Word: rejectionism
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He said the rejection might impact Harvard's decision on whether to join.
But my urge for home is bigger than just my current effort to get a tuba player to toss his tapas and miss the flight. I've had my own little cycle of tolerance and rejection with the Northeast since I first came here from Texas four years ago. As...
As dean of admissions at Cornell University, Don Saleh will have his name at the bottom of 21,000 letters this year, only 6,000 of which will arrive in fat, happy envelopes. But as the father of an 18-year-old applicant to three colleges, Saleh himself is praying...
Admissions professionals, guidance counselors and child psychologists I spoke with were in agreement on what parents should do when their child receives a skinny envelope: be there but back off, way off. Guard your own reactions because your child will be watching you for cues. When your kid is wrestling...
Rejection from a first-choice school is an education in the beauty of "Plan B." Embrace it. Celebrate the good judgment of the school that wants your child. Congratulate your kid on being wise enough to apply to that school, and plan to make a spring visit to campus. Bill...