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08-04-2006, 03:15 AM
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#61 | | Member
Join Date: May 2005
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| Generally, how many books is appropriate? Can anyone paste their book list that they submitted (preferably someone whose been accepted to the program)? | 
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08-06-2006, 12:01 PM
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#62 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Mississippi :(
Posts: 281
| I think you missed the point of Chillaxins post, Zachsta. There is no "appropriate" anything for TASP. I had less than 20; some had 70+ | |
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08-19-2006, 05:49 PM
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#63 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Midwest ----> New Haven
Posts: 663
| If you're looking for a free summer program, I recommend the House and Senate Page programs. You actually get paid during your time there, and really get to see the way Washington works, from the floors of Congress. It's a great program if you're into politics, and yes, it is possible to get in if you don't have connections. Contact your representative or senators for an application -- it needs to be in by March for the summer programs. | |
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08-19-2006, 08:15 PM
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#64 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 116
| summer programs for rising sophomores & juniors
My d (rising sophomore) really enjoyed the two-week TOPS Physics
Workshop at MIT's Center for Ultracold Atoms. It's exposure to cutting
edge science and they got to spend time with a professor who won
the Nobel Prize in physics in 2001. It's a day camp although some kids
came from out of state to attend. Just a really neat couple of weeks
for science-oriented kids who are too young for some of the well
known programs mentioned elsewhere on this thread. Check it out,
Bostonians! | |
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08-19-2006, 08:16 PM
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#65 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 116
| MIT Center For Ulytacold Atoms
I forgot to mention that it's free | |
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08-19-2006, 10:02 PM
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#66 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5
| not math!
Math seems to be the summer activity of choice, but spare a thought for a challenging language program. In my experience (I teach these summer courses at the University of Chicago) students who took intensive Greek or Latin have been offered admission all over the place (including Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and of course Chicago), and generous packages (including the Presidential Fellowship at Stanford). Your mileage may vary, but a year's worth (or two) of College Greek and Latin won't hurt your chances. Downside: you may get hooked:-) When you shop around, look carefully if the program is faculty-taught.. many are not. Chicago area public school students can join through the College Bridge program (free tuition). Others - yes, I'm afraid it is private school tuition:-( | |
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08-24-2006, 07:42 PM
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#67 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wharton 2011
Posts: 385
| Yay, TASP. Ditto what chillaxin said. The majority of my book list was non-fiction, but some of my friends had 99% fantasy. Regardless, the book list should reflect your genuine interests. If you loved Freakonomics, put it down! I did. Who cares if it's not quite the same as Nabokov?
Keep in mind, however, that anything on the book list could work its way into the interview.
A sampling of books from my list: - On Globalization by George Soros
- The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
- The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Religion for Dummies by Rabbi Marc Gellman and Monsignor Thomas Hartman
Not always the most intellectual books, you see.. | |
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08-24-2006, 07:57 PM
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#68 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The CPT
Posts: 859
| wait so the books...does TASP specify what kind of booklists they want...e.g. consisting of books you read outside of school, as school required-reading, or both? | |
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08-24-2006, 11:40 PM
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#69 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wharton 2011
Posts: 385
| ^ Both, and they ask you to indicate which are which. | |
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08-27-2006, 12:46 PM
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#70 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Penn
Posts: 6,404
| Um I haven't read through this thread but I'll just post my two cents.
New Jersey Governor's School
New Jersey Scholars Program (not as well-known, but selective and a great experience from what I hear; you learn a lot and meet awesome people who go off and do great things =P) | |
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08-27-2006, 12:58 PM
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#71 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 168
| any great history programs? | |
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09-06-2006, 11:07 PM
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09-12-2006, 07:12 PM
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#75 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 86
| I would like to reiterate theoneo's suggestion of the New Jersey Scholars Program. They don't do any advertising, and instead rely on word of mouth to get applicants. It's only open to NJ residents, and it's free. The Scholars spend five weeks at the Lawrenceville School, studying a different "big topic" every year, looking at it from several viewpoints, and interdisciplinarily. This year, the topic was Africa, but past topics have included Jerusalem and the Middle East, Russia, the Enlightenment, and the Birth of the Modern... it was amazing! Five weeks in a dorm with some of the smartest, coolest, most interesting kids in the country. If you live in NJ and are frustrated by the fact that all of the summer programs in the world- besides TASP- that are selective are math or science- oriented, do New Jersey Scholars Program. It will change your life. | |
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