Dear silverlining1,
We regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission to Your Dream Medical School. An unprecedented number of extraordinary applicants applied this year, and we would like to give you an idea of how you pale in comparison to them so that you can better understand your shortcomings.
--One applicant was abandoned by his parents and raised by wolves until he was four. After a kind couple rescued him and taught him the ways of humans, he became very interested in animal physiology and won the National Science Fair when he was 8 by discovering a method to extract stem cells from chimpanzees and use them to grow a kidney, suitable for transplantation into a human. Meanwhile, he also began to train professionally as a salsa dancer, figure skater, and pole vaulter, all of which he has excelled in; for example, he recently won the gold medal in the Junior Olympics for figure skating and has set the national record for pole vault. He has maintained a 5.0 grade point average throughout his education and is currently assisting his professors in developing class curricula while continuing his sophisticated transplantation research.
--Another applicant thought she wanted to be an interior designer until she developed a malignant brain tumor at age 15. As the tumor metastasized to her breast, knee, lung, pancreas, and liver, she found support in her family and was amazed at the kindness and persistence of her doctors. Now in remission for 2 years, she has established an AIDS clinic in Africa, made Nobel Prize-worthy advances in cancer research, written and starred in an award-winning documentary about life as a cancer patient, and started a program she decorates hospital rooms of terminally ill patients to make them feel more comfortable.
As you can clearly see, the caliber of the admitted applicants is simply astounding, and your dedication to tutoring young children and volunteering at a free community clinic are simply not enough. We know you've spent many hours studying, taking exams, writing essays, organizing events, teaching classes, conversing with hospital patients, and trying to be a happy human being, but again, we are sorry to say that you did not meet our expectations.
We wish you all the best in the future. We would like to leave you with one parting bit of advice: if you wish to succeed in your upcoming endeavors, we recommend that you find out about all the extraordinary people around you, do everything they have done and more, and do it better and more quickly.
Sincerely,
YDMS