@cherryglazerrr If you are selected to move to the next round, you’ll get a finalist email. In the email, it will request for your transcript, ask you to submit an essay you wrote for class, and ask you to have a teacher recommend you (they will give you a google form for your teacher to fill out, it doesn’t have to be a full letter of recommendation).
Also, you don’t have to schedule/request the interview, Telluride will assign you an interviewer and your interviewer will contact you independently.
is there a preference on which teacher we choose for our recommendation? and is the mid-march notification accurate or will we be receiving an acceptance earlier than that? how long should the essay be and does the topic matter? and what types of questions will be presented at the interview? @CreativeWalrus
@cherryglazerrr I don’t think it matters which teacher you ask as long as it’s one who can attest to both your academic skills and personal character. They say “mid-March” but traditionally TASP finalist decisions are sent out in very early March. For us, it will probably by sometime between Friday, March 1 and Friday, March 8.
If you become a finalist, Telluride gives you a recommended word length for your submitted essay, but when I applied to TASS I submitted an essay nearly twice as long as the recommended length and it didn’t seem to hurt me. I can’t really say with certainty if the topic of your essay has an impact. For the interview, @5toryt3ll3r is probably a better source than me, but all I know for sure is that the interview will be based off your essays, but each interview is different and they may stick very close to what you wrote or may go on a tangent based on what ideas you bring up.
The wait is almost everyone! Just a few more days!
@cherryglazerrr From what the other TASPers in my cohort and I discussed, it seems like the interview can vary quite a bit from person to person! Thankfully, mine was pretty chill - I had two alumni, one newer and one who went to TASP a while back. One of them took notes on her laptop, though they both asked me questions. They mostly focused on aspects of my essays that could have posed ‘issues’ of sorts, were I to be accepted to TASP. For example, they asked me a lot about online school, and if I’d had experience living with other people my age (I had, at music camp the summer before). They also wanted me to expand more on my conflict essay, which, as you guys know, was pretty out there, lol.
The finalist email, besides of course congratulating you in its form-mail way, asks you to 1) request that a teacher or guidance counselor complete a Recommendation Form for you; 2) request that your school mail your transcript; and 3) send a paper you’ve written for school, preferably with teacher’s comments. It also gives info on when interviews are (March and April) and optional stipends.
How long after the interview do you know if you’ve actually been awarded a spot in the program and how likely are you to get the seminar and location that you have predominantly selected in the essays? Also, what are the accommodations like? Does each person get one room and a bathroom or is it shared?
@kanagawa same. i wish we knew when decisions were coming out (date + time). knowing it can come any second is making me have a mini heart attack at every new email i get
I have an SAT retake to study for on the 9th haha. The extra stress isn’t helping… hopefully they send the rejection email early tomorrow like they did in 2016
if I get rejected on the 8th and the subsequent 2-day depression period overlaps with the SAT and I bomb I will be salty af
I just called and left a voicemail since they are closed on the weekend. The voicemail consisted of asking when the emails will be sent out. I’ll update you guys if anything comes from that.