You’ll do fine.</p>
<p>yup i wasnt even a semifinalist. and i made it in EA. so there is always hope!!</p>
<p>As awkward as this thread is, I was rejected from Tasp. not even semi-finalist.
Got into yale EA.
Learn from your experiences, and move on. :)</p>
<p>
Ditto. Bumping this up because 2010 interview notifications are coming out.</p>
<p>The sad part is, I didn’t apply to TASP just because it is good for the resume.</p>
<p>When the results came out last year and my daughter saw that she didn’t get an interview,
one of the first things she said was, “I’ll never get into Yale!.” She then proceeded to find a job and two summer programs related to her main interest, one of which was a competitive national program. And fast forward a year, she already has acceptances from her two extremely competitive EA schools as well a likely letter from Harvard. She still hopes to have Yale as a choice, too, but she knows now that if she doesn’t, it will not be because of TASP!!!</p>