I registered just to cheer you guys up!
Here's my story....
Rejection 1 - Stupid Yale. I wouldn't go to your program anyway
Rejection 2 - Wait a second, wasn't Duke my backup school? [web search] oh I guess it's pretty competitive. No wonder I got rejected
Rejection 3 - Stanford? Better not tell my girlfriend... (she lives in Palo Alto
Rejection 4 - Carnegie Mellon's Public Policy program rejected me? WTF?
Rejection 5 - Princeton Woodrow Wilson - WHYYY!?!!?
Rejection 6 -Harvard. Haawvvaad? Oh Geeze.
Rejection 7 - Brown!? F***.
Rejection 8 - Johns Hopkins - damn, I'm in trouble.
until....
Acceptance 1 - University of Chicago, with full funding.
It happens people. It happened to me!
Good luck!