What will you do once you get rejected?

etondad
Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:46:25 +0000

Thank you classicgirll !

Swimfreak001, if --i write, if-- that were to occur, i know that the desire will be to crawl into a hole and pray that everyone forgets you exist for a while-- but please don’t do that. Your worth isn’t contingent upon the quick decision of a group of overworked men and women. Don’t make it hostage to them.

Yes, it will hurt–maybe even feel humiliating–esp if that #%&*%$# kid in your class did get in – but don’t give the ad coms that power over you–and if you act humiliated, it will be because you did give them the power. The late Boston Globe columnist David Nyhan wrote a wonderful piece that the paper reprints the day after the admissions letters are sent out. He puts it so much better than I can. Please read it, and take it to heart.

[The college rejection letter - The Boston Globe](http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/10/the_college_rejection_letter/)