How did/will you deal with rejection(s)???

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The waiting is really killing and now it's even worse not to receive an acceptance. Is there any way to make it easier??? Shopping, eating out, ....or just crying loud????
 
Take a rejection as a reason to strive to do better and better yourself and try again.
 
^^ exactly, use it as motivation to re-apply with better grades and a better PCAT. If you can tough it out you'll succeed.
 
I don't know. That usually doesn't happen to me. My capacity gauge is pretty good.

I think I would cry and my heart would sink. I'd probably listen to feel-good music after that for a few days.

If I were you, I would definitely improve my application for the next round. You don't want to give them the same application twice. If you couldn't sell your "package" the first time, then they probably won't buy the same "package" next time.
 
I'd listen to Linkin Park while cutting myself and crying.
 
I think that after you interview for the most part you know what to expect...you know if you rocked the interview or you tanked it...

I think if you really have no idea you best bet is to go on like you didnt interview, prepare for your next interview, study etc...I think that the worst thing that you can do is let your life depend on whether you got in or not.... dont put everything on hold just to hear the decision...if you do end up getting in great...if not you just waisted a lot of valuable time that you could have been studying or preparing for the next interview.
 
Tell yourself.

Up to the point of applying, you've done everything you can and whatever happens will happen.

What's the point of worrying about something you no longer have any control over?!

take care
 
I believe that things work out as they are meant to. If you don't get in this year, improve your application. Re-take some classes, get some more pharmacy experience, etc. Most of the pharmacists i know got rejected the first time. (They are actually better pharmacists than the ones that got accepted the first time). Don't give up!
 
Sparda29 said:
I don't have that much of a problem with rejection. I write it off as having a bad game plan and change the game plan. However, it is not that simple to my parents.
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I agree, it was nearly impossible explaining to my Russian family why I got rejected. They almost disowned me and still remind me every chance they get that I was rejected this year. As hard and as devastating it was to be rejected it was even harder when people constantly throw it in your face. I still have my UCSF rejection letter, whenever I get too proud of myself for accomplishing something, I look at it and realize I'm still not good enough. That instantly brings me back to reality.

I think being rejected is a life changing experience. I have lost all my confidence this application cycle. I am a completely different person. I used to think I'd be able to get into a decent school now I just want to get into any school.
 
I've had a lot of rejections before now. My first major rejection was being denied a visa to come study in the United States. It was 4 years before I applied again. That really hurt. I didn't show it, but I was angry and bitter, and I blamed God.

The next ones came as I was applying to summer undergraduate research programs across the country in my sophomore year. I applied to 7, and got 7 rejection letters. The next year, I applied to 22, and got 19 rejections.

This year, I applied to medical school, pharmacy school, and graduate school. Overkill, but I would have been happy with all three options. I've got 11 medical school rejections and 2 graduate school rejections.

Me, I've learned to deal with it and move on. And to have lots of backup plans.
 
Well, I would like to distract myself while waiting. When that didn't quite work, I actually took a short vacation because I was sick of stalking my post man. Yeah...but I agree with the others there’s always the next cycle. You can always do something with the time given to you like working or doing something meaningful. Like my backup plan was to work and to go on a short adventurous vacation. Don't feel bad!
🙂
 
medicalcpa said:
This year, I applied to medical school, pharmacy school, and graduate school. Overkill, but I would have been happy with all three options. I've got 11 medical school rejections and 2 graduate school rejections.
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Hey, that's kind of crazy. Did you get the same people to write you recommendation letters or did you use different professors or something? Just wondering how you would explain to people that you are applying for three different types of programs.

As for me, I've been waiting for three months to hear something back from my interview. I know I'm getting the letter this week and it will either be rejection or the waitlist...so I guess I've already kind of dealt with the idea that I am being rejected since I have had to wait so long. I don't really think I'll do anything crazy once I actually see the letter, but I guess I'll find out this week.
 
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I'll be the first serious poster in this thread. I found that the best way of dealing with rejection letters is to try to focus on and convince yourself of reasons why you didn't want to go to a particular school. Such as their accreditation status, the city/region the school is in, tuition costs ...etc!

this really helps 🙂
 
medicalcpa said:
I've had a lot of rejections before now. My first major rejection was being denied a visa to come study in the United States. It was 4 years before I applied again. That really hurt. I didn't show it, but I was angry and bitter, and I blamed God.

The next ones came as I was applying to summer undergraduate research programs across the country in my sophomore year. I applied to 7, and got 7 rejection letters. The next year, I applied to 22, and got 19 rejections.

This year, I applied to medical school, pharmacy school, and graduate school. Overkill, but I would have been happy with all three options. I've got 11 medical school rejections and 2 graduate school rejections.

Me, I've learned to deal with it and move on. And to have lots of backup plans.
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I admire you. bad *** man. Oh yea, where u from?
 
mustang sally said:
Hey, that's kind of crazy. Did you get the same people to write you recommendation letters or did you use different professors or something? Just wondering how you would explain to people that you are applying for three different types of programs.
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I had 4 professors write my recommendations for me. One was my PI over the summer, and he wrote med school and grad school recommendations. The other three wrote recommendations for med, grad, and pharmacy school. It took a lot of planning and constant reminding, but they did it. 😍 I didn't know of the convenience of Interfolio.

