<p>sigh. i am avoiding the WMUT esssay ( what makes you tick)- its funny that I have so many names for it.,… :)</p>
<p>DON’T WORRY ABOUT BEING UNIQUE! Don’t worry about the readers either. Look at the prompt, think about it and yourself, write your essays. I wrote my conflict essay about divorce, one of the most cliche topics possible, because that was what I felt like I should write about.</p>
<p>Take this to heart: “All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” -Bob Dylan</p>
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I still have no idea which essay this is supposed to mean. #4, perhaps?</p>
<p>i mean, i see no reason why i wouldn’t, but just in case…</p>
<p>No, it’s not mandatory, confusedchild416</p>
<p>do you know anyone who has declined? sorry if i sound neurotic, just want to make sure :)</p>
<p>dunbar, the WMUT essay is the essay which asks you tio write about any topic whatsoever.
That’s why I call it the what makes you tick essay b/c its the TASP judgers looking inside of you for what you are most passionate about.</p>
<p>For the seminar essay, how much are we supposed to write? I find it hard even to reach 1000 words.</p>
<p>@confused:</p>
<p>It is not mandatory. One of my TASPers was actually on the waitlist for TASP, and she made it into TASP, thus people do decide not to go.</p>
<p>I’m having difficulty reaching 700 worlds on the “why each seminar” essay…</p>
<p>WAIT why would we obviously not write about the death penalty?? Oh, no…</p>
<p>wombatsoup said this:
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<p>I wouldn’t worry about it haha.</p>
<p>Oh, I didn’t even read that, I just freaked out right away. Thank God!</p>
<p>On “cliche” topics–I wrote my conflict essay about religion and my topic of concern essay on race. Not exactly original, though the race essay was not the usual spin.</p>
<p>Some years no one gets off the waitlist, because TASP has a very high yield; last year at least three people declined. It all depends. The waitlist is ranked and they will ignore seminar preferences (which they sometimes do anyway, for balancing purposes).</p>
<p>I’m sorry if a question like this has been posted before, but I don’t think I’d be using good time management skills if I searched through 35 pages of forum posts.</p>
<p>What is the average or acceptable essay length? I know the maximum is 1500 words, and that I won’t be able to get an official answer to this question, but judging from the experience of past TASPers and the essays you have written so far, does a 750-1200 range sound reasonable or might that begin to hurt chances?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Okay, eeesh. Sorry about the common essay topic comment. I just figured…a lot of overused topics are difficult to connect to yourself…but I shouldn’t generalize. So if you can make a topic relate to yourself, by all means write about it. (I shouldn’t post on this board after midnight. I don’t think straight.)</p>
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<p>As long as you feel you really can’t write any more, your essay is fine. However, if it’s really, really short (under 600 words?), your topic might be a little narrow. Your word range seems okay… My first drafts range from 600 words to almost exactly 1500…bleh. Need some work there.</p>
<p>I haven’t written anything since finishing essay 1. </p>
<p>Btw ~ Does TASP have international students? I’m just curious.</p>
<p>International applicant here 
Not sure about actual previous TASPs though. I’d think there would at least be a few, right?</p>
<p>International applicant here as well… Hope that I can just be one of the “a few”.</p>
<p>@carbon, international applicants do indeed attend TASP. I remember meeting someone from Hong Kong. I’ve also heard of TASPers from Turkey, Malaysia, etc. too.</p>
<p>As for the word limit, just don’t go over 2 pages and you’re fine. Most of my essays took up 1.5 pages. Lol, poor readers.</p>