<p>^I wrote all of my essays the night of the deadline. I’m in a different time zone so I was writing until 2am when there was a 5am deadline. I cannot tell you how shocked I am that I have an interview!</p>
<p>It’s making me very nervous about the interview though because I think my essays (some of them, anyway…) are quite terrible.</p>
<p>@rhemmingfield: hey bro, lemme tell you just how deep into the soybean racket i was before i managed to pull myself out!</p>
<p>nah, just kidding, here’s the picture that my username came from (it’s not even that funny - the thing is that one of my quiet buddies used it in a presentation for a big laugh and i was proud of him): [The</a> Soup Mines! by Bob Rost](<a href=“The Soup Mines! by Bob Rost”>The Soup Mines! by Bob Rost)</p>
<p>hi everyone i was chosen as a finalist and so i have perhaps a way-late question to ask, one which probably a lot of people have, which is, like, how can i/you guys gauge the legitimacy of this program?</p>
<p>obviously it’s free and hosted at cornell both of which sort of ease my fears but the fact remains that all i can really find on it is a) its own website, b) this thread, c) a wikipedia page, and d) like three Yahoo Answers pages, none of which really help at all with what i’m looking for.</p>
<p>like do you guys have any idea where i could really find a place and/or multiple places which would really make me go “ahh, alright now i know there’s no ‘catch’ to this whole process”</p>
<p>^It’s legit. </p>
<p>[url=<a href=“Summer Session - Courses & Programs - Courses for Credit”>Summer Session - Courses & Programs - Courses for Credit]Telluride</a> Association Summer Program / Courses / Cornell Summer Session<a href=“On%20the%20actual%20Cornell%20website.”>/url</a></p>
<p>No interview 
Well… On the bright side I can look forward to a summer of movie marathons!</p>
<p>Lol^</p>
<p>You’re not going to apply any where else?</p>
<p>Speaking of, where else is/did everyone else applying/apply?</p>
<p>So far:</p>
<p>TASP
MITES
STEP-UP
CURIE Academy
SSEP</p>
<p>Nope I’ve only applied to this, and two others, one of which I’ve rejected because I feel other students are more passionate about sciences and business than I am. Plus it had a relatively large price tag.
I’m sure a well planned summer of volunteering, jobs, travel or something else enlightening will do :P</p>
<p>I didn’t apply anywhere else. If I don’t get in, I’ll be doing the same as @kdengg. Volunteering, job…</p>
<p>Just curious-does anyone know how similar the TASP selection process is to college admissions processes? That is, does the fact that I was rejected from this program indicate that I’m not a good candidate for colleges of similar selectivity? My thought is that if I’m not in the top 10% of the TASP applicant pool, I probably won’t be in the top 10% of university applicant pools either.</p>
<p>Not at all, TASP only considered essays to decide interviews. In the real college applications, there is a much more holistic process where everything is examined. Just because you dont get into TASP doesnt mean you wont get into the ivys. People with straight C’s could have gotten asked for an interview theoretically. They just look at essays so it is such a crap shoot whether you will get an interview even though you are “qualified”</p>
<p>@SimpsonLisa well yes i know it’s legit insofar as it’s actually hosted on a real ivy league college campus and stuff. just the complete lack of information on the internet, the free-ness (which i guess should sway me -away- from thinking that it’s a scam but somehow it sort of vaguely creeps me out), and the fact that nobody i know IRL knows anything about it just make me sort of skeptical. not trying to be cynical or anything but i’m just curious if there’s any info on / endorsements of it outside of the people who are actually involved in making it happen (like cornell and the TA itself)</p>
<p>Just got my first-round pass in the email!</p>
<p>Congrats to all who made it into the top 130.</p>
<p>Good luck to all interviewees.</p>
<p>=D</p>
<p>^ i have terrible grades and got an interview.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who found the wording of the rejection email slightly derisive? I wasn’t a fan of the way it said there were other applicants who were “more qualified”. (Absolutely NOTHING against those of you who got interviews, I admire you all so very very much and you are all brilliant geniuses with the writing abilities of a champion.) I just feel that considering the fact that the selection was based solely on essays, it does not adequately display the full range of our “qualification.”</p>
<p>Sorry for ranting lol. Congrats again to all those who got interviews!</p>
<p>could you copy and paste the rejection letter? id like to see it</p>
<p>We have now finished reading over 1,300 applications for the 64 places in this year’s Summer Programs. I am sorry to inform you that your application was not one of those selected for interview.</p>
<p>Due to the volume of applications, I regret that we cannot provide you with the specific reasons for our decision. Every year, we receive applications from far more qualified students than we are able to offer interviews. It is our great privilege to be able to read the work of some of the most outstanding high school juniors in the U.S. and from around the world. We very much appreciate the time and effort you put into our rigorous and demanding application. Even though the outcome was not what you hoped for, it is our hope that the experience of applying will have been valuable for you as you prepare for college and other scholarship applications.</p>
<p>Thank you once again for the time and effort you invested in applying. We wish you the best for the future.</p>
<p>I thought it was pretty cordial as well. At least they didn’t make me feel as if I had wasted my time…</p>
<p>@nawtsocliche
you read it wrong. it wasn’t saying the finalists were more qualified than you; it was saying that they had more qualified applicants than they could offer places to. the keyword is than, if it had been “that,” then it would be insulting.</p>
<p>@nawtsocliche</p>
<p>If the letter that @CantConcentrate posted was the same one you received, I’m guessing “more qualified”, in the context of the sentence, meant that they had more qualified applicants than they had finalist spaces. </p>
<p>I’m sorry to hear neither of you got in though and am very shocked as I’ve seen both of you posting on other parts of the website and you both would have been more than “qualified”. It’s just like Ivy admissions. As random as rolling a dice…</p>
<p>@jackjim956: Haha, your comment about the possible substitution of “that” for “than” made me laugh when I reread that sentence.</p>