<p>Well? lol.........</p>
<p>Well, in my school, well specifically my English class, our teacher basically wanted to exploit us for all we were worth, so she had a paper on the wall for us to list all of our acceptances, so granted you didn't have to write it down, but then it allowed you to brag without feeling boa****l, so the pressure got us, and yeah... though rejections were never really public unless it was a special case.</p>
<p>I think the best strategy for those people might be feigning complete ignorance combined with a question. </p>
<p>"How did your Harvard application go"?</p>
<p>"Harvard? I don't recall applying. Are you sure there is such a college"?</p>
<p>Sort of like when Paris Hilton when asked about whether she shopped at Walmart:</p>
<p>"Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?"</p>
<p>However for Ms Paris I believe it was a real question</p>
<p>If I get rejected, I'm probably going to break down crying every single time I tell somebody :(</p>
<p>Lol....just claim that you only applied to the ones that you got into...</p>
<p>ROFL CITATION X, I saw that episode of paris...so lame.</p>
<p>I think If I got rejected, I'd say "I havent received an answer yet". as simple as that. :o</p>
<p>You could just tell the truth, shrug your shoulders and say "Yeah, but I would be happy going anywhere on my list" or "I'm disappointed, but there are a lot of places I could still go and be happy"</p>
<p>Hey, rejection happens to everyone, we're humans...let's not forget that!</p>
<p>At our school they announce acceptances at morning meeting (basically an all-school mtg we have twice a week) so the whole school hears. News of rejection typically gets around in the way of gossiping whispers. Personally I don't feel like I would have a difficult time telling my closest friends that I was rejected (of course I hope it doesn't happen...) I'm sure that if I told two people, the whole school would know by the end of the day... just works like that :-/ Nothing I can really do about it.<br>
I do agree with bendrumfront though- it's natural to be disappointed but remember (and don't forget to remind those who you tell) that there are other schools on your list that you could be happy at as well.</p>
<p>At my school, we decided that everyone in my school applying to competitive colleges EA/ED (probably like 15 people) would participate in a nonverbal system:</p>
<p>If you got in, you must wear something ridiculous to school that day, like butterfly wings, or a goofy hat, or an extremely ugly shirt.</p>
<p>If you got rejected, you must wear black to school that day.</p>
<p>At my school everyone tapes their rejection letters to a wall in the student lounge, just tradition I guess</p>
<p>I like your system, JimmyEatWorld.</p>
<p>I didn't have any particular way of telling people. I just waited until I was asked if I got in.</p>
<p>If I don't get, I'm not going to school that monday.</p>
<p>itsallgood... thats a cute tradition. i like it</p>
<p>I'm a current senior so I wouldn't know the process of rejection firsthand. But my school has a tradition of the seniors gathering around a bonfire and throwing their rejection letters in. I hope that I'll have nothing to contribute to the fire.</p>
<p>I know two years ago there was this one class whose blackboard listed where every senior in that class was going. It was funny because one person listed "UCF/Duke" as his prospective school.</p>
<p>At my school no one hears about rejections unless you tell people, but there is a wall where the guidance counselor puts up the names of places that students have been admitted (no student names though)</p>
<p>at my school, public in alabama, not much happens
except that my English AP class will be horrible because it has the 15 or so students in the senior class</p>
<p>i remember last year that rumors just spread like wildfire, i mean everyone knew of the yale acceptance within the first 24 hours</p>
<p>Lol it's just Yale</p>