<p>If I could just get an interview, I’d be okay…</p>
<p>Oh, why didn’t I work harder on the essays…?</p>
<p>hoping for more acceptances in honor of leap year…</p>
<p>@Leisha13 I know how you feel… My only hope of going to a summer program is if it’s free, or at least close to free.</p>
<p>I can’t believe it… in just a few days I’ll be finding out whether or not one of the most prestigious summer programs in the country wants me. The mere thought of it is just overwhelming. I feel for you guys. No matter what happens, though, I’m sure that each and every one of us will end up doing something great this summer, and that each and every one of us will lead great lives. Thanks to TASP for this experience, and good luck to all of us!</p>
<p>hmmm, if I don’t get in, I’ll probably get a second job and/or take flight lessons, as well as maybe go to leakycon (I think I’m lying to myself, if I don’t get in, I’ll eat cheetos and sleep because that’s what summer’s always been about ^_^)</p>
<p>Lol^</p>
<p>@Gottahavawawa I hope you’re right; I really want to do something this summer… My summers are always boring… >.< </p>
<p>TASP, please love us<3</p>
<p>Just got my rejection notification 2 minutes ago. (Yes: to those of you just reading this, now is the time to panic)</p>
<p>Can’t say I’m particularly surprised, though, with how my luck has been as of late.</p>
<p>Still. Am very depressed. Goodbye shiny pre-college program, hello summer of nothing. 
(crawls off into a corner to die)</p>
<p>I got my rejection email too. 
I expected it, but it still totally sucks… Next year is going to suck when I get rejection letters. :/</p>
<p>MITES program; PLEASE accept me<3</p>
<p>Or CURIE Academy, STEP-UP or SSEP…</p>
<p>~4.92% acceptance rate = ouch. I expected it, but I’m still upset.
WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY??? <em>headdesk</em></p>
<p>Oh well. There’s always PREFACE, if I get in. :/</p>
<p>Haha I’m actually not planning on getting any rejection letters next year… 
I’m applying to mostly in-state public colleges (with the exception of Duke… which I am applying to completely on a lark. I thought I had a chance before, but now… I’m beginning to doubt).
But anyways… I like the idea of going to college for free. 
Med school is expensive enough anyway. I don’t need any more debt on top of that…</p>
<p>I was going to try for MITES (Hispanic status FTW) but we’re middle class; it wasn’t gonna happen. Seemed cool, though.</p>
<p>Oh my god.</p>
<p>I’m a finalist.</p>
<p>That was an email that I was not expecting. </p>
<p>Wow. Wow. Wow.</p>
<p>Nope. I expected it, but I’m still sad.</p>
<p>@watchmesoar Congrats!! :-D</p>
<p>Rejected. I was expecting it, so I’m actually not that sad. Haven’t even cried (yet). I just wish they could tell us what was wrong so I can know what not to say next year.</p>
<p>Good luck to all the finalists!</p>
<p>My heart was beating so fast before I opened my rejection email that I was pretty shocked, by the time I had finished reading it, to notice that I was completely calm. No weeping, no cursing the gods, not even a lingering feeling of loss.</p>
<p>I guess that TASP is so selective now that most of the applicant pool never got their hopes up in the first place. There are enough TASPlicants every year for the program to fill all sixty-four slots with near-perfect candidates. I’m sure that anyone working for TASP would argue with that, but that said, everyone who they rejected this year probably lacked the balance of character and creativity, or vulnerability and academic finesse, that they were looking for.</p>
<p>I don’t feel like I’ve lost anything, though, because just following this thread has opened my eyes to exactly how many interesting, creative, and intellectually curious people there are out there. And everyone who really threw their heart into the application process, in my opinion, deserved to spend their summer at TASP just as much as the lucky few who will.</p>
<p>…:(</p>
<p>Yay! Interview!! I’m so happy!!!</p>
<p>List: watchmesoar
cupcakelover373</p>
<p>Congrats to those who got an interview. :P</p>
<p>And I didn’t really feel anything either… I didn’t cry, I didn’t even really get all that sad… Disappointed, yes, but not sad… </p>
<p>Oh well…</p>
<p>Alas, I too have been rejected…</p>
<p>Strangely I’m not particularly upset, probably because the inconceivably negligible chance of even being selected for an interview turned me off to the reality of TASP a while back.</p>
<p>Congratulations and good luck to those who have interviews!</p>
<p>I’m a finalist…</p>
<p>I’ve never been more shocked in my life.</p>
<p>@SimpsonLisa</p>
<p>CONGRATS! You totally deserve it :D</p>
<p>@AnnieZ</p>
<p>Thank you so much! :D</p>
<p>Have you heard from them yet, Annie?</p>