<p>A local high school does it, but mine doesn’t. I hope we do it next year when I’m a senior! Then again, at my uber-competitive high school, nobody would want to admit that they were rejected from anywhere…</p>
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<p>Also known as the ‘sour grapes’ board…</p>
<p>I mean, that name is a bit much.</p>
<p>^^I think the name’s all in good fun. It’s not like she’s actually “so upset she wants to diss the school” but its just a way to make her feel better. I think its cute.</p>
<p>We don’t have a wall, but one of my friends is having a year-end bonfire and all the rejectees are invited to burn their letters in the bonfire. Woo!</p>
<p>I think this is a really good idea- too bad hardly anyone at my school applies to colleges that are even slightly difficult to get accepted to. They only apply to schools they know they’ll get into.</p>
<p>We don’t have a rejection wall at the school I teach at but it has been considered to put up a congratulations list of students accepted into some of the harder to get into schools because too many students who are not getting accepted are lying about getting accepted and making the ones who don’t get accepted and are honest about it feel bad. You know, the kid with a 3.0 GPA mediocre SAT score bragging about getting into such and such university even though he or she really didn’t get in. </p>
<p>Personally I think a rejection wall is a great idea. Maybe by having everyone post their rejections students will not take their own rejections so personal and understand that in many cases it is a numbers game.</p>
<p>We do not have one of these, and we don’t really need to. A vast majority of students at my school apply only to schools they know they’ll get into (i.e. state flagship) or they go to community college before transferring to a state university. Only ~25% of our class would have any rejection letters to post, I would think.</p>
<p>Our class is just too damn proud - last year, when I was a junior, people would say nasty things about rejectees in the senior class, it is a great idea though, might not work everywhere</p>
<p>At one of my kids’ schools, there was a wall dedicated to rejection letters. It normalized being a tippy-top student and not getting in everywhere, esp. because 1/3 of the class applies to MIT, and you know there’s no way they’ll all get in… It’s a good reality check to see that last year’s Intel finalist didn’t get into XXX or that what’s-her-name with the 2400 didn’t get into the HPYSM she really wanted.</p>
<p>Most students applied to the flagship plus the big names, on the theory that their parents were willing to spend $$$ for the usual suspects, but otherwise the kids could take the merit money at the flagship.</p>
<p>At my school only ~35 or so kids per year (out of 500) aim for the top schools, so a rejection wall wouldn’t be as class relevant as it would at an accomplished private school, or a top-notch public school.</p>
<p>Still sounds like a fun idea, though!</p>
<p>There’s a wall of rejection one room over from my AP Physics room at the high school I attend. It’s nice to be able to laugh about rejections with a bunch of your classmates.</p>
<p>The teachers at my school organize an “I Accept!” wall every year, and the students put a “…'Cuz we didn’t want to go there anyway!” wall next to it.</p>
<p>I put my CalTech rejection letter on my fridge? But not others. Just CalTech. I liked how it was prettiest. Nice and orange. I can see why people would wanna turn it into a collage/mural thing</p>
<p>my school has a college brag wall, where people can write their name and then a list of the schools they got accepted to. i like that idea better because it focuses on the positive more than the negative</p>
<p>^^ At my school, if you give the guidance counselor’s receptionist your acceptance letter, they put up the schools you got into on a brag wall with the school colors and “symbol”, next to your school portrait. </p>
<p>I saw at another high school they had a similar one but instead they had blank paper pennants (ya know the flags? I think that’s what they’re called…) and the seniors would color them and write the name of the school they got into! It looked like a lot of fun!</p>
<p>I actually like the sound of this. I go to a well-performing public school, but it’s not cutthroat or anything. A good number apply to the elite/upper tier schools, so I think this would be a good thing for us to start. Or maybe just an acceptance wall somewhere.</p>
<p>50% of my school’s graduating class regularly goes to community college, and 40% apply to schools with some of the highest acceptance rates…
published in school newspaper haha
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<p>My school is the other school in the town mentioned in the article (the title of this thread actually immediately made me think of the school in the article- they call it the “Wall of Shame”). We don’t do it at my school, but I sometimes think it might be nice… I know that when Ivy decisions came out, the good news was VERY visible on facebook, to the point where those who were rejected from a majority of the Ivies began to feel like they were the only one who “failed.” A wall might remind people how brutal it was this year and that they’re not alone…</p>
<p>Students at my college do a variation of this for grad school/jobs. Outside the seniors’ doors you’ll see three types of letters: upside-down for rejected, sideways for waitlisted, right-side up for accepted. Once they decide on a school/job, all the letters get taken down except the chosen one. It’s nice to be able to see where the seniors are going, and to know how they fair in admissions/job hunt.</p>
<p>People at my school only end up going to state schools (UNLV & UH are popular) or community colleges then transferring to said state schools. It’s too small anyway, I graduated in a class of 4 haha…
Anyway, I think I would be a little too dejected to put that out there for everyone to see. I’m such a private person, I didn’t even tell anyone that I got rejected except my parents.</p>