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 ...

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 ...

When you send in your beloved short story to a fiction magazine and get a rejection letter back, try not to take it personally. Because, as Beth Wodzinski at Shimmer Magazine reveals, it was probably ...