<p>yeah i started to think about that lol
well i guess I’ll just not include books that I dont really remember</p>
<p>Remember, it’s not supposed to be <em>every</em> book you read, just the major ones. So if you leave off a couple, that’s fine.</p>
<p>Ahh the open ended ones are driving me crazy and I’m drawing a blank of ideas; the one about a specific problem from any field that interests you’ and the literary analysis; I don’t know which book I ought to write about. Hmm, any advice?</p>
<p>I did the literary analysis on a song : )</p>
<p>About the interview–they’re all different. For my interview I prepared bullet point summaries of all my essays and reviewed all my books etc. (maybe I over prepared)–and then I used none of it in the interview. We ended up discussing dictatorships, morality, Kantian philosophy, American politics, etc. for and hour and a half.</p>
<p>BUT I still think it would be a good idea to review them, because you don’t want to be caught off guard =]</p>
<p>I looked over the essays yesterday, and realized I didn’t completely understand the first question. They want a “critical analysis” of a book/song/poem/whatever- are we supposed to just analyze the theme, and just write an english paper? </p>
<p>it shouldn’t be a personal response in any way, right?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>edit: and mny, were there any works of writing that inspired you in some way, or caught your attention? Like, what book is your favorite, and really made you think?</p>
<p>Hey, quick question to any international students who got an interview: if you’re overseas, is it pretty much guaranteed that your interview is going to be over the phone? (I don’t really see TA sending someone out just to interview someone…)</p>
<p>Anyone on the TASP forum from Clements High School in Sugar Land?</p>
<p>For the TASP application…is it better to submit this online?</p>
<p>How many books are on most people’s lists? I’m feeling like my 12 is entirely inadequate and that I should add some more.</p>
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Telluride has no preference, but I’d suggest doing it online. Gives you a little bit of extra time, and if you’re weirdly illogical like me and think the postal service would taint it or something, then you have one less thing to worry about.</p>
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Twelve is fine if all of them are meaningful and representative. I think I had about 12-15, too, though I know some with less and some with much, much more. Whatevs represents you best, ya know?</p>
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This isn’t an English paper, but it is an analysis. You can personalize it if that’s your style and if it adds to your essay, but it shouldn’t be “Tuesdays With Morrie made me really sad but I appreciate life more and here’s why!” </p>
<p>Addendum: feel free to ask questions and/or clarify the answers to old ones, but I’d suggest reading through the thread or searching it to make sure it hasn’t already been answered. Otherwise there will be a ton of the same questions repeated unnecessarily and we’ll probs be less detailed with our answers each time out of weariness. Nahhmean? That said, continue to ask away! We love helping 
(ahem, procrastinating college apps? maybs that’s just me…)</p>
<p>embeezy, thanks for your help! Best of luck with college apps.</p>
<p>Anyways, I’m wondering if its a problem that most of the books on my list are for school. I’ve been reading tons for AP English this year, which has left little time for leisure reading.</p>
<p>thanks embeezy!
and yeah, my book list isn’t too long either. I’m going to put down some books I read over the summer, but most other books will be school required.</p>
<p>I trimmed down my book list to 20 books, of which 6 were required school reading; but since I keep a booklog, my initial list (from which I chose only the books I could discuss substantively from memory) was around 60-some.</p>
<p>Let’s see, I love The Great Gatsby and Fahrenheit 451 and Death of a Salesman and Harry Potter and 1984 and The Golden Compass. I kind of want to do Fahrenheit 451, but I’m afraid that it’s too, I don’t know, overdone? School-ish? What do you think?</p>
<p>I still have issue coming up with an idea for the ‘problem/topic from any field’ essay too. -.-</p>
<p>i dont think Farenheit 451 is too “school-ish”. We dont read it at our school and I dont know any school around here that does lol. I added “The Grapes of Wrath” to my booklist and I think that book is VERY “school-ish” haha. Nonetheless, it’s staying there : )</p>
<p>Um… how off-base can the #2 essay be? Like, I want to argue that clothes shouldn’t be required in public. I can do this very professionally and I have tons of good points to make, but I guess it’s just too out there?</p>
<p>MrJeezy, that could definitely be a really interesting essay, especially if your points are valid and your voice unique. I’d want to read it as an app reader! TA is also as a whole supah liberal and would be a bit more receptive to that kind of topic than most programs, so I say go for it. Live boldly and essay away, kiddie.</p>
<p>For the literary analysis essay, is one supposed to argue something in the perspective of the text? (ex. that Romeo and Juliet were right to get together) or use the text to argue on a broader scale? (ex. that being different shouldn’t keep people from getting along)</p>
<p>I was looking into the Cornell I program, and I wanted to write an essay about the treatment of detainees for question 2. Is it a bonus for me that it has to do directly with the seminar? Or, on the other hand, will it hurt me because they might think I crafted my essay according to the seminar?</p>