<p>ah ok, I misread then, I thought someone said that admissions usually come in the 20th. But still, good luck! </p>
<p>btw, its nice to see that you have applied vegangirl. 
Btw, how was NHD this year, states then nationals are soon eh?</p>
<p>hey! how are you? so i’m guessing you didn’t end up doing nhd this year? I have my state competition this weekend, so i’m sort of in panic/scrambling to finish mode right now. lol.</p>
<p>I’m good. No, I haven’t done NHD this year, largely because I couldn’t find a topic I was most interested in with the theme. This time however I am going to think of a topic much sooner. 
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<p>Good luck with states! I was hoping to possibly volunteer this year for our states competition, somehow help out over there, while at the same time, getting a feel of the atmosphere and how it will be like.</p>
<p>GASSSSSPPPPPPPPPPPPP it’s my favorite program, TASSSSSPPPPP</p>
<p>had to review that with y’all</p>
<p>So, to keep the thread alive…</p>
<p>What are your thoughts on getting into a session that you have very little interest in? My first was definately Cornell II, and my second was UT-Austin, but there’s a BIG gap between the two. What do you think will determine whether you get into the seminar you really want?</p>
<p>hm, i feel like they just pick a core group of kids they want for TASP, and then try to fit them into the seminars. perhaps TA focuses on getting a good ‘mix’ of kids in each seminar, rather than everyone into their first choice. </p>
<p>haha i have the same 1 and 2 choices as you, CLeighDrie. however, i have a suspicion that there will be disproportionate amts for each one: michigan and austin seem kind of unloved, while cornell I is really popular-looking.</p>
<p>Heh-- my first two choices were the same as both of yours, though there wasn’t such a big gap between the two preference-wise. Personally, about getting into one I’m not terribly interested in, I think I’d still be okay with that: it is still a TASP after all! It would be a lie to say I wouldn’t be a little disappointed probably, but that disappointment would be far outweighed by the joy of actually being accepted to any of them. I’m getting nervous about making it that far, let alone actually getting my preferred choices (I’d be completely content with three out of the five, and mostly happy with the other two).</p>
<p>I think you’re probably right, chariot. While it would be in their interests to ensure kids are very interested or indeed passionate about the seminars they attend, I get the feeling, too, that they’re more concerned with getting the right mix of personalities and ways of thinking.</p>
<p>My first choice is St. Louis (Civil Rights) followed by Michigan (Islam), but civil rights it out in front by far. i’d love love love to go to that one. Really, though, any of them would be fantastic. eeep. only a week until we hear…</p>
<p>So how many days left now? A week or so?</p>
<p>People are speculating May 2nd as the date we’ll hear on (next Tuesday). So if that’s the case we’ve got a week to go. Also, someone called, and the TASP people said that if you really need to you can call on Monday the 1st to find out your status.</p>
<p>So, anyone planning to call Monday?
I’m still up in the air. (I probably won’t, though)</p>
<p>heyy guys! i just found this thread! tasp looks so awesome and i’m def. gonna apply next year. good luck to all of you who got interviews!</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t think I’ll call. I will on the 2nd, however, check my e-mail before school, before first period, in between third and fourth period, twice during fifth period and all during eighth period, until I find out. ;-)</p>
<p>Of all my AP tests, I’m most worried about Statistics because I haven’t had it for a semester.</p>
<p>And I will be taking that test while my decesion sits unopened in my inbox…</p>
<p>Ugh. They should have decided earlier</p>
<p>I think this is perhaps the one time I’m happy that my school is small and poor enough not to offer APs. College finals don’t begin for a few weeks more after the TASP decision will be made, and thank god for that. I think the nerves of my dance recital next week and TASP will be quite enough!</p>
<p>In other, unrelated-ish general conversation, does anyone else do Envirothon at their school? I’m sort of rather doubting it, but perhaps someone does…</p>
<p>This is ridiculous. I am losing sleep over TASP. AT least that’s more time to study for APs + SAT IIs.</p>
<p>I might call Telluride on Monday after my AP Language exam becaus,e I really need to get started on applying to backup summer programs in case I don’t get in to TASP, before every other deadline passes!!!</p>
<p>Likewise-- that’s the only reason why I’m even a bit keen on calling Monday. I don’t want to seem rude, though. Do you think it’s a valid enough reason to call early?</p>
<p>kelsiface, in regards to your earlier post: some kids @ our school do envirothon…not me though, im not even sure what it is :)</p>
<p>ooh, and i think i’ll call after APlang too, monday. i kinda have a legit reason ( $ due for bandcamp which i will miss <em>if</em> i get in). </p>
<p>i dont think this anecdote matters, but : my friend applied to RSI two years back and when he called for his results - they wouldnt tell him even though decisions had been made and he was out of town, couldnt find out any other way.</p>
<p>hopefully our lovely tasp-people are much more chill with it …!</p>
<p>I think they will be-- they have been in past years, anyway, apparently. Nonetheless, I hate to be an inconvenience, you know?</p>
<p>Envirothon, by the way, is essentially a really good excuse to miss school and go outside wandering about a nature center all day getting sunburnt, all while one takes environmental science tests and gives an oral presentation about some specific problem scenario. I was wondering if that scenario changed state-to-state: this year, New York’s topic is Great Lakes conservation in the face of global warming, for example, but I wondered if that possibly could be the topic in, say, Montana. This forum has a fairly decent geographical spread, so I figured I’d ask. :)</p>