My trip down rejection lane started with a swift rejection from my dream program... John Hopkins... *sigh* Followed by a rejection later from UMass which only hurt because it was a rejection not because I would have been all that excited to go to UMass.
A couple of acceptances... from good schools and great programs... I was starting to think I might be hot shit.
Such dreams of grandeur were destroyed by an email rejection from McGill, a university far below the other acceptances. Shock and dismay!
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PS: The person who contacted me about my application package at John Hopkins did not even know ANYTHING about the school I got my BA and MA from! Didn't even know that I basically studied for 9 years in Canada and therefore an English requirement of TOEFL is beyond ridiculous! After that, could I be expected to be shocked by rejection from John Hopkins? No way.
