<p>Well I did not receive the happy email so I don’t think I will have the opportunity to have close contacts in life with the people who advanced to the second round.</p>
<p>Yeah. I would also really appreciate if someone could PM me an essay of theirs… just to know how awesome the essays that beat mine were. 
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<p>Ditto here (was not accepted) :(</p>
<p>If anyone thats a finalist wouldn’t mind, I would love a PM of some essays. At least that way, this can be a learning process…</p>
<p>Cagedbird93
Vince011
Delaluna
Invoyable
apollinaire
epigramimpelled
apidae
marcusianl
PaleDot
nil desperandum
ThisCircusWheel
Abyssion
Waggish
Jmbhockey5
tolalvtweety
ahmerman2006
glassesarechic
zzxjoanw3</p>
<p>18, not bad. : )</p>
<p>Sorry guys, I would send an essay…but I honestly know that they are no better than what any of you submitted. It all depends on the whims of the readers.</p>
<p>You forgot Parallelular, Vince. :P</p>
<p>I would really love to read the essays that you think show your personality the best. I think it is the personalities showed through the essays that matter the most. Maybe they just don’t think I am ‘their’ type. But if it is the case, then I probably won’t feel that bad because of the rejection since there is no way that I am willing to mold myself into the type of ‘TASP’ personality that they are looking for.</p>
<p>Congratulations to the interviewees, and my condolences to the other applicants. I’d be happy to share my essays with you guys after this round (bit paranoid about that online networking thing) provided you’re still interested, although I agree that it probably came down to the fancy of individual readers. (Also, from what I hear, concepts and ideas that appealed to the reviewer tends to matter more than writing quality, which isn’t the case with many other essays).</p>
<p>Can any of the previous TASPers fill us in on how their interview went? I’ve never really done this before, so I’m excited to have a thought-provoking discussion, but a bit nervous too. Dress code?</p>
<p>Once again I think it’s simply a matter of taste and honestly, I would be deceiving myself if I’d said that my essays were superior in any way to anyone else’s on here. I honestly just went straightforward with my essays, took major rolls with the dice in topic choice/writing things such as humor (that may have come off as insensitive), profanity (was necessary in an essay), and didn’t bother with any input or feedback; I wrote, edited, and submitted. That’s how I worked…didn’t care if I was “fitting their needs” or anything, and if it was a risk, so be it. If the format, content, etc was nontraditional, then so be it. So I was obviously surprised with the interview notification.</p>
<p>And I really don’t think I have anything to say until May…half of us will be in your boat then, so it’s nothing final. I was happy when I got the e-mail, but after a while I realized it’s not final, and so it’s just meh lol. In May though, I’d be willing to share one or two of my essays with the rejected people. </p>
<p>So far I’ve shown two of them to none other than Wombatsoup (free cookies!), and that was after the deadline to ensure that it was solely done in my input, and that since he is a past TASP’er there shouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>Sigh. It’s been a long journey. </p>
<p>After reading the whole entirety of the 2007 TASP thread, I made an oath to never post in the 2010 thread. But I still managed to get completely invested and finally made an account to celebrate my rejection :/</p>
<p>I analyzed Cat’s Cradle as well, but I felt that I didn’t have a compelling personal conflict. 
I’m really not sure where I went wrong though, so I’m also curious to see some interviewees’ essays. I’d love a PM when you guys feel comfortable sharing (after May I suppose?).</p>
<p>I’m planning to apply next year and I too would be grateful if people who got into the interview round would be willing to let me read their essays (whether it is now or later on)…</p>
<p>interview! :)</p>
<p>Oh, and to the people who want to see essays - I’d be cool with sharing mine after interviews and decisions are out (in May). All the people who read my essays said they were really good, so I’m fairly comfortable with sharing them… I guess ^^</p>
<p>I got an interview! Yayayayay. Unfortunately i’m very sick right now (for unrelated reasons) but while I was puking my brains out last night thinking about tasp kind of made me feel better! Haha.
To those who didn’t make it, don’t feel bad! There are still a million things out there you can do for the summer and also these finalists aren’t in for sure.
And for my fellow interviewees (!) I really don’t think you should share your essays at this point. </p>
<p>For recommendation letters, do you think a club advisor for a club I started is ok? She doesn’t know how I write but knows me as a person really well. Or do u think a humanities teacher is better? Thanks.</p>
<p>I am sorry LL Nunn I am sorry Ms ellen I will send more money to ann arvor so these kids would be fed well.</p>
<p>@wombatsoup: Thanks for the suggestion, I just sent them an e-mail. Hopefully they’ll get back to me soon :).</p>
<p>Has anyone received their rejection yet?</p>
<p>Yeah,to all the people who want to read an essay-yeah,we obviously can send one now due to the networking codes. But after the May acceptance or rejection-I might share my essay. I think the key <em>might</em> (I don’t know) have been to avoid sounding too intellectual and be yourself-- In all my essays i was just using my own voice–I gave up the pretense of brilliance</p>
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There is no “type” that Telluride seeks out–merely passionate intellectuals. I think you’re neglecting the “diversity” aspect that each TASP strives to construct; please know that the reason you didn’t receive an interview is not because you didn’t fit some Telluridian mold or equation. </p>
<p>Also, reading someone else’s essays will not achieve anything; you’d do much better to learn from this application experience and improve on it for the next. I’d encourage all finalists to share their essays only with people they know well, i.e. not anyone on CC.</p>
<p>As for dress code for the interview, I think it depends on the location. I wore jeans and my favorite shirt since it was at a chill coffee shop, but if it’s at a lawyer’s office or the like, you should kick it up a notch or two on the dressy scale.</p>
<p>And the club adviser rec should be fine; it doesn’t have to be a humanities teacher.</p>
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<p>I am definitely not neglecting the “diversity”; it was actually one of the main reasons that prompted me to apply. But I do think that everything does have a limit. I’ve PMed a few people and to some degrees we do share similar personalities. The fact that we were all rejected may suggest that we just don’t really fit into the big umbrella (the very big umbrella under which “diversity” can still flourish). But again it may be just sampling errors. </p>
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<p>I now agree with you, embeezy. </p>
<p>I enjoyed the tasplication process, I used my voice and I really don’t regret anything. </p>
<p>Best of luck to those who made it to the second round. :)</p>
<p>thank you. best o luck 2 you too!</p>