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I was rejected by George Washington yesterday by website. They told me I should apply to their master's program in Organizational Sciences. No thank you!
Rejected from the Clinical programs at USC (last Thursday) and University of British Columbia (today), both via small envelopes in the mail. I SO knew USC wasn't going to happen, but I had high hopes for UBC. Oh well. Five schools still in hiatus. Ugh.
I received a rejection letter from UBC too, yesterday. Wasn't too surprised as I emailed my POI who already told me that I wouldn't be accepted.
Well, I don't know if it's a good thing or not! I have no rejections in the mail today. 😕 And I still have two schools that I haven't heard one word from since my application was submitted! What's up with that?!
So I've been saving all my rejection letters, which I thought was kind of weird, haha. Even though I haven't heard from 2 schools at all, I think it's safe to say I'm not going to grad school this time so it's just a record of a failed attempt. I was just wondering if anybody else was doing something strange like that, and hoped my weirdness might entertain someone.
I too have saved all of my rejection letters. I'm going to add all the ones from this year to my little pile of rejection letters from last year. I feel like, if I save all of these rejections, they will remind me of all the junk I'll have over come when I finally get in somewhere, even if I have to wait another year.
If anyone has yet to receive an acceptance or they're waiting for that golden ticket off the dreaded wait list, and they just received this letter, I feel for you. I really and truly do.
/rant
Oh wow... that seems a bit excessive. The letter rejection I got from UW wasn't nearly so... detailed? Rejections suck... and the fact that they weren't nearly as sympathetic as you'd hope... at least you didn't want to realistically attend the program anyway. 🙁
This is probably a blanket letter they sent to a large # of individuals, but I can easily see (as you can tell from my complaints) that this letter could definitely cause some confusion.
Paramour, you should keep that rude letter- One day when you are the next Bandura or Milgram you can frame it.
I like how you picked one guy who beat up dolls and another who made people shock each other.![]()
Yeahhhh...I got a somewhat offensive rejection letter from UW as well. Mine was less cutting than yours but still irritating. Mine said something along the lines of "Although your application materials indicated that you are qualified for graduate study in psychology, you were not as strong an applicant as others." Mercifully, they didn't go as into more detail. Ohhhh what a relief that I'm "qualified"
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If I hadn't gotten into a good program that little line would have made me feel pretty crappy. None of my other rejections were quite this harsh. Most said something like..."we're sorry but we had a very competitive applicant pool this year yada yada." A simple "rejected" from UW would have been quite enough thank you very much.
Oh well, this "not strong" applicant is going to another fantastic program so UW can kiss my ***. It feels great to be able to say that when opening rejections.
Paramour, you should keep that rude letter- One day when you are the next Bandura or Milgram you can frame it.
I'm not qualified and/or prepared, but I'm a good to excellent candidate. Sorry. Still can't get over that one.
still havent received 5 rejections, neither unoffical or official. what nice helpful people 😡
All in All.. I've realized that to do what I want to do eventually, I don't need a clinical degree and am actually pretty okay with getting all of these rejections. I really only need a Ph. D. to do one thing, and that is to teach.. so in essence, it can be from any non-clinical program. The reason I wanted clinical is b/c I'm very interested in assessment and diagnostic services but this was a secondary goal anyway....
Just thought I would post that sometimes this process, although unsuccessful in terms of getting into a school, sometimes is successful at making one really figure out what is most important to them!
So I have officially received rejections from:
Suffolk
UCONN
Stony Brook
Duke
UMASS Boston
I haven't heard a single word from Kent after interviewing there in February. Did they contact you to let you know that you're on the waitlist? For all I know, I've been rejected outright and am not even on it. It doesn't actually matter to me, since I'm not interested and have accepted another offer, but it seems like bad form to bring someone all the way out there and then not even bother to follow up. Oh well!![]()
I've received rejections from:
Ohio State
Georgia State
University of Memphis
Penn State-child track
I'm still waiting to hear from:
Virginia Tech
Vanderbilt
SUNY-Albany
I've heard Vanderbilt doesn't send out rejections (I also haven't heard from them) and I also haven't heard from Virginia Tech, so maybe they don't either.
I think that they're technically required to let us know. I could be wrong, though. Vandy is the one school I haven't heard from - maybe it's true that they just don't contact people?
I think I got a rejection in the mail today. It was actually an empty envelope from somewhere I'd applied. It was quite amusing...
I was rejected from the University of Victoria's clinical PhD program on Friday, via snail mail, or "par avion," since it came from Canada.
My POI is going on sabbatical...which I found out late in the game...but couldn't change and was hoping perhaps they'd take me anyway. My letter was mostly about how there was no one to supervise me, "at least at this time." It makes me wonder if they would have taken me if my POI were going to be there in the fall.
I was also rejected from UW, child clinical track. Super bummed. I didn't expect much attention from them, but knowing they were considering me was a big deal. I will be applying again in the fall.
I finally got a rejection from TAMU yesterday. Considering that other people on this board got their letters over a month ago, I was about ready to call the department and ask if they even processed my application. I'm not going to lie, a refund of the application fee would have been nice.
Anyway, this was another strange case of the school saying they didn't have any faculty members in the department who could supervise me in my research interests. This is a pretty lame excuse being that there are two professors there clearly working in my desired research program and I had been emailing back and forth with one who assured me they were taking students.
Like others have said before, I wish that universities that are set on giving a reason for rejection beyond "we had a lot of qualified applicants this year" would at least realize that claiming a research mismatch doesn't apply to everyone they rejected. 👎