what to do w/rejection letters??

tank you · Nov 17, 2005

post up in room?
bonfire?
toilet paper?
make an "im a loser" collage??

jebus · Nov 17, 2005

I say crumple them up into a person shape and burn them in effigy.
You see that, Charlene! Up yours!

veenut · Nov 17, 2005

send em back, wrigley field style

Jon Davis · Nov 17, 2005

Write a rejection letter to them instead.

QofQuimica · Nov 17, 2005

Heh heh, I'm not that creative or ambitious. I just filed mine with the rest of my med school correspondence.

wildcatbio06 · Nov 17, 2005

Personally I am waiting until I am the world's greatest surgeon and some news network does a biography style segment on me and I will show them all of the ******ed schools that rejected me. That'll show them.

jebus · Nov 17, 2005

QofQuimica said:
Heh heh, I'm not that creative or ambitious. I just filed mine with the rest of my med school correspondence.

Q, you get rejection letters? With your scores? Ok, you have no grades, but what is the world coming to?

BerkeleyMD · Nov 17, 2005

Keep them'...

That way when you get some sweet a$$ acceptances you at least have an address to send them the good news. Plus, I'd even go as far as including their POS rejection with a copy of acceptance letters.

That will show em'!

QofQuimica · Nov 17, 2005

desiredusername said:
Q, you get rejection letters? With your scores? Ok, you have no grades, but what is the world coming to?

Yes. Imagine that: there are some people (and med schools) in this world that don't like me.

johno83 · Nov 17, 2005

I have 2 so far. They are displayed proudly in my living room. Sometimes its good to get your ego deflated.

unfrozencaveman · Nov 17, 2005

johno83 said:
I have 2 so far. They are displayed proudly in my living room. Sometimes its good to get your ego deflated.

Mine is posted in my office, and I've been getting a pretty good kick out of it. I actually haven't read past the first line yet, but do I need to when the first line is:

"I am writing to share what I believe will be disappointing news."

?

mercaptovizadeh · Nov 17, 2005

Death of a thousand papercuts?

No, I've no imagination, I just file them together with my withdrawals files. And a separate pile for pending, one for interviews coming up, and one for acceptances.

mercaptovizadeh · Nov 17, 2005

unfrozencaveman said:
Mine is posted in my office, and I've been getting a pretty good kick out of it. I actually haven't read past the first line yet, but do I need to when the first line is:

"I am writing to share what I believe will be disappointing news."

?

Wait-- is that Dartmouth?

USArmyDoc · Nov 17, 2005

I am going to save them and show my kids how hard it is to become a physician. I also want them to realize that although the majority might not find you "good" enough, there might be one out there to believe in you and that is all you need.

penguinophile · Nov 17, 2005

mine are on my fridge...right next to my MCAT score sheet

jbrice1639 · Nov 17, 2005

send them back with a counter offer?

i definitely like the wrigley field answer

FictionalGirl · Nov 17, 2005

I'm into archery... sooo.... my rejection letters have been pasted onto a bullseye. My aim has gotten so much better! I've had WAY TOO MUCH PRACTICE

jhrugger · Nov 17, 2005

unfrozencaveman said:
"I am writing to share what I believe will be disappointing news."

?

yeah i got a kick out of that first line too. the rest of the letter was so consoling, as if i had suffered the greatest heartbreak. funny thing is i had withdrawn several weeks prior

and yeah it was Dart, unless other schools have ripped off their "we are so amazing that it must be horrific for you to learn you have not been offered a place at our amazing institution" letter format.

rhystheprince · Nov 17, 2005

My friends and I burn them while dancing around them ritualistically...neighbors and the fire department are not amused.

another "occasion" is coming up; RSVP at [email protected]

note: BYOLetters

RayhanS1282 · Nov 17, 2005

I'm gonna show them to girls and beg for sympathy sex.

unfrozencaveman · Nov 17, 2005

mercaptovizadeh said:
Wait-- is that Dartmouth?

Yeah. I might keep it handy to send Andrew Welch a postcard from Miami next February.

unfrozencaveman · Nov 17, 2005

jhrugger said:
yeah i got a kick out of that first line too. the rest of the letter was so consoling, as if i had suffered the greatest heartbreak. funny thing is i had withdrawn several weeks prior and yeah it was Dart, unless other schools have ripped off their "we are so amazing that it must be horrific for you to learn you have not been offered a place at our amazing institution" letter format.

I know, right? It should have also suggested I may want to be seated before continuing.

Messerschmitts · Nov 17, 2005

RayhanS1282 said:
I'm gonna show them to girls and beg for sympathy sex.

