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<p>Of course! TA is a private association, which means they can exercise as much liberty with their admissions and actions as they want without trespassing legal boundaries. I only expressed my sentiments that TASP should not attempt to control/regulate/influence discussions about them on a completely independent message board in an interventionist fashion. </p>
<p>(Yes, the thread is getting ridiculous, but why shut it down? Productive posts are still being made.)</p>
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Not necessarily true.</p>
<p>I and Antagonist and others are happy alums who want to help out future applicants. I will certainly be happy to leave if I am unwelcome here. Telluride Association does ask its alums to direct questioners to the website, rather than proceed with direct interaction; we have chosen to do otherwise, I at least because I valued the support group that the 2009 TASP thread provided. </p>
<p>I’m not sure how you interpret my response as “stalking the CC TASP thread 24/7.” There is such a thing as email and automatic thread notifications. Quite useful things, in fact.</p>
<p>In the past, TASPs have been irrevocably divided by online networking. Fully 1/3 of my TASP was familiar with CC, but happily we had no such schism. It remains a not-insignificant risk, and TA has a reasonable duty to try to contain such risk.</p>
<p>Aristocrat, TA is both within its legal and ethical bounds to ask College Confidential to close this thread. And CC is within its legal and ethical bounds to deny that request. After reading some past TASPers problems with CC cliques, and especially given the enormous amount of resources, financial, emotional, and intellectual that must go into orchestrating a TASP, I don’t blame them at all for trying to keep people relatively cloistered until they arrive. I think that the important thing here is that any regulating of discussion that TA would attempt would be trying to ensure the best possible experience for attendees, not trying to stop a discussion in which they are portrayed unfavorably, for good reason or not. The latter, though not equivalent to, would be somewhat similar to censorship, and not acceptable. However, with the former, their actions would be in good faith, for the good of their participants, so I see no issue with it.</p>
<p>Just an aside, is anybody else getting tempted to send this into “The Ethicist” with the NYT Magazine?</p>
<p>Also, can somebody fill me in on how to do quoting? I’m atrocious when it comes to BB code and the like.</p>
<p>EDIT: A question not even about the application itself, but the program: When there are two TASPs at one location, do the TASPs interact with each other at all (not in the seminars of course, but during the free times)? Just curious.</p>
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<p>Again, If my post was a little harsh-sounding, it was because it was made on the (now recognized as uninformed) assumption that you and Antagonist were official representatives of the Telluride Association attempting to proceed with the enforcement of what I perceived to be a censorship campaign akin to that done by many corporate figures and influential individuals who do not want to be portrayed negatively. I apologize if my posting was offending to you or any other TASP alumni; people get ahead of themselves when it’s 11:45 PM and coffee is not at hand :). I am just so very fed up from my past experience with Spambots and pro-Communist posters constantly trying to DoS/censor things they don’t like that I jumped to the conclusion that TA was undertaking a similar scheme. Again, sorry for any nonobjective remarks that may have caused some disharmony, but my point stands that shutting down a thread will do no good; people will network no matter what is done to this. New threads, IRL communication (well-qualified people frequently end up in the same programs and contests), so it’s an effect that should be self-regulated rather than actively prevented.</p>
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<p>Thanks! Also, I appreciated your allusion to the Streisand effect.</p>
<p>Okay, wow. This thread got a lot more serious since I made my last post.</p>
<p>I agree that people should go and check the official website’s FAQ and Ask a TASPer before coming on here and asking questions, but y so srs, everyone? D:</p>
<p>The vibes in here are getting kind of scary.</p>
<p>Chill y’all. I suggest we all take a step back for a day or two and just calm down (that includes you guys too, Antagonist and Keilexandra–<3zies to you both).</p>
<p>To clear a few things up:</p>
<p>This has been said before but bears repeating: NO ONE POSTING HERE IS AN OFFICIAL TA REP. If you want the official TA answer to anything, go to the website and ask. We can offer advice only because we’ve gone through the entire process of writing essays for, interviewing for, and attending TASP.</p>
<p>In addition, Antagonist is right that some people who read essays occasionally check this thread out. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THIS. For one thing, nothing you have done so far is at all harmful. Asking the same questions over and over again might be mildly annoying, but it’s not going to affect the social dynamic of the program. It’s true that sometimes pre-TASP impressions are unavoidable, but try to minimize them. TASPs are so small that if two or three people come in with bad impressions of one another from the internet it could adversely affect everyone’s interactions. That being said, you guys seem to be doing a fine job avoiding that so far. For another thing, I doubt people in TA have the time/interest level to diligently match usernames to apps, and even if they did, like I said before, none of you should be worried. Just continue to treat this like anything else on the internet–public. Imagine your sweet old granny reading your posts and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not sure where this idea came from that the Telluride Association shut down the thread last year. If I recall correctly, the thread was “re-started” due to massive TOS violations that occurred during a flame war, and deleted after it had served its purpose because the archive of CC would have been messed up. If anything is deleted, it is deleted by a CC mod. It’s absolutely ridiculous to think of TA being so draconian in controlling how much people talk before-hand–they tell people not to, they trust them not to. Obviously it is their choice wether they choose to follow that or not (I would suggest you do just because it’s more fun that way).</p>