I admire you. bad *** man. Oh yea, where u from?
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I'm from Nigeria.
 
cheburashka said:
I agree, it was nearly impossible explaining to my Russian family why I got rejected. They almost disowned me and still remind me every chance they get that I was rejected this year. As hard and as devastating it was to be rejected it was even harder when people constantly throw it in your face. I still have my UCSF rejection letter, whenever I get too proud of myself for accomplishing something, I look at it and realize I'm still not good enough. That instantly brings me back to reality.

I think being rejected is a life changing experience. I have lost all my confidence this application cycle. I am a completely different person. I used to think I'd be able to get into a decent school now I just want to get into any school.
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Exactly. Because then everything I do to have fun is a reason to them of why I got rejected.

My reasons for explaining rejection. There were better applicants, PharmCAS screwed up my Fall 2007 grades, was working too much on the weekends.

My parents reasons for explaining the rejection. I went playing paintball 3 times that semester, I went to 10 Mets games last year and 3 this year, I play video games, I watch House MD too much.

Okay, I do watch House MD too much, I've watched every episode like at least 3 times. It's gotten to the point that I can remember the exact disease that each patient had if you showed me the patient.

However, House MD is the reason I aced Physiology.
 
As far as rejection letters go, you just gotta detach yourself from it. That letter isn't a comprehensive evaluation of your overall self worth or how successful in life you'll be.

Be realistic: Its one school's opinion on how well your profile compares to their other graduates. It isn't an everlasting death sentence; you can always improve your presentation.

(Easier said than done, but it is true.)
 
Drive the car real fast anywhere, turn up the music to the max, and cry until you can't anymore
 
This is how I see it panning out, and I see this as a real possibility. I'm under no illusions, or delusions (however you want to see it) that I'll just breeze right in.

*Open mail, find rejection letter
*Immediately burst out crying
*Get drunk and eat lots of nachos
*Take a few good long naps
*Cry again
*Realize it's ok and life will go on
*Continue on in school
*Complete B.A. in either Biology, Chemistry or Biochemistry (not decided yet)
*Retake PCAT if necessary
*Get a grip and reapply next year

That's my plan. No jokes. Seems like a good one to me. 👍:laugh:
 
Its ok not to get in the first time around **** happens, just learn from your mistakes. Getting rejected from grad school isn't the worst thing in the world...just remember that tomorrow you will wake up and it will be a new day. There are far worst things in the world...such as the millions (maybe even billions)of people who have to worry about what they are gonna eat the moment they wake up.
 
Aren't you Mr. Sensitive? FIY, t's normal for girls to cry and, since I'm a girl, I'm entitled to cry without appearing like a sissy. Let's see you deal with job, school, and relationship rejections, we'll see how you react🙄
 
being a man, i dont know what it feels like to "cry"....i occasionally leak when i watch "Love Actually"

keepingthehope said:
Aren't you Mr. Sensitive? FIY, t's normal for girls to cry and, since I'm a girl, I'm entitled to cry without appearing like a sissy. Let's see you deal with job, school, and relationship rejections, we'll see how you react🙄
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typharm said:
The waiting is really killing and now it's even worse not to receive an acceptance. Is there any way to make it easier??? Shopping, eating out, ....or just crying loud????
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i'd let myself finish a tub of icecream a day for a week. though i might look like 😱 afterwards ..hahaha
 
keepingthehope said:
Aren't you Mr. Sensitive? FIY, t's normal for girls to cry and, since I'm a girl, I'm entitled to cry without appearing like a sissy. Let's see you deal with job, school, and relationship rejections, we'll see how you react🙄
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let's see, Job (check), school (check), numerous pharmacy school rejections(check), relationship (check), crying....nope!

as future healthcare professionals we have to treat all kinds of situations as professionals, rejections are part of life and without them, frankly, life would be boring! if we got everything we wanted, every time, life would not be worth living!

cheer up hon, driving really fast while crying isn't safe anyway, and we need all the females we can get in pharmacy school 😉
 
A bottle of Mad Dog 20/20.
 
Honestly....
binge drink for a week, get over it, move forward.
 
AbsoluteEthanol said:
let's see, Job (check), school (check), numerous pharmacy school rejections(check), relationship (check), crying....nope!

as future healthcare professionals we have to treat all kinds of situations as professionals, rejections are part of life and without them, frankly, life would be boring! if we got everything we wanted, every time, life would not be worth living!

cheer up hon, driving really fast while crying isn't safe anyway, and we need all the females we can get in pharmacy school 😉
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haha.....smooth.:meanie:...there are too many girls in pharmacy school.....:laugh:
 
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cheburashka said:
I agree, it was nearly impossible explaining to my Russian family why I got rejected. They almost disowned me and still remind me every chance they get that I was rejected this year. As hard and as devastating it was to be rejected it was even harder when people constantly throw it in your face. I still have my UCSF rejection letter, whenever I get too proud of myself for accomplishing something, I look at it and realize I'm still not good enough. That instantly brings me back to reality.

