Receiving a rejection letter from your dream college can be an extremely unpleasant experience. Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do but move on and apply again for the following semester. But ...

No one wants to feel unwanted. It is hard to put time and effort into a law school application and keep your hopes up for months, only to receive a rejection. Nevertheless, every applicant who applies ...

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 ...

A scholarly rite of passage is learning to accept the frequency of rejection in academic life. Alas, many of us fret about what to do (and not do) after being turned down by a journal. Seasoned ...

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 ...

Seniors, it is that time of the year. Excitement begins to build with every letter that comes in the mail, waiting in eager anticipation to hear from the universities that you applied to earlier in ...