The student thanked the college for its interest in rejecting them but said they'd see them on campus in the Fall! Receiving a rejection letter from your dream college can be an extremely unpleasant ...

Rejection letters will never provide happiness, but sometimes, if written with kindness, they can be helpful. At least one applicant to Duke’s graduate cognitive neuroscience admitting program felt ...

Some high school seniors in California are taking a bit of the sting out of college rejection letters by posting them. Rejection walls at Palo Alto and Gunn High Schools are filled with variations on: ...

One by one, high school students on Sunday giggled with their friends as they walked up to a ceremonially placed paper shredder and dropped in their college letters of rejection. What is normally a ...

I wrote you awhile back regarding a ManagementSpeak-filled rejection letter I’d recently received. You challenged me to come up with one that was better than the form “we had many qualified candidates ...

Shot down. Denied. Dismissed. Flipped the metaphorical bird. Admirable perhaps even commendable but not group X material. The terminology is colorful the envelopes are not. They are small, white and ...