<p>I have a friend from TASP choosing Duke over Deep Springs, Yale, and the Telluride House at Cornell (you may not be familiar with this, but its connected to Deep Springs). I think finances might have influenced his decision- he got the robertson (?) scholarship, which is apparently a huge deal (full tuition, research...)</p>
<p>wow ur friend is really smart lol</p>
<p>northwestern, rice, $$$$ case, nd, bc (honors), BME at Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>I'm turning down chicago, cmu, upenn</p>
<p>RichardCory: what is TASP?</p>
<p>whitechocolate: isnt bme at hopkins stronger than at duke?</p>
<p>bombbradenton: did your friend get an AB duke scholarship?</p>
<p>i know some1 with an AB duke scholarship going 2 yale over it</p>
<p>"whitechocolate: isnt bme at hopkins stronger than at duke?"</p>
<p>No offense, but it's pretty funny how seriously people take rankings. Aren't JHU and Duke, #1 and #2? </p>
<p>Not that it would matter if the spread was much wider. At the undergrad level, you're going to cover the same ground regardless.</p>
<p>Chlor, TASP (Telluride Association Summer Program) is a six week humanities-based seminar at one of four campuses: Cornell (two programs), WashU, UT Austin, and Michigan. It's an extremely intense intellectual environment, and admits about 80 out of 900+ applicants (about 15-17 TASPers per program). </p>
<p>The Telluride Association, its parent organization, was founded by the same guy who founded Deep Springs, and is run out of similar funds (though these two organizations are completely autonomous). There are Telluride Houses at Cornell and Michigan which students can live at during the year. The houses, similar to TASP, use self governance to foster strong intellectual/communal feel. </p>
<p>Past Telluriders include Paul Wolfowitz, Frances ***uyama,Steven Weinberg...
Past Professors living at the Telluride House include: Allan Bloom (Paul W.'s mentor), Linus Pauling, Richard Feynman, Michel Foucault, etc...</p>
<p>Basically, TASP and Telluride and Deep Springs are awesome.</p>
<p>Duke over Boston College, Boston U, UIUC, Washu, Johns hopkins, couple safeties, and waitlist at northwestern</p>
<p>Richard,</p>
<p>I feel honored, although you make me sound much more impressive than I actually am.</p>
<p>It's John, not richard. My screen name is from a poem called Richard Cory, you should read it. I thought since I saw this thread I would talk you up!...though I still think you should go to Cornell...</p>
<p>Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech, Chicago, and Rice... go Duke! : )</p>
<p>randomperson: i saw you post on the chicago forum that you got a full-ride there, and that's where you're gonna go. what made you change your mind to duke?? just curious</p>
<p>Full postgraduate scholarship at Phillips Academy, Andover.</p>
<p>I am a native Chinese in Beijing. So I thought about doing pg at a boarding school in the U.S. before going to college.</p>
<p>Penn, Brown, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Vandy</p>
<p>Most difficult decision Ive ever made</p>
<p>Hey i know who you're talking about! Yousef, that is. I met him at the Robbie weekend. Smart kid.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins, Pitt (full tuition + $2k/year), Penn State ($9.5k/year), Maryland ($10k/year), USC (half tuition)</p>
<p>When I sent my card back rejecting Maryland, it asked for the reason why I wouldn't be attending and I wrote "Duke has better basketball".</p>
<p>Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Northwestern, UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, UCSD, Johns Hopkins, and a Wait-List Harvard</p>
<p>wait a minute . . . did u go to Duke blue devil day on friday 14th paniwani?</p>
<p>UC Berkeley</p>
<p>i went to the blue devil days on the 24th; btw i'm from cali</p>