<p>I took their directions to heart, so I included every book I read. True I did find my way through Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and Kip Thorne's "Black Holes and Time Warps," but I also included the first five Harry Potter books.
Be honest, you might as well.</p>
<p>hey_la: do you have a link to that page? I never saw it.</p>
<p>Eh, I don't do much reading outside of class. I'm thinking of leaving that question blank and calling literature the failure of civilization.</p>
<p>yeah be honest. i had to edit my list down just because it was way too long, but i made sure it was a pretty accurate representation of my reading habits</p>
<p>white noise is a great book, and youll (hopefully) have finished it by the time you may/may not get an interview.</p>
<p>theoneo, if you really believe that, you may as well save yourself an application, because unless you have a couple of volumes to back that up, that is a fairly obvious course to an instant rejection.</p>
<p>This is just a general question to previous TASPers. Understand this comes from someone who already went to TASP, so I of course understand that the purpose of the program isn't for college admission. At the same time, it never hurts to think about it...</p>
<p>How much do you think TASP and being admitted to the Telluride Houses at either Cornell or Michigan influence your liklihood of being admitted to those schools (or other elite schools)? I remember being told only one person in 90+ years has been admitted to CBTA and not Cornell, but I think that may be a little unrealistic. </p>
<p>Anyway, I would love to know what you fellow taspers think!</p>
<p>^ I love that poem. </p>
<p>Past TASPers-- care to share your AIM screennames? =)</p>
<p>If you run a search in this specific forum for TASP, the thread should come up. </p>
<p>I'm definitely liking White Noise so far. I've read a fair amount of Sartre and Nietzsche; will I totally hate Kant given that I'm a pretty big fan of those two? Gonna have a LOT of free time this vacation so looks like I'll be doing a lot of reading.</p>
<p>PM me and i'll let you have it</p>
<p>If you like Nietzsche (thanks for spelling it right btw) then you'll love Hegel, and find Kant interesting. They're more related than people will admit, but Kant is, in my opinion, a must tougher read.</p>
<p>theoneo: I'm afraid I have to agree with Globber on this one. TASPers certainly ranged from utter book worms to people who barely read during the day at all. However, each and every one of us read as a hobby, for enjoyment, and to learn. (Those, like me, who don't waste valuable day time reading, read at night-a lot).
We like reading and are well read, and frankly if you want to say that, "literature [is] the failure of civilization," then I first want to hear some arguments. You can go for it if you argue yourself well, who knows?
But I can confidently speak for all academics (including math/sci people) that reading, learning, and knowing are all huge.
You won't fit in at TASP at all if you don't value these things.</p>
<p>sorry if that sounded harsh, but you might just be bitter about some AP English class and a bad critical reading score, so you probably needed to hear it.</p>
<p>My sn is mslayton25
Feel free to ask any questions, especially if you can't figure out how PMs work.</p>
<p>RichardCory: (sorry, I guess I missed you) From what we heard, and I'm sure you did as well... we have an overwhelmingly great shot at U Mich and Cornell... even moreso if you went to their specific TASP.
As far as the Telluride house? (this is getting into speculation) I imagine that we'd have a slight advantage because in their minds, we've already experienced Telluride and will be more likely to join after college, and eventually get rich and give donations.
I doubt it's that big of an advantage because of the TASP name alone, but in addition to your being familiar and obviously "taken with" Telluride, whatever was amazing about you to get you into TASP should help as well.
(That last point was based on what admissions officers say about TASP and its relationship to college admissions.)</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange-- do you think that several applicants will choose to analyze this? It's one of my favorite books, but I definitely don't want to write about something that's been over-analyzed by other applicants.</p>
<p>hah, I wrote about exactly that book last year in my best essay ever, probably, for the TASP app, but I don't think it is overdone. In any case, you can probably find a different angle from which to approach it than the funky one I ended up using.</p>
<p>Pick a book that has been meaningful to you in some way (or one that you can write about really well.) It won't matter if it's a "school" book (see "Scarlet Letter" and "The Great Gatsby") because you should be able to bring something new to it if it does mean something to you.</p>
<p>PS: Don't write about the Great Gatsby</p>
<p>Awww, that was a good book. But yes, over-analyzed.</p>
<p>I've heard interesting things about Hegelian (sp?) ethics, but I'll give it a try!</p>
<p>And I def. loved A Clockwork Orange and there really is no way you can run out of angles to take on it. Me, I wanted to write about The Crucible, but I read it for school, so no dice....by the way, what exactly do they mean by "analyze a book you've read"? Can you just write an essay about any aspect of the book pretty much? </p>
<p>Thanks, guys!</p>
<p>Ha about "The Great Gatsby." I'm no TASP-er, but I'd also like to put a moratorium on "Catcher in the Rye" analyses. Great book, but if I hear one more angst filled book report about it, I'll go find JD Salinger myself and smack him.</p>
<p>i LOVE the great gatsby. but i've never liked catcher in the rye, or any salinger. not franny and zooey, not raise high the roof beam carpenters, not 9 stories.</p>
<p>For the record... blurblurblur is a read-aholic who's probably read every book in the universe. So if you haven't read as many books as she has, don't feel bad. :P</p>
<p>I listed about 15-20 books. I included Harry Potter, and just for kicks I put in "Karsh: A 50-year Retrospective" which is a book about the famous Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer Yousef Karsh. He made that one famous portrait of Winston Churchill looking real badass. :P</p>
<p>I put 84903284302432 books!!! Ended up talking about Calvino in the interview for like 20 mins.</p>