<p>Oh okay, well I just wanted to let you know =].
Basically at UMich our scheduele was as follows:
8:30 a.m.- Seminar at the university (We would walk there together as a group)
12:30 a.m.- Lunch in the Telluride house
Free Time!- Groups of three can venture out into the campus as long as you tell someone where your going. There are a LOT of cool rooms in the house that you are welcome to hang out in, including your own room.<br>
6:30 p.m.- Dinner. Your also allowed to go out after dinner.
Curfews for weekdays and weekends will be discussed and created by your tutors and you. Its usually around 12:00 pm on weekdays and 1:00/1:30 am on weekends. </p>
<p>Yes, you are allowed to workout in the UMich facilities and you will be able to run with groups of TASSers. Tutors will help you coordinate this.
Its no problem that your a vegetarian. The chef cooks food to meet the dietary needs of each TASSer. My TASS had vegetarians and Vegans. The vegetarian food is yummy btw! =]
For our TASS the guy to girl ratio wasn’t even at all lol, we had 3 boys to 15 girls. But this was only because a lot of boys opted out of the program or were sick. However there is supposed to be an even ratio. Guys and girls live on different floors. </p>
<p>I hope I answered all of your questions. If you have any more feel free to ask me. [=</p>
<p>ahhhh! thanks for all the info!
Question, so were not allowed to leave campus at all?
Also how does like rooming work? Are you by yourself? Are you with a room mate?
Is there dress code for seminar?
what do you like…bring
hahaha omg i could go on for days</p>
<p>lol, at all your questions. I’m sure you don’t want all the information and experiences before you get there =P</p>
<p>You will be staying in the Telluride house at UMich which is about I’d say 6 blocks from the main campus. You are allowed to leave campus as long as you inform your tutors of where your going and if you travel in groups. Roomates are selected for you by your tutors based on rooming survey sheets that they will send you in the mail if you are admitted. So no your not by yourself, you’ll be roomed with someone of the same sex on a floor with all of the girls in the program who will also be paired. There is no dresscode, but of course you can not dress inappropriately ( short shorts, exposing tops). They will send you a list of everything you need to bring if you are admitted. </p>
<p>Btw, how are you able to keep posting so quickly lol, don’t you have school?!?! Or is it that you are in a different time zone than me?</p>
<p>hahaha i guess a different time zone, its like 6:30 where I am hahaha
and actuaaaalyyy i do want all the information ahahahha because then if i dont get in ill be able to sulk about what i couldhave/wouldhave been doing
6 blocks! yay casual jog
okay slash would it be possible to do something like work or volunteer after daily seminars?
I’d really like to get involved while I’m there/if im there</p>
<p>@elle822 OMG this summer i really wanted to try being vegetarian and try working out a little bit more (as of right now im probably the laziest person ever lol) if we get in you could be my motivational coach haha
the more i hear about this program the more i wanna go…i like the sound of all this freedom 
Thanks asia for answering our questions!</p>
<p>hahah yeah!! if i dont get in…your on your own LOL
im pretty lazy toooo!</p>
<p>im just gonna pray we get accepted 
this next month is gonna be one of the longest months of my life! i can’t wait to find out their decision.
and I have one more question asia! just curious, were there any non-African Americans at your TASS??</p>
<p>lol wait when do we find out again?
slash yah so am i because I like meeting black people so that we can talk about hair ahahaha
slash just being curious about u now, what classes do you take?</p>
<p>lol, you guys are funny!
There were non-African Americans at my TASS, however the majortiy were African American. There was an one Asian, one Indian guy and a few hispanic girls. I think you find out whether or not you get in close to the end of April. </p>
<p>I am actually a dual enrollemtn student at my school’s partner college studying for my associates degree so I am doing college classes as well as AP classes.
My classes are:</p>
<p>AP Environmental Science
AP English literature (self study)
AP English language
AP Chinese
Calculus 3 (college)
Into to world literature (college)
In addition I do a LOT of extra curriculars and leadership positions.</p>
<p>maybe i’ll be one of the few hispanic girls in the program this year hehe
i’m also studying for my associates degree, but my school doesn’t offer AP classes so im taking honors level classes</p>
<p>Also, would i be able to attend religious services or something like that?
Slash how do like phones/computers/ipods work.; can we take them or no?</p>
<p>Its good to hear that your applying yourself in high school. I hope your also participating in activities that interest you in and outside of school.
To answer your question, yes you are allowed to participate in religious services. There are numerous churches around the campus that vary in religious practices.
I answered the question about electronics before but I’ll gladly do so again. Yes, you are able and allowed to bring your electronics but they are your responsibility.</p>
<p>@elle822
where are you from?
my interview is today and i am getting pretty nervous right now</p>
<p>how did your interview go mkondapi??</p>
<p>Heh it’s awesome to see a Umich TASSer whose experience seems to replicate my own at Indiana. I thought our group was unbalanced at 7 guys and 11 girls…guess I can’t talk anymore. </p>
<p>I know it’s hella late and interviews are probably all finished, but asia encapsulated what it meant to be part of tass really well. About race: 9 identified as black, 5 hispanic, 1 pacific islander, 1 biracial, 2 asian. But don’t worry about it. Because of TASS’s subject matter, there are obviously more blacks, but it’s irrelevant to placement. My “African-American issue” essay basically expounded my ignorance of black culture/issues/history/etc, since I live in a pretty homogenous Asian community. Glad to see other people interested!</p>
<p>Another TASSer of 2011 helping out! Woot!
I’m still sad that we didn’t get to video chat with you guys, would’ve been great to see what we were missing and vice versa =D.</p>
<p>There’s so many people who talk about how TASS changed their lives it can almost get wearing xD. And yeah too bad we couldn’t have shared that experience of cramming friendship into six weeks. You can take a look at our happy faces in the brochure, since we had one girl who went crazy with her DSLR. Definitely a nice respite from junior year, which seems to be sucking the souls out of my peers. Only complaint was that there was no air conditioning, which I struggled to acclimatize to.</p>
<p>Hahaha, our lights and our air conditioning went out multiple times during the six weeks. It was torturous on those days. We were actually jealous that you guys got to represent your TASS experience on the brochures, we didn’t get any photo-ops =/. Although, you guys did personify the TASS experience pretty well. On the junior year note, I’m definitely with your peers; junior year is driving me mad. I can not wait until senior year, when at least some if not all of the academic stress waivers.</p>
<p>woah just now seeing all of these!!
random q, would it be possible for me to like go out to town and do stuff?
idk like work/ volunteer, get hair or nails done, eat, hahaha stuff like that
what do u do on the fourth of july??</p>
<p>A ton of our free time was spent in town (buying ice cream, eating out, shopping around at the mall), so that’s definitely feasible. For Independence Day, we watched the town parade, bought some sparklers, and then just fooled around with those in the parking lot next to our dorms (cleaning up after of course.). We were going to watch the fireworks, but transportation got in the way. </p>
<p>We had a rule that we had to travel in groups of three, but that wasn’t an impediment since we usually went in even larger packs. I didn’t have this problem, but some people in our seminar had trouble finding barbers who knew how to cut black hair, so we did it ourselves (to varying degrees of success). </p>
<p>Work and volunteering: unfortunately since your schedules are pretty packed, it’s pretty hard to do it regularly. We volunteered at a theater (to usher), daycare, conference, and other places, but only about once for each. And I think the $500 stipend TASS offers for a replaced summer job is the best deal you can get. But it’s still worth it of course.</p>