<p>Does anyone remember the essay prompts for TASP? Also, what is the group interview like? I'm really interested in applying for TASP.</p>
<p>I’m doing a cheap copy and paste job here. Last year’s essay prompts were basically like this.</p>
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<li>Write a critical analysis of a book, poem, play, essay, or other text you have read outside of school. It will be important for you to formulate an argument about the text and support it. Your analysis should not be a plot summary or an analysis of literary devices, although you should feel free to discuss plot and literary devices as they relate to your broader argument.</li>
<li>Discuss a specific problem or topic in a field that interests you. You may address political, philosophical, social, literary, aesthetic, or other questions. Your essay should represent your own views and thoughts; it should not be a research paper.</li>
<li>TASPs are small, educational communities that rely greatly on individual members’ maturity. Write an essay discussing a conflict you have faced and attempted to resolve that led you to new insights about yourself and/or other people.</li>
<li>Describe your hopes and plans for your future education and career. What experiences motivated or influenced these hopes
and plans? If you feel indecisive about your goals, explain the reasons for your indecision.</li>
<li>Discuss the topics of the seminars, in the order of your preference for attending each, addressing the following: What attracts you to this seminar? What would you like to gain from this seminar topic? What concerns would you have if placed into this seminar? Please indicate if there is any seminar you would definitely not want to attend, and explain why. Please be succinct. We do not expect a formal essay. Your answers to this question will help us to place you in an appropriate seminar if you are selected.</li>
<li>List the titles and authors (where applicable) of some of the books you have read in the past year that you consider most significant, for whatever reason, along with any periodicals you read regularly. Indicate with an asterisk which books you read for school. This should not be a list of every book you have read in the past year.</li>
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<p>The prompts are the same every year.</p>