Waiting to discover whether or not you’re going to be accepted into college is definitely on the short list for most anxiety inducing scenarios. Unfortunately for millions of people every year that ...

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 ...

Even the most successful people have to deal with rejection from time to time. Best-selling author J.K. Rowling recently tweeted that she pinned her first rejection letter to her kitchen wall because ...

Every aspiring author's biggest fear is having their work rejected by a publisher, but not even in the worst kind of nightmares could any writer imagine receiving this heartless rejection letter from ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Siobhan O’Dell, a 17-year-old applying to ...

Ideally, I would call each of you to explain what we found wanting in your cover letters and CV’s, but I suspect my university would never approve of that plan. Still, I want to let you know why we ...