<p>Uber - </p>
<p>2100?? is that a made up number? or did you actually get that from somewhere? Cuz if its not made up…well, shoot</p>
<p>The number of Applicants for TASP last year was 900ish (it said that on the online App info pages, now down.) </p>
<p>However this makes sense</p>
<p>86 spots with a ~10% acceptance rate, it maps out to around there.</p>
<p>I was scared because I want to delay getting my rejection letter as long as possible :)</p>
<p>There were actually approximately 2350 applicants… I’m sure you’re all wondering how I know this… well, I’m Ellen Baer. I’ve been monitoring this board to try and get a more natural view of the applicants. Thanks to all those who applied; the decisions have been made and are being finalized as I type. You will receive e-mails within the next week informing you if you have made the finalist list, and formal letters will arrive soon thereafter. Good luck!</p>
<p>JUST JOKING (don’t have a stroke you gullible fool). Only on CC. I hope I don’t get sued! Also, I made up the numbers Dande.</p>
<p>Jesus Christ, uber. If this were real life, I’d playfully but half-seriously hit you. Can you sue for virtual abuse?</p>
<p>We can get to 200 pages of posts no problem.</p>
<p>Uber is going crazy</p>
<p>lol. guys. i’m happy to contribute to our 200-page goal, but there has something to be said about the unhealthy tendency of obsession to fuel other neurotic teenagers on CC. we’re going to hear back in a couple of days, so let’s just… try to stay intact and not go legally insane… of course, this applies to myself as well. i’m going to go zen. starting now.</p>
<p>peace. ommmmm. [shuts out the imminence of tasp interview notifications]</p>
<p>Why am I so gullible -_- I actually believed Uber for half a minute there. </p>
<p>Lol I have totally been CC brainwashed. When I saw 2350 (because my eyes are attracted to numbers first, apparently) I was all, wow that’s a pretty darn good SAT score. -_- What a dork I am.</p>
<p>Haha I realized that I need TWO rec letters for the other summer program I’m applying to. And um, it’s due Friday? I thought I only needed one…so now I have to ask another teacher to write it in…three days 
I hope she’s willing to 
Scary!</p>
<p>If you think about it, the response time is impressively quick. Assuming there are 900 applicants (not to mention 2000!) and each submitted 5 essays (counting the book list and rankings as .5 a piece), readers have 4,500 essays to read. And if each were to average 1.5 pages, that would be 6750 pages to read. Not to mention the fact that each application is read three times. That equals 20,250, what exactly, I don’t know. But that’s a huge number.</p>
<p>Applications were due in late January. That many apps in one month? Really impressive. Really really impressive.</p>
<p><em>wanders in really, really, really late</em></p>
<p>I wish I had known about this place three months ago!</p>
<p>…Hi?</p>
<p>hi!</p>
<p>billy, i remember thinking that too, even if they do have a bazillion (i’m assuming) essay graders. it’s still a heckload of essays. </p>
<p>are you applying to LEAD, tako? i’m too scared to ask my teachers for more recs. i need to find some back up summer programs that don’t require any more teacher recs, because they’ve written enough already.</p>
<p>Billy…that is interesting. Wow. Impressive. TASP people are crazy. When I grow up, I want to become a professional essay reader. Actually, that sounds like an awful lot of fun…</p>
<p>Roamorse - no, I’m applying to the Carnegie Mellon Summer thing. It’s actually crazyyy because they have a course exactly like the one I want to do at TASP (the WashU one) except it’s in Pittsburgh 
sooo hopefully! Knock on wood and cross my fingers. Except I don’t even know if my teacher will be willing to write a recommendation in three days. She is a freshman/sophomore teacher, so hopefully she won’t mind too much :P</p>
<p>I wanted to do LEAD, actually, but I’m not a citizen or permanent resident yet :(</p>
<p>Guys. Calm down. <em>lmao</em> Some of you are borderlining!</p>
<p>I have started mass craziness, never should I have encouraged such rapid insane posting.</p>
<p>Tako- Carnegie Mellon program seems interesting. Not to mention anything like WashU TASP is pretty chill.</p>
<p>Aw, if only I could take part. After a week of February break, I have a ton of work to do before going back to school tomorrow 
:(</p>
<p>Me too, thecomisar. Yet that doesn’t stop me from wasting hours on CC…</p>
<p>Sometimes I imagine how productive I could be if I didn’t waste my time researching colleges, scholarships, spending time on CC, chatting with friends, and reading random books. </p>
<p>I could…probably be done homework at 7 every day (getting home from sports around 5-5:30ish). Imagine that! But instead…I choose to take the procrastinator/wasting time route and finish around 11-12. </p>
<p>Tonight, I expect, if I worked hard from now til whenever I finished, I could be done at 10. I know I will not though, and will probably finish around 11 and wake up at 5 to finish up. Yes, that is my life.</p>
<p>Haha I plan to write my Kaplan “My Turn” Essay on wasting time…and call it “The Art of Procrastination.” I doubt it’ll win (very unlikely, especially my choice of topic) however I will have fun writing it, and that is ultimately what matters (well, no. But whatever :))</p>
<p>Wait, what? We needed TWO teacher recommendations? Why don’t I remember reading this at all?..</p>
<p>it’s way too close to the notification date for me to fix this. <em>sighs</em></p>
<p>I saw my actual SAT essay today. I’m amazed I got an 11; the thing is barely legible. I couldn’t make heads or tails of the ENTIRE concluding paragraph, lol.</p>
<p>I guess it just goes to show that length = good score. I wrote exactly two pages.</p>
<p>POST PARTY WOO! We’re tasplicants, we can accomplish any goal. o_o;;</p>
<p>OH! And some new book reccomendations:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Geisha by Liza Dalby : One of the best books I’ve read on geisha in a long time. Low on images, but high on content. She was an actual american geisha in the 70’s, so she can provide context, which other texts I’ve read (mostly scholarly discourse on geisha) cannot.</p></li>
<li><p>The Waves by Virgina Woolf : Once you get past the seemingly RANDOM way she wrote the book, you’ll realize how bombtastic Virginia is. But it took me 50 half-suicidal pages (“Why can’t I understand this? Have I gone ■■■■■■■■?”) before finally falling in love with it. Note to readers: the characters are children in the beginning. That took me a loooooong time to figure out.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>PS. Sorry if I offended anyone. But that was a movie quote. 50 points to whoever gets it.</p>
<p>AESCHINA: No we only needed one. The 2 recs were for the Carnegie Mellon program Tako is applying to.</p>