<p>I am amazed by this behemoth of a thread (and website even)! The pure dedication to TASP is a phenomenon that, until the discovery of this “CC” thing, has been unknown to me. When I recieved this inconspicuous brochure in the mail from some program of which I had never heard, I had no idea that this program (religion?) had such a following. This thread is so interesting, however, that it has (unfortunately) taken away time from my browsing of LOLcats on icanhascheezburger.com… Regardless of my admissions decision, this whole process has been very refreshing for me.</p>
<p>I live in Potomac, MD. Its a suburb of DC. </p>
<p>Lmao, nickname! Pssh, make up something and stick wit’ it!</p>
<p>But w.e. I’m not looking forward to the next month: AP Chem, French Lang, World History, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Spanish Lang, English Lang PLUS SATs in May and then my heart being broken by TASP!</p>
<p>Well, your heart’s going to be put on trial before May; we can call for our decisions on April 28th, and I’m guessing acceptances go out either then or the 29th.</p>
<p>09910745, I think we should call you…
Xavier.
because I’ve always wanted to know somebody named Xavier. how awesome is that-- a single consonant gets its own syllable. you’d think it’d be like. Ksavier or Shavier but no. it’s like. Eksavier. that’s one sexy name.</p>
<p>They send out acceptances via e-mail. Rejections come a week or so later, because they hate rejectees and want them to suffer. I don’t know about wait-list notification. Anyway, you can find out for sure by calling the office after the 28th. </p>
<p>Xavier’s not sexy to me because the gay elf on Drawn Together was Xavier, but I agree that generally it’s sexy. Like TASP.</p>
<p>if everyone is awake, would anyone be interested in doing an AIM chatroom? It seems kinda pointless to keep talking and talking and having to check every few minutes.</p>
<p>Just took a diagnostic for psych without learning anything: got a 4 (aka the lowest possible score to get a 4). Ahem. I will be over THERE studying now. ; ) Must learn those development stages!! o_0!</p>
<p>You post scared the **** out of me, to say the least. I thought you meant they ALREADY sent out acceptances. I was frantically thinking, WHY DIDN’T I GET ONE???</p>
<p>…but phew!</p>
<p>How’s the wait for everyone else? I’ve been counting the days, but studying for AP stuff and SAT stuff has kinda diverted my attention, which is good, I guess.</p>
<p>Sorry to reply so late panicpower, but to answer your question</p>
<p>“Also how does selectivity relate to excitement? I’m honestly wondering.” comment 7147 </p>
<p>That is seriously why I posted my question of what is so exciting about TASP because all I hear is people on here saying that it is so selective (in such an excited way), so I was just wonder if it was just the idea of selectivity that excited you bunch about getting into the program this year. It just seems so to me … however there are a few who truely seem want to gain something, so that is why I asked what is there to truely gain seeing as how the website does not lead one to believing their is anything …exciting going on(IMO). </p>
<p>ooo ok I see. Well I feel you on the website, it is a bit cold, but they have to be professional right? Anyway I dont know about most of the other kids but how selective TASP is does not excite me. It is my experience from last year that makes me want to go as well as the fact that Cornell I was like calling to me. I am going to end up a horribly poor history major. lol.</p>
<p>@ panicpower, from the first paragraph of one of my essays:</p>
<p>“Like anyone interested in the humanities, I face constant challenges, often from complete strangers, about the viability and relevance of my study. From these kind souls I learn about both my future address (a back-alley Dumpster filled with fellow humanists; perhaps a little cramped, but intellectually quite stimulating) and the enormity of wasting one’s intellect on the study of history or literature.”</p>
<p>don’t worry, humanists all end up poor together. but at least they get to argue with each other, which should make them (us?) happy enough ;-)</p>
<p>something completely different: my interview was today and lasted almost two hours. i was told 40 minutes. overtime much?</p>
<p>Shoo-in much? If you can debate with former TASPers for 2 hours, I’d bet my 5 bucks on ya. </p>
<p>Or your interviewers spontaneously developed severe speech problems, severe five-second-memory syndrome, severe when-I-was-a-young-lad syndrome, or all three.</p>
<p>not really the range of interview times is up to like an hour and a half but there are interviews that are shorter or longer. and it is nice to know i wont be lonely. i wish i could have talked with TASPers for that long. Oh the waiting though.</p>
<p>On another note, I have this ominous feeling that I am forgetting something significant though.</p>
<p>we actually only got to the substance of one of my essays. he picked up on one line in the #5 essay (which seminar…) and we talked about that alone for about an hour. i was talking in the essay about book iv of the aeneid and suggested that i could use vergil’s narrative of ancient “colonizations” of africa (by dido literally, by aeneas figuratively, and by their hypothetical son) to evaluate modern colonizations in the texas seminar. my interviewer happened to be a classicist (in fact he was in arizona for a conference) and apparently really wanted to talk about vergil. so we did. at length.</p>
<p>that, which was basically a tangent, took up most of the time. we spent about forty minutes on the #2 essay, in which i explained why having corporations control art is a bad bad bad idea for everybody. then the other fifteen minutes or so of it was like four questions i asked about telluride and tasp itself. he did start going on at that point but otherwise it was mostly me talking. my throat afterwards was like sandpaper.</p>
<p>and @ mshen: yes! i hover my mouse over its name and ask, “to im ellen baer or not to im ellen baer…”</p>