<p>Also, please stop with the “TASP doesn’t want apps from people like you” nonsense. It’s elitist, and ridiculous. TASP is a SUMMER PROGRAM, you’re not applying for a Noble Prize. </p>
<p>I think it would be good at this point to repost embeezy’s “rules.” Hell it wouldn’t be a bad idea to post them every 20 pages or so from now on</p>
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<p>Tl;dr: Chill. Have fun/good luck with your essays.</p>
<p>I am applying because TASP suits me. And I enjoy writing the essays because I can write about things that are so true to me. I think all of us share the same feeling. </p>
<p>This thread has helped me realize that there are many people in the world who are so generous and so kind to take their precious time helping people who are complete strangers in reality. I cannot describe how thankful I am to all of you. Thank you all for contributing to this thread!</p>
<p>However, I have found out that maybe I am relying too much on this thread that sometimes I post questions whose answers can be found on the official website. Maybe we should all step back a bit and trust our own abilities more. We are all independent people having unique and awesome thoughts, aren’t we? Otherwise we won’t be even thinking about applying for such a stimulating and challenging program. </p>
<p>We all love TASP and let’s not get too serious.</p>
<p>What wombat said.</p>
<p>Love,
embeezy, AKA a high school senior/former TASPer/NOT a Telluride Association official rep. ya got me? (:</p>
<p>Everyone seems to be irritated with the fact that there are repetitive questions and I am extremely sorry in advance if this question has already been asked or if it’s just a stupid question, but I’m just curious. People keep saying that if you get accepted into TASP, you may meet some people you’ve already met online through CC, so you should watch what you say. However, how will fellow TASPers know if you posted on CC, unless you actually tell them?</p>
<p>I think they did know enough to figure out who is who in Austinland since so many went there.
I heard they’d been calling each other by username for the length of the program. It is a bit, strange.</p>
<p>@Bears and Dogs:</p>
<p>Rumors are just rumors. In Austinland we called each other by our names.</p>
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Um, not at all. We called no one at TASP by his or her CC name, and there were only four or five of us in “Austinland” (?) that were on the TASP thread beforehand. If anything, we slip up on * here * and call each other by our real names sometimes (ahem, wombat!). I’d really love to know where you hear all of this nonsensical rubbish about TASP, bears and dogs.</p>
<p>maybe I misunderstood being ESL and dyslexia -tic.
I am also on the side of the SoCal sunflower boy and the furby, maybe that is the problem, and also the stalker of 2010 parent thread, I mean I am the one, too, should join them instead of bothering youngum’s here.
Sorry kids</p>
<p>I was starting my essay about the conflict I had… and, I was wondering, does the conflict have to be a single instance?
My family has moved 4 or 5 times and I actually learned a lot by having to make new friends every couple of years. Can I write about all my moves and talk about what I learned from each or is it better to stick to 1 move? </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>@achalddave - I actually wrote about an entire process that spanned over around two years, and all the conflicts I experienced because of it. I don’t see anything wrong with having multiple instances. The title doesn’t specify a single instance, so it doesn’t have to be.</p>
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<p>For the most part this is true. However, it is possible to reveal personality online, especially if you guys start using this forum to “get to know eachother” or post topics, or what have you. People have locations, and usually say where they’re going when they are accepted. It’s not often that hard to figure out who someone is on CC if, for example, they’re the only other person from PA, or if they’re from LA and really, really, into public transportation. We did ultimately tell eachother, just because there were so many of us from CC.</p>
<p>Ok, I lied. just this one last bit, then I’ll be gone.
Wombat, so there were sort of "too many " in Austinland = four or five out of 16 or 18? and if I remember correctly, since the thread is gone I can’t look it up- Austin kids were the most vocal and excited bunches from the beginning.
I did look back where I heard rumor that enbeezy said not to believe, it is in THIS very thread in the beginning! page 4 or 5 sh.
I thought I read it in somewhere else, maybe I did, too.
So you kids had some issues in the Austin, OK, maybe the SoCal boy was the weird one, not you guys here that want to help '10 TASPes without giving funny idea what might happen if you get too involved in this thread.
I don’t know…
I sent my kid to TASP without cell phone and the place was big on rules to stay in the community without talking to outside folks.
I did not know what was going on day in day out at the Telluride house and was dyeing to know, stalked TASP-CCer’s posts came in somehow at times when they’d supposed to be in the seminar counting time deference in Austinland.
Eventually I got attached to one of them.</p>
<p>Say, '10 kids, let’s not worry, or worry when you get in. Just don’t say something you’d regret or will become regend, i.e. Furby.
bye</p>
<p>page 3 or 4 sh, sorry</p>