<p>Welcome to the official thread for TASP 2010!</p>
<p>Hey everyone! I know it's only September, but I'm already excited to start the application process for TASP. Who all is planning on applying? I cannot wait for the seminar topics to be posted. Hooray class of 2011!</p>
<p>This is adorable in it’s earliness.</p>
<p>Best of luck,
TASPers 2009! (got’em)</p>
<p>Oh, thank goodness for this thread. The one posted a few weeks ago with the lack of capitalization and such made me cringe.</p>
<p>I’m planning on applying. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.</p>
<p>when is the application due? I’m probably going to apply to TASP and LEAD Business, and get rejected by both of them!</p>
<p>Applications for TASP usually are due sometime in January. According to Telluride’s website, the actual materials for applying will be released in December. I’m not sure about LEAD Business, though. </p>
<p>Most of us will probably end up being rejected, but we should still apply. Who knows? Maybe an essay reader will amazingly find worthiness in our writing… eep!</p>
<p>Even though the acceptance rate overall for TASP seems to be around 5-10%, for CC posters, it tends to be much higher. I think in 2009, about 25% of the people who posted in the CC TASP thread got in. That makes me hopeful.</p>
<p>Though, we do have the extra competitiveness this year, what with there only being 3 sessions. >.></p>
<p>but some CC people are just insane</p>
<p>Last year’s CC stats:
Applicants 68
Interviewees 35
Accepted 21
Waitlist 2 (at least 1 accepted, included in Accepted stat)
2nd-R Acceptance 60%
Overall Acceptance 31%</p>
<p>I’m definitely applying even though I know my odds of acceptance are quite slim since I’m not a fantastic writer. I know one of the essay questions ask you to discuss an issue that’s really important you. I’m wondering though, how random can it be? The issue I’m thinking about is not strongly related to humanities (though I could construe it that way) and it’s highly random, but it does make me tick, so I’m not too sure.</p>
<p>You should write about it if it makes you tick. That is what makes an issue/topic of choice essay good, it’s the writers interest in the topic not the topic itself. One person wrote about computers in his topic essay at my TASP, another wrote about urban development. I wrote about the afterlife (or rather the benefits of a lack thereof), which is something I had been thinking a lot about at the time. I would say the best strategy would be to write about the first thing you think of when you see the prompt, as long as it’s serious and you can put real thought into it. You really can write about anything.</p>
<p>Yay Telluride!! I did TASS and would recommend a Telluride program to any one! Just applying is a learning experience.</p>
<p>I want to register</p>
<p>You should still apply even if you aren’t a great writer. I think that TASP honestly judges a lot more on the context rather then grammar and flow. You hafta be able to think; and I wasn’t that great of a writer (ask any of my TASPers) and I made it into TASP.</p>
<p>Topic of choice essays are always the best judge of who the person is. Go with what Wombat said to you, write about something you know and are passionate about, and like what Wombat said the topic doesn’t hafta be humanities related. I think that only one of my essays was barely even closely related to humanities.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. Content, analysis, and original thought are more important than writing ability.</p>
<p>If the first essay is still a literary critique, it can be helpful to have the second essay thematically linked. I have seen that done very well/successfully with TASP admissions.</p>
<p>Are less people applying this year??</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
<p>OK guys
I love the enthusiasm.
TA has been cracking down on preTASP communication: it has led to bad group chemistry and part of TASP is learning to chill with and learn with people who are bright who you don’t know. Some of you will say that you just will keep your usernames secret and not tell who is where until after TASP. You’ll figure it out anyways.
Shut this down if you guys have sense. You’ll have enough time to communicate at TASP believe me.
Good luck and have fun with your apps.</p>
<p>yellowbelly, I respectfully disagree. My TASP had the most amount of accepted CCers of any this year, and while it did bring about some problems, I don’t think this thread needs to be shut down. The problem is not the threads, but the one-on-one pre-TASP communication. </p>
<p>I (and a few other TASPers) straddled that line of involvement on the TASP thread for the longest time–posting when the topic was relevant to me, asking questions about the app or interviews, and reporting my acceptance, etc. Though I did figure out who was who at TASP, that part wasn’t a big deal at all. However, you definitely shouldn’t get carried away. Hence…</p>
<p>Some Annoyingly Vague and Blase General Advice For Posting on This Thread:</p>
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<li><p>Chill: we know it’s TASP, it’s amazing, it’s going to change your life if you get in, yadda yadda yadda–but seriously, relax. Trust me on this one. I was surprisingly laid back during the TASPlication process and was accepted, but I applied to another program simultaneously (and freaked out about it in an unhealthy manner) and was rejected. I was definitely more ‘me’ in presenting myself to TA as a result, which is what the application process is all about.</p></li>
<li><p>Limit the posts: there will be times (especially around notification times) when you’ll be contributing to the thread a lot since no one else ‘gets it,’ but other than that, sometimes it’s best to sit back and take it all in if it doesn’t directly pertain to you. Have a specific question or answer to someone else’s question? Go for it and toss your $.02 into the mix. Otherwise, think twice before padding your interweb involvement with superfluous postage.</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t post/share essays: this is the internet, citizens. What you post here is public, and these essays have the potential to be mad personal. Ask your teachers, friends, or mentors to edit your essays, but keep them off of CC. </p></li>
<li><p>Don’t bring it to Facebook: save the friend requesting and Facebook chatting for TASP if you’re accepted–or for the onset of rejection blues if you’re not. It’s simply way too personal, and Facebook makes it extremely easy to talk to people you might be living with too much. Keep it to the CC threads (or PMs, if it has to come to that).</p></li>
<li><p>Play nicely: there was some mad ■■■■■■■■ last year, which got really awkward. If you’re going to post, keep in mind that there is a chance (though admittedly infinitesimal for some) that you’ll be living with someone else on this thread for six weeks next summer. It’s best not to have a sullied reputation at TASP because of some lame and catty CC posts.</p></li>
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<p>Good luck, kiddies. Hit up a CC UTer with questions if you’ve got 'em. (Mah apologies, but come on, I had to rep THEEE best TASP in the history of L.L. Nunnship, yaddimean?) Heartsiez.</p>
<p>People need a place to vent about how they don’t think they’ll finish the app. or think that they wont be accepted. This is what these posts are about. I remember when I had no one to talk to about TASP and came on the site to see what people going through the same things I was going through posted.</p>
<p>The TASP section is important, and can provide emotional support as well as information.</p>
<p>embeezy (<3!) said exactly what I would have said, and more, regarding this thread’s involvement. I would emphasize restraint on Facebook (with real names and pictures) and for love of whatever god or gods are out there, DON’T POST YOUR ESSAYS.</p>
<p>The sole “problem” at my TASP (rather minor, really, nothing like the schisms I’ve heard about) was related to pre-TASP communication but I truly believe that it couldn’t have been avoided even in the olden days before Internet. People, and any conflicts arising between people, don’t change.</p>