<p>@bookends: There are still some people who have interviews over the course of the next week, but I think they should all be done by mid-April.</p>
<p>Mine is April 10th.</p>
<p>april 10 is my PROM nom nom!!! woohoo i’m so excited! prom stress is kind of getting my mind off tasp</p>
<p>My interview is tomorrow! Woot.</p>
<p>I had my interview today. MUCH more relaxed than I thought it was going to be…I don’t know what I’m going to do until April 27 :/</p>
<p>I had mine about a week or 2 ago. Its not that bad when you are there. You stubble upon words and try to look for words to express the complicated point. It is tough but all you can do is be calm and say what you want to say. Afterward however you start wishing that you wouldve said something different and start regretting what you didnt say. Right now i feel as if my interview was great but missing SOOOOO much. All we can do is wait though so might as well wait in peace.</p>
<p>“You stubble upon words and try to look for words to express the complicated point. It is tough but all you can do is be calm and say what you want to say. Afterward however you start wishing that you wouldve said something different and start regretting what you didnt say.”</p>
<p>Dude, yeah. For serious. haha.</p>
<p>My interview went well overall, I’d say. Looking back on it, I think I contradicted myself at some points. But overall it was a pretty good experience. My interviewers were really chill and I felt comfortable talking to them.</p>
<p>So April 27th is official?</p>
<p>Is it? My interviewers (and the letter) mentioned early May.</p>
<p>but then again we were supposed get interview notifications in mid-March when it was really early March, so mebe they just like overestimating?</p>
<p>How much emphasis do you guys think they place on the extra stuff we just sent in?</p>
<p>Would it be like 80% essays, 10% interview, 5% LOR, and 5% transcript?</p>
<p>April 27th - 16 days away!!!
:)</p>
<p>I think it’s more like 70% essays, 20% interview, 5% LOR and 5% transcript.
But I could be completely wrong. </p>
<p>16 days, but I’m sure it’ll seem like an eternity! I seriously need to distract myself.</p>
<p>My completely non-official estimate, based solely on personal hunches, applicable ONLY to finalists: 10% essay, 5% LOR, 5% transcript, 50% interview, 30% diversity (including but not limited to race/ethnicity, gender, geography, family income, et al).</p>
<p>Think about it: essays have already been used as a weeding tool, and the interview serves to both judge the veracity of essay viewpoints and to judge social/personality fit. The diversity % represents the part of the process that is completely out of your control, just as in college admissions–how many atheists do they have? How many conservatives? How many Californians? How many low-income? How many Hispanics? You are competing with the people like you, not with the entire pool of finalists. And by no means is this a quota-based system–for instance, my TASP of 18 students included two from middle-of-nowhere PA. But it definitely has an effect on your chances, IMHO.</p>
<p>Nothing to do but wait.
That, and try to guess at how the committee judges applicants. Haha, for all we know, they have a specialized percentage system for every single person, assigned arbitrarily.
When is the committee meeting, again? (sorry if somebody already said this) </p>
<p>Delaluna, I hear you, I also need a giant distraction to stop me from thinking about this endlessly 
Nothing is working!</p>
<p>AP tests! </p>
<p>Haha.</p>
<p>Well i just got rejected from my backup. Shouldve chosen a better backup…
All my eggs go to TASP now. Hoping for the best so i can do something different this summer. Hows everyone else doing as far as summer programs go?</p>
<p>^ I got into my state’s governor’s school, but I had to reject it because they needed my final decision by the end of last month…I think the chance of getting into TASP outweighs governor’s school.</p>
<p>I also got into Lott Leadership Institute (don’t know if any of you know what that is) and I’m waiting to hear back on my last backup. Thankfully, I’ll know my TASP decision before these deadlines.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to anything else; I suppose I could’ve if I had invested the effort, but from searches most of them were costly (And this can be subjective, but to me, let’s just say any “decent or cheap” amount to someone else may be quite undesirable for me, because it’s a summer program and not on our family’s priority list in terms of money management), or I wasn’t really interested. Or maybe I’m a bit lazy…a combination of them.</p>
<p>So all my eggs are in this too, essentially if it doesn’t work out I’ll have a good time with my friends with no regrets since I actually did what I could in this app. process. GL to everyone else.</p>
<p>I just got rejected from Mites. So TAsp is my favorite, but then it always has been.</p>
<p>It was actually funny. I was on the bus, going home from school praying for a rejection because MITES requires one to notify them you’re going on april 20th before TaSp decisions come out.
Here’s hoping I’ll have a good birthday. april 27th is when Tasp might/might not come out. april 29th is my birthday.</p>
<p>I did apply to SAMs. but i don’t really want to go there. I didn’t really want to go to MITES either. I was afraid of the math.</p>
<p>@nil desperandum That’s a great way to look at it. </p>
<p>I know exactly what you mean bout MITES. I got in and I’m terrified. It’s kind of an anticlimactic end to the whole process. Between the two programs, I definitely prefer TASP. Sigh.</p>