Jmbhockey5

Welcome to the official thread for TASP 2010!



Hey everyone! I know it's only September, but I'm already excited to start the application process for TASP. Who all is planning on applying? I cannot wait for the seminar topics to be posted. Hooray class of 2011!

smart.cookie

This is adorable in it's earliness.

Best of luck,
TASPers 2009! (got'em)

ThisCircusWheel

Oh, thank goodness for this thread. The one posted a few weeks ago with the lack of capitalization and such made me cringe.

I'm planning on applying. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

coollege

when is the application due? I'm probably going to apply to TASP and LEAD Business, and get rejected by both of them!

Jmbhockey5

Applications for TASP usually are due sometime in January. According to Telluride's website, the actual materials for applying will be released in December. I'm not sure about LEAD Business, though.

Most of us will probably end up being rejected, but we should still apply. Who knows? Maybe an essay reader will amazingly find worthiness in our writing... eep!

ThisCircusWheel

Even though the acceptance rate overall for TASP seems to be around 5-10%, for CC posters, it tends to be much higher. I think in 2009, about 25% of the people who posted in the CC TASP thread got in. That makes me hopeful.

Though, we do have the extra competitiveness this year, what with there only being 3 sessions. >.>

coollege

but some CC people are just insane

Keilexandra

Last year's CC stats:
Applicants 68
Interviewees 35
Accepted 21
Waitlist 2 (at least 1 accepted, included in Accepted stat)
2nd-R Acceptance 60%
Overall Acceptance 31%

raiderade

I'm definitely applying even though I know my odds of acceptance are quite slim since I'm not a fantastic writer. I know one of the essay questions ask you to discuss an issue that's really important you. I'm wondering though, how random can it be? The issue I'm thinking about is not strongly related to humanities (though I could construe it that way) and it's highly random, but it does make me tick, so I'm not too sure.

wombatsoup

You should write about it if it makes you tick. That is what makes an issue/topic of choice essay good, it's the writers interest in the topic not the topic itself. One person wrote about computers in his topic essay at my TASP, another wrote about urban development. I wrote about the afterlife (or rather the benefits of a lack thereof), which is something I had been thinking a lot about at the time. I would say the best strategy would be to write about the first thing you think of when you see the prompt, as long as it's serious and you can put real thought into it. You really can write about anything.

Bara2011

Yay Telluride!! I did TASS and would recommend a Telluride program to any one! Just applying is a learning experience.

CALEB JOE BAFFOE

I want to register

Antagonist

You should still apply even if you aren't a great writer. I think that TASP honestly judges a lot more on the context rather then grammar and flow. You hafta be able to think; and I wasn't that great of a writer (ask any of my TASPers) and I made it into TASP.


Topic of choice essays are always the best judge of who the person is. Go with what Wombat said to you, write about something you know and are passionate about, and like what Wombat said the topic doesn't hafta be humanities related. I think that only one of my essays was barely even closely related to humanities.

Keilexandra

^ Agreed. Content, analysis, and original thought are more important than writing ability.

DeirdreTours

If the first essay is still a literary critique, it can be helpful to have the second essay thematically linked. I have seen that done very well/successfully with TASP admissions.