Word: rejectionism
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“I walked down the stairs one morning and walked into my parents’ bedroom and saw my mother and father together in bed. And for some reason, at that moment I said, ‘I am not going to be like that man.â?...
Pretty much the first thing that happened to me at Harvard was getting rejected. Like most freshmen, I applied for freshman seminars. Three professors interviewed me for a combined ten minutes, and I wrote agonizingly self-conscious answers in the blank spaces of the questionnaire. Then, on the allotted day...
Last year, I cowrote a cover story for this magazine on depression and mental illness at Harvard. Staff members from Room 13, the oldest and most prominent peer counseling group on campus, said that the most common reason students seek them is insecurity. “It’s...
Rejection seems to be the school’s key operating precept. For my class, Harvard accepted 2,055 out of 18,160 applicants. It was the most selective yield yet, and in the last two years it’s only gotten harder to get in. At that rarefied...
It’s funny how rejection works. Application and tryout-based opportunities seem extremely pivotal to your life only when you find out that you can’t have them. There are lots of Harvard students who have been completely happy without a Marshall Scholarship, and who will...