That's the best use for them I've heard yet!

I've got a fat stack of them from last cycle in my drawer.

OddNath · Nov 17, 2005

At Rice, there was a Rejection letter party at the end of the year-- we traded 'em in for beer and pizza.

And yeah, the "we know you MUST be soo disappointed" letters were the best to bring to the party. Especially as I had already decided on a school and wanted another slice of pizza

Law2Doc · Nov 17, 2005

jtank said:
post up in room?
bonfire?
toilet paper?
make an "im a loser" collage??

Make paper airplanes, throw them, and create your own school ranking service based on which goes furthest. I'm pretty sure that how US News got started.

jammin06 · Nov 17, 2005

OddNath said:
At Rice, there was a Rejection letter party at the end of the year-- we traded 'em in for beer and pizza.

And yeah, the "we know you MUST be soo disappointed" letters were the best to bring to the party. Especially as I had already decided on a school and wanted another slice of pizza

haha, I WAS JUST about to post this!

PBMaxx · Nov 17, 2005

I'm gonna frame all of them and hang them up around my MD diploma.

Someone wrote a really good "Rejection of a Rejection Letter Letter" and posted it a while ago-- I'll try to find it, but with all the server changes and misadventures it might be gone.

Clocks · Nov 17, 2005

unfrozencaveman said:
Mine is posted in my office, and I've been getting a pretty good kick out of it. I actually haven't read past the first line yet, but do I need to when the first line is:

"I am writing to share what I believe will be disappointing news."

?

LOL, that Dartmouth rejection was terrible

angietron3000 · Nov 17, 2005

unfrozencaveman said:
I know, right? It should have also suggested I may want to be seated before continuing.

Dear Applicant,

Please have a seat...

QofQuimica · Nov 17, 2005

angietron3000 said:
Dear Applicant,

Please have a seat...

....but not one of ours.

No seat for you!

Turkeyman · Nov 17, 2005

poop on them

Nikki2002 · Nov 17, 2005

make a little tiny fire out of them and roast marshmallows.

C.P. Jones · Nov 17, 2005

Messerschmitts said:
That's the best use for them I've heard yet! I've got a fat stack of them from last cycle in my drawer.

yep, i've also got a nice pile from last year...12 in all, and already 1 this year from the same school

one can send them back saying "you can't reject me! i withdraw my app!"
i also like the idea of sending them back w/ an acceptance letter copy, but i seem to be missing one of those

i am planning on keeping them until i do get an acceptance...i used them for reference this year to see which schools rejected me the fastest (and therefore i did not apply to them again).....seems to have worked so far for a better round of apps

DrHuang · Nov 17, 2005

jtank said:
post up in room?
bonfire?
toilet paper?
make an "im a loser" collage??

i used to post up my rejection letters next to a paper that said "They think you're a loser, work harder you slacker and prove them wrong" as a motivation.

Jaider · Nov 17, 2005

QofQuimica said:
....but not one of ours.

No seat for you!

angietron3000 · Nov 18, 2005

unfrozencaveman said:
Mine is posted in my office, and I've been getting a pretty good kick out of it. I actually haven't read past the first line yet, but do I need to when the first line is:

"I am writing to share what I believe will be disappointing news."

?

it's weird.. i made a joke about this one earlier today and came home to find out that I got it too! good thing I was sitting down when I opened it!

Faust · Nov 18, 2005

jtank said:
post up in room?
bonfire?
toilet paper?
make an "im a loser" collage??

Take them to the post office and tell them that the person does not live there anymore. If you know the folks at the post office tell them to stamp a big-- RETURN TO SENDER, ADDRESSEE NO LONGER LIVES HERE-- on them!

I am sure the schools will get a kick out of it and say Hmmm what is going on here???

Jon Davis · Nov 18, 2005

USArmyDoc said:
I am going to save them and show my kids how hard it is to become a physician. I also want them to realize that although the majority might not find you "good" enough, there might be one out there to believe in you and that is all you need.

I like that.

Loco Loki · Nov 18, 2005

I burned all of mine in a bonfire with friends. Some of my friends also brought their own stuff; letters from ex's, their own rejections, bad grades, ect. A real fun time was had by all. One of my comrades also drew faces of agony on each letter, just to amplify that effect.

SeventhSon · Nov 18, 2005

jtank said:
post up in room?
bonfire?
toilet paper?
make an "im a loser" collage??

back when i was doing undergrad i saved them so that if i got into grad school anywhere where i was rejected as an undergrad I could send them my rejection letter in place of my SIR :laugh:

not going to end up doing that, i've matured a little. would be funny though, i still have 'em.

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