<p>Can some one explain what the program is about? Is it a research program?
Can some one post a link to the website?</p>
<p>I couldn't figure out much from the thread.</p>
<p>How long our the essays suppose to be? It says clear and concise, but it also seems like from the thread that they should be full blown essays.</p>
<p>wait just kidding, it says each should be two pages on there</p>
<p>No it says no longer than 2 pages.</p>
<p>That being said, I know people who had essays longer than this and much shorter. Just make sure you get your point across (concise is the key word there), and good luck.</p>
<p>This summer our professor told us that for her class she gives her students the option of writing a Haiku for all her essays. Write a haiku maybe???</p>
<p>^For TASS you mean? There's no topic appropriate for writing a haiku..</p>
<p>I thought I was going to be the one to tell everyone the app is up...except I'm late by like 20 posts :)</p>
<p>time to crack down!</p>
<p>oh, and another question- do you get notified even if you didn't get an interview? I hate it when people leave you hanging :)</p>
<p>I hope so (but that's certainly not an answer to your question).</p>
<p>And the Tasplication process begins! I've filled out everything but the essays, which essentially means I haven't started my application yet. So yeah--time to write!</p>
<p>yes, telluride will send out emails (and letters) in april and notify you about interviews. i think the emails for people who didn't get interviews were sent at the same time, but i might be wrong. </p>
<p>and hey, if you can do a two page essay in one page and get your point across, then power to you. i also wouldn't abuse the two-page-limit telluride gives you. even though they're pretty lenient, they have 1000+ application essays x5 (+booklist) = 5000+ essays to read. </p>
<p>the seminar topic is probably the least important (in my opinion) aspect of TASP in retrospect. well, i'll refrain from commenting on my particular seminar, but when it comes down to it, i learned so much in those 6 weeks from my fellow TASPers and outside of the classroom that the seminar felt more like a springboard for discussions, a catalyst for conversations and intellectual thought rather than the cornerstone of our TASP experience. no matter what your seminar topic is, you will have an awesome time if you are willing, like tako said. </p>
<p>i had originally ranked michigan as my first choice alongside with cornell II, and later i mentioned in my interview that cornell II was my first choice because "i was more practiced with race discussions and want to try something new." one of my factotum chose an art/lit seminar and was put into a social theory seminar instead, and she said telluride really knew what they were doing because she would've picked the wrong seminar for herself.</p>
<p>so basically, it sounds contradictory, but telluride will put you into the right seminar, and whatever seminar you go to, you will have fun.</p>
<p>The point about the haiku was that there is no definite length or style.</p>
<p>Could you imagine writing a 10 page term paper in 3 lines of haiku, pretty impressive. (She said no one has done it)</p>
<p>^^ Adding that to the "it would make my life complete if this thread were taken as gospel" files. :)</p>
<p>i love tasplicants
other neurotic '09s
hope to meet this june</p>
<p>^^ cc posts in haiku. yummy.</p>
<p>On the first page of the app, it says "Recent Honor or Awards". Does that include E.C.'s also, or just academic craps? </p>
<p>I'm actually like the app process a lot... hope it's the same for everyone. Good luck to 09ers!</p>
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yes, i second that motion- if they only take maybe 30 kids per session, won't it be just a carbon copy of the high school experience, but with an expanded vocabulary and alot of philosophical discourse?
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<p>No. Not. Even. Close. You take 18 bright, quirky, cute kids and 2 bright, quirky, cute factota and stick them together in a house for 6 weeks. They have never met each other in their lives. Without TASP, they would probably never meet. They are all totally different from each other - at my TASP, at least, I don't think any of us would have hung out in the same "clique," if you know what I mean. And because of that, it's an absolutely amazing academic and social experience.</p>
<p>I came into TASP with the high school mindset. The first day, I looked around and "tagged" people who I probably wouldn't be friends with. Not because I didn't like them, simply because they were so far off from what I was used to. I was used to high school, where people tend to be exclusive and petty and cliquey and everybody stays in their own little safety bubbles. In the first few days of TASP, I made an effort to pierce other bubbles, but I didn't really believe it would work.</p>
<p>But it worked. One of those people who I figured I'd never be friends with, well, I became bestest buddies with him in the matter of weeks. Others who I had made similar silly and naive predictions about I also grew very close to. It's nothing like the high school experience because you will be forced to branch out of your comfort zone, and in the end, you will love it. I now have 19 new best friends, all of whom I'd be willing and able to talk about anything to.</p>
<p>Yes, there are a few kids with an expanded vocabulary, and there will be a lot of philosophical discourse. But not everybody will be vocabulary champion of the world - I certainly was not, as you can probably tell from my posts. But it's GREAT! The fact that everybody is so different means that you can discuss stuff. If everybody thought the same (something which I tend to encounter in my high school every day...makes me want to cry) what a boring conversation you would have!</p>
<p>Seriously. To list some of our topics: Corporeal punishment, legalizing crack and prostitution, relativism versus ethnocentrism, standardized testing, illegal immigration, offering incentives for volunteerism, categorization versus individualism, racial profiling, social Darwinism, our miserable education system, religion, freedom of belief, the meaning of life. I could go on for hours. TASP is not high school. People actually want to talk :)</p>
<p>The magic of TASP is forcing all these people to live together, who would normally never meet otherwise. That way one day they can take over the world. Just kidding. Maybe. But anyway, they all have hugely varying perspectives - they are from all around the nation and the world, after all. There are lots of disagreements, and it's good. Those are the times when you ultimately learn, after all. It also makes you fall madly in love with them.</p>
<p>Because of TASP, I am a different person. As one of our factota would say, "it changed my life." I now look at the world and have to think about it. I am inspired to try and change things. Oh trust me, it's annoying/frustrating all the time when I question WHY do I CARE SO MUCH?? WHY does this bug me? WHY do I feel responsible for the world?!?! Knowledge may be power, but ignorance is bliss, after all. But trust me, knowledge is good. TASP is good. Thinking about my fellow TASPers reassures me that the world will be okay. </p>
<p>Does that sound like a "carbon copy of the high school experience"? :)</p>
<p>You probably don't believe me or think I'm grossly exaggerating. I don't blame you; I certainly thought the same thing many times when previous TASPers told us about their experience. But no worries, if you guys get accepted into TASP you will see :) I certainly did.</p>
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and hey, who actually wants to go to this thing because it sounds interesting, and not just for college apps?
and to past taspers-did they do a good job of screening those guys out?
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<p>I think Telluride does a relatively good job of screening those people out. The interviews pretty much sum it up - it's rather difficult to fake passion when you're being harshly interrogated by a panel of people and forced to actually think about things you've written. And even if they do manage to get in, well, they must be interesting enough to have made it to TASP in the first place. Then they see the light, after they meet the people :)</p>
<p><3 Tako
10 char</p>
<p>Tako, that was an amazing post. I really, really hope I get in!</p>
<p>TASP now sounds like the Real World infused with writing and philsophical discussions.</p>
<p>No, TASP is absolutely nothing like that.</p>
<p>I will role with that princess, BUT, there is a certain inherent trashiness level when it comes to the realworld that does not exist at all at TASP.</p>
<p>Haha, psat scores came out for me today. No comment.</p>
<p>Yeah I was disappointed by mine also. w/e I didn't study for PSATs but I studied for the SAT I took in December =]</p>