<p>Bugger! We even had a strategy going were we studied last year's poses and tried to make ourselves as cute as possible. Did you have a Cornell factotum by chance?</p>
<p>/bitter</p>
<p>actually...we had one umich factotum, and one former tasper who just graduated from swarthmore. both rocked.</p>
<p>Nope, we had one from UMich and one who just got done with Swarthmore who went to TASP a long while back.</p>
<p>AND it's probably worth it to say to those people who see the brochure as prospective TASPers:</p>
<p>None of the Wash U photos were planned in advance, really, besides the group photo on the last page. The other ones were just sort of taken on the spot. There really was a stack of books that tall outside of blurblurblur's room, because she's crazy, and that crazy frog-molesting photo is James trying to dance with it because all the girls were taken. What else... yeah.</p>
<p>TASP really is fun. There's no staged stuff in there. Even the one where there's people lined up in that white room with the weird windows--we seriously decided one day to just go there and chill. And we chilled until Doug started singing his goddamn songs and a law student from downstairs came to yell at us. Then we left. So what you see in the pictures is really what you get. I hope it makes you want to apply, because that's all the better for everybody! HAH. That makes no sense, whatever.</p>
<p>As a final plug for UMich, we got an awesome three-wide milkshake machine that churned out the meanest tasting confectionary concoctions that the world has ever seen. I daresay it will make a comeback next year?</p>
<p>The application doesn't seem as bad as I thought it would be... And did you guys notice how they don't ask us for our tests scores???? Weird... I guess they really do place an enoromous weight on essays as an admissions factor...</p>
<p>cesar you MUST submit PSAT and SAT (optional) scorse with your application; cornellers had particularly high standardized tests I remember talking to taspers with 2260's to 2390's, including my roomate, 'twas insane</p>
<p>That is indeed insane.. Strangely, the application doesn't ask to write our scores. But I am taking the dec sat just in case for a few summer programs including TASP. What would you say is the borderline for what's acceptable- 2260~?</p>
<p>I don't think there is an "acceptable" score, in a sense. Someone said that people had scores in the 180s (PSAT).</p>
<p>Many people scored inordinately high, but there were a select few who barely broke 1000 (on the old one.)
They do place more weight on essays, but don't forget that the 99th percentile scoreres on the PSAT receive applications.</p>
<p>Even so, work on those essays... colleges may only pretend to care about them, but the telluride people genuinely do.</p>
<p>I remember someone saying that you have to defend the points you make your essay in the interview, but I don't recall an essay question asking you to discuss something controversial... Which essays do talk about in the interview - the literature analysis one????</p>
<p>my essays were definitely not that controversial--besides the book list, program choice and educational future one, i wrote about my family, the idea of translation, and analyzed a poem by pablo neruda. however, it turned out a book on my book list was the interviewer's favorite book. we talked about it, the idea of translation, culture shock, violence in the media, and just everything and anything that popped up.</p>
<p>and in terms of sat scores, many people definitely had very very high scores, but there were people who did not as well. selection really has very little to do with test scores.</p>
<p>The question about analyzing a work can spark more controversy than you think. I took a risk with mine and analyzed "Horton Hears a Who" by Dr. Seuss and talked about individualism/oppression, and some moral relativism.
At my interview, we went even more in depth, having to bring in current political topics as well as philosophers/authors. </p>
<p>That's just one example, but you can see how you not only have to be able to defend your point, you must understand your point so that you can apply it to other situations, (and expect to be absolutely drilled on it!)</p>
<p>I'm on the front of the brochure!! (Well, all of Cornell I and II are..)</p>
<p>Bbbbump! Are you all too busy working on your applications, or just sorta dead?</p>
<p>Haha RSI is kicking TASP's ass.</p>
<p>pshaw, is not.</p>
<p>I am just kinda screwed over with work right now. Argh I wish my AP USH teacher would just somehow vanish!!</p>
<p>uggghhhh I feel your pain, except mine is AP Chem related. The holidays need to come already!</p>
<p>I've started the booklist, but that's about it so far. Somehow I'm thinking I should leave out the trashy drugstore novels (I read intelligent books sometimes, I swear :)) and the fact that I read Cosmopolitan...d'you think Jane would be okay to list? What have you all read/do you like reading? I'm reading White Noise right now, but I haven't gotten far enough in to say much about it. Any book recommendations? </p>
<p>I was reading through that giant 20+ page TASP thread from last year...haha, I'm such a geek, too bad I'm never going to get in. But yay TASP!</p>
<p>Edit: P.S. Teehee about the pose studying, globber. Sorry it didn't work!</p>