<p>no they ask on the application if there is a program you absolutely wouldn’t want to go to. last year for tass there was one program that i absolutely would not have gone to, it was something on african americans and the sports industry.
that being said i had cornell I as my first choice. : )</p>
<p>panicpower, do you know if you can change your choice order/your absolute no at the interview? i was a cornell ii junkie and then realized i wasn’t cut out to be a social scientist.</p>
<p>I said I had a tied choice between Cornell II and UMich in my essay, but at my interview, I told them I realized the UMich TASP would suit me MUCH better (lots recent of environmental research/activities). they said they thought i woudl’ve liked that one better, too (since we talked a lot about the food industry and the environment and whether global warming exists and the morals behind medical care and such)</p>
<p>Considering the issues we talked about it seems like Cornell 2 or nothing for me, plus it’s a seminar that would benefit from internationals more than any other. Whether I’m such a person is their job to decide… I hope I am though^^</p>
<p>When you had your interview, was it more of a discussion/conversation, or your interviewer asking you questions and then pointing out other sides and then asking you to respond?</p>
<p>I think I did well overall, but I’m starting to get worried that it was more me talking than actual interaction…</p>
<p>But w.e. my interviewer took like 7 pages of notes on what I said. (I’m in the Washington D.C. Area)</p>
<p>i think karajanhra and I had teh same inteviewers. the girl was stephanie and the guy was michael, right? my interview was similar to yours too. it was basically essay-based. they were really nice too.</p>
<p>maybe i’m wrong about this, but it seems like the only ppl who would fully appreciate Cornell I are ppl of West Indian/Caribbean background >.></p>
<p>yes philo you can, often at the end of your interview they ask if there is anything you want to say or change, if they don’t feel free to bring it up.</p>
<p>and red cat (did i get that right) I think you may be right, I saw Cornell I and I knew that was it for me. but then again most CCers seem to want to deepen their knowledge more than broaden it; so Cornell II appeals to them more.</p>
<p>I’m surprised more people weren’t interested in UT Austin…that’s such a cool issue because you can trace the history back to The Birth of a Nation, but even today African-Americans are portrayed a very specific way in every movie or advertisement. Idk we’ve been studying the farce of the “liberal” media in one of my classes and I just think it’s really interesting.</p>
<p>Rouge, we did, we did! The guy was nerdy-in-the-cute-way and the girl was British! But (yes, I am beginning a sentence with “but”, because that’s how I do) do you really think they want (or even be ABLE to) to round up an entire group of people who are “deserving by basis of their birth” to learn about it for a summer? Really: so only island people can understand island people? That’s a lot like saying that Africans, Hispanics, Australians and Native Americans can’t “appreciate” the French revolution. I’ll bet that at least 60% of the people who go there won’t have it as their first choice, especially since we have all these Cornell II people.</p>
<p>I don’t know about “deserving by basis of their birth” but quite few people said they straight up didn’t care for the seminar, asked not to put in it, or had it as their last choice.</p>
<p>True, but I’m sure that people who aren’t West Indian/Caribbean aren’t unable to appreciate the seminar just because of their background. </p>
<p>2 weeks and counting, TASPers-to-be.</p>
<p>to that i fully agree.
finally two week marker.</p>
<p>If you actually read the description about Cornell I its not all about Caribbean culture, but culture in general. The culture of the Caribbean merely serves as an example in order to examine how differing ethnic roots can be compined to create a multi-tiered, complex cultural amalgam.</p>
<p>I suppose. But at the same time, I know a few people who were repelled by the seminar simply because they couldn’t readily connect to it. The French Revolution is a different story; anyone who is familiar with fighting for rights (that could be any ethnic group or even teens since they’re always rebelling) can relate to it. Caribbean culture is just so…specific and maybe intimidating to those that know nothng about it. </p>
<p>it’s funny hat I’m of Caribbean descent and Cornell I was like, 3rd on my list. The interviewers totally jumped on me for that u.u. w00t to 2 weeks more of unbearable agony.</p>
<p>How difficult is it to get into TASP. Is the acceptance rate low? And what are the opportunities for international students?</p>
<p>Very difficult, yes, and the same as for anybody else.</p>
<p>9% acceptance =/</p>
<p>I just had a very heated discussion about I Am Legend over the phone. I was explaining the REAL meaning of the title to a friend, and we wound up shouting at each other about whether or not the female zombie was cured at the end. That movie p***ed me off SO MUCH because it had the potential to be a GREAT movie. It should have been and it would have been if the writers/directors hadn’t lost all control of the movie and forgotten all about the plotline and all the meanings they’d been leading up to in the first 2 acts. I am a zombie-movie connoiseur, so this blatant dropping-of-all-plot in what was otherwise an eerie, dark masterpiece deeply offended me. </p>
<p>TASP’s making me avoid my work and get into heated debates about zombie movies. CURSE YOU, YOU LOVELY PROGRAM - well, I do these things anyway, but CURSE YOUUUUUU!
…And accept me!</p>
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Dang</p>
<p>10 Chars, Dangit</p>