I think being rejected is a life changing experience. I have lost all my confidence this application cycle. I am a completely different person. I used to think I'd be able to get into a decent school now I just want to get into any school.
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I know how you feel. Chinese family, and worse, my identical twin got in this year and I didn't. I'm going to be rejected around mid-aug. I'm still on the "waiting list" but this late in, I'm pretty much rejected.

*sigh
 
I applied to 13 schools and 1 grad school.... My plan was either I get into Pharmacy school now and it'll be awesome or I get into grad school for neuroscience and then go for a MD...

Anyway in the end of it all. I ended up receiving 10 rejection letters and then 3 interviews.

I mean 10 rejection letters, not one 1 but 10 wonderful rejection letters!!! I even went to one school to deliver my stuff so that they receive my information on time... Yeah it was MCPS- Boston...Not fun ride and really depressing as well for my parents and myself... As when I went there to deliver everything. They told me all the seats have been received and that they will not take my supplemental application in. Although they were asking me to send in my supplemental application. 🙁

My first interview at Temple, which was their last interview day. I thought the interview went really great. Then a week later just before my research presentation I received the dreaded rejection email from Temple. I was really sad after that occurred and I did unusually bad on research presentation because of that. I can't believe I let it get to me. 🙁

The second interview was at LECOM - Erie. They really liked me as I did some research in my interviewers' field of study and I thought went really well as well... But I was placed on the alternative list.

Now it just couple weeks before the end of April. I was losing hope and in the last ditch effort I applied to my school's graduate program for Neuroscience track with a thesis.... I had basically had lost all hope at that time. I was thinking I was going to come back again to the same school for grad school and do 2 more years and then try to take the MCATs and doing the whole Med School thing just like most South Asians. (I suck at standardized tests and did not want to take them again.)

I think it was the 30th of April and I was studying and I received a call from LECOM - Bradenton, stating that I was taken off the hold list and they wanted to find out that if I could make it for an on-site interview on May 8th. I honestly thought I did ok on the interview, but I found them really strict in their criteria for their applicants.
So I thought I never have the chance of being accepted there and I was placed on the alternative list. So I was re-affirmed that I would not get in...

So I thought I would be dissecting flies and looking at their testes and ovaries for another 2 more years... Yeah that depressing and funny at the same time... Although its enjoyable to some bits...


Alas I was taken off the alternative list at LECOM - Bradenton sometime in July, which was crazy thinking back to it. So do not give up hopes you guys. You will still have a chance of being accepted... I know some who were taken off the alternative list the first day of orientation. 🙂
 
Zapages said:
I applied to 13 schools and 1 grad school.... My plan was either I get into Pharmacy school now and it'll be awesome or I get into grad school for neuroscience and then go for a MD...

Anyway in the end of it all. I ended up receiving 10 rejection letters and then 3 interviews.

I mean 10 rejection letters, not one 1 but 10 wonderful rejection letters!!! I even went to one school to deliver my stuff so that they receive my information on time... Yeah it was MCPS- Boston...Not fun ride and really depressing as well for my parents and myself... As when I went there to deliver everything. They told me all the seats have been received and that they will not take my supplemental application in. Although they were asking me to send in my supplemental application. 🙁

My first interview at Temple, which was their last interview day. I thought the interview went really great. Then a week later just before my research presentation I received the dreaded rejection email from Temple. I was really sad after that occurred and I did unusually bad on research presentation because of that. I can't believe I let it get to me. 🙁

The second interview was at LECOM - Erie. They really liked me as I did some research in my interviewers' field of study and I thought went really well as well... But I was placed on the alternative list.

Now it just couple weeks before the end of April. I was losing hope and in the last ditch effort I applied to my school's graduate program for Neuroscience track with a thesis.... I had basically had lost all hope at that time. I was thinking I was going to come back again to the same school for grad school and do 2 more years and then try to take the MCATs and doing the whole Med School thing just like most South Asians. (I suck at standardized tests and did not want to take them again.)

I think it was the 30th of April and I was studying and I received a call from LECOM - Bradenton, stating that I was taken off the hold list and they wanted to find out that if I could make it for an on-site interview on May 8th. I honestly thought I did ok on the interview, but I found them really strict in their criteria for their applicants.
So I thought I never have the chance of being accepted there and I was placed on the alternative list. So I was re-affirmed that I would not get in...

So I thought I would be dissecting flies and looking at their testes and ovaries for another 2 more years... Yeah that depressing and funny at the same time... Although its enjoyable to some bits...


Alas I was taken off the alternative list at LECOM - Bradenton sometime in July, which was crazy thinking back to it. So do not give up hopes you guys. You will still have a chance of being accepted... I know some who were taken off the alternative list the first day of orientation. 🙂
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a truly inspiring story......🙄

btw what was your gpa when u applied??
 
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