<p>@Watermark123: Ditto… PSAT.
How far are you guys on your essays? What awards and activities did you other TASP-ers include on the app?</p>
<p>LOL I have one out of four essays done (the other two are basically lists, I don’t really think they use those for admissions purposes as much).</p>
<p>So much work with DECA reports and job work and arghhhhhhh</p>
<p>Haha sorry about the incessant nagging about the mailed invitations (i think my mom might have accidentally thrown it away) but what did the invitations consist of?</p>
<p>^ it’s just the printout version of the online brochure on TASP apply page ^^;</p>
<p>the essays are killerz o_O spending a lot of time on it over the break and they are still pretty messy. Geez can’t believe the holiday is over already. Wish I had more day off to work on the application. Essays are my only hope, my EC has nothing really special and i don’t have many awards either :(</p>
<p>Same here… though my 2nd essay’s beginning to Sound garbled.</p>
<p>I came across a tasper on the forum who made b’s and c’s in their classes (though apparently he was somewhat of a genius) and others who rushed in their essays so I really wouldn’t worry about the academic/extracurricular portion of the application.</p>
<p>On a side note (I’m getting a little bothered by the amount of stress we’re needlessly putting ourselves through on these applications ) whart are you guys interested in?</p>
<p>What score do you need to get mail from TASP? I had a 233. Shouldn’t that be high enough?</p>
<p>99th percentile in your state - I assume that means you have to get a perfect score, or pretty darn close. People in more rural states can get a bit lower, while if you live in populated/competitive areas like New York or Cali, getting 238~240 is your best bet. But you really don’t need to get the mail to apply, so it shouldn’t be a big deal.</p>
<p>Is anyone writing their critical analyses on a movie?</p>
<p>^ wow I am! haven’t even started on it yet, though :(</p>
<p>How are you guys showing your own views and thoughts in the interesting topic essay? I’m not sure if I should use first person and directly state my opinions or just let it show through the points that I’m arguing</p>
<p>Leerin- I live in California and I got the email notification even though I only got a 210 (arghh), so their minimum was probably a 200 or something? Idks.</p>
<p>For the crit. Analysis, I wanted to do a song, but I figured it’d be too hard. I’m doing a book instead 
and I’m not using “I” or anything just arguing my point.</p>
<p>-I’m like reaaally new to CC (yepp, created an account just for tasp. can you say commitment? :D). but anyway, I don’t know how to do stuff on here so forgive me for my inexperience-</p>
<p>9 more days!!! one more essay to go…</p>
<p>Is anyone up for an essay swap? If you are you can just PM either me or Darthead123 (he and I have been contacting each other)</p>
<p>@ awesomeirl and darthead123
I strongly discourage you from swapping essays with anyone online. Have a teacher or a parent or an irl friend look at them.</p>
<p>I’ve already done the conflict and preference essays, and I’m going to try to get the “hopes and plans” and “topic in a field that interests me” essays done today. That will leave me with the book list and the critical analysis… </p>
<p>The Critical Analysis is going to be what ruins me. I don’t even know how to do it or what to do it about (I’m thinking about using a poem, though!). It has been a long time since I have read a novel outside of school - I wish I could write a unique (as in not a school assignment) analysis of a book that I read in school…</p>
<p>@vivendium
Same here… I don’t know if I’ll even be using cc aside from this x)</p>
<p>I only recently heard about TASP, so that’s 6 essays to do in a week? Yeah, there goes any chance I had, but I’m still hoping :P</p>
<p>I’ve got a few questions about the essays that maybe some of you might be able to answer.</p>
<p>First of all, are we allowed to do our analysis on something we read outside of school and then later read in school? I really want to do my analysis on Hamlet, which we recently read in my English class but I actually read it over summer first because I was personally interested in it. (I have a habit of doing things like that. I did the same thing for Romeo and Juliet; we read it in class in 9th grade but I read it in the spring of my 8th grade year). Does the fact that I read it in school after-the-fact disqualify me from using it in my essay? I emailed TASP about this over winter break from the “Request Information” section of the website but naturally they have not replied. :(</p>
<p>Secondly, for the topic of interest essay, I’m confused as to how one writes an effective argumentative essay without making it resemble a research paper. In my case, I’ve done a lot of research about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and basically I want to argue in my essay that the US is on the wrong side of the issue. But in order to back up this opinion wouldn’t I have to include historical facts, statistics, etc.? Where do we draw the line between “factually-supported opinion paper” and “research paper?”</p>
<p>@ WynterSunThe lines drawn when you express your opinion/viewpoints concerning the topic of interest. A typical research paper is free of a biased opinion; basically, unlike the TASP topic of interest paper, you’d stray from using first person pronouns</p>
<p>I see. So basically as long as I make an argument I should be fine?</p>