<p>I think this would be amazing at my school, given the fact that people seem to take rejection very personally. I’ve heard so many justifications of rejections. Maybe everyone would start to feel better if we had a way of reminding people that everyone-everyone!-goes through rejection.</p>
<p>everyone at my school goes to james madison and towson university, and the smart ones all apply to upenn and get rejected and go to u maryland</p>
<p>so i dont think people would have a rejection wall here</p>
<p>We don’t have a rejection wall at my school either. I hadn’t heard of this before reading this thread, but I suppose that sort of thing could be supportive.</p>
<p>In my HS we have a big board where people write down where they’re applying, and then we cross out and circle our choices as decisions comes out.</p>
<p>we have a “Wall of shame” for rejections and a “wall of pain” for waitlists. individual teachers often have a big poster in their classrooms where kids write where they got in. i personally think that it’s nice to see how many other kids got rejected from the same schools, it definitely lessens the pain of getting rejected from a top school. it makes me feel better to see all the letters together- it makes me feel like i’m not alone in the rejection world. (also, my friends and i had a rejection party, which was a blast and helped us move past the disappointment).</p>
<p>In my math class, there’s a board and my friend and I started putting up our acceptance letters. When I mentioned about having a “rejection wall,” everyone thought I was being so cruel…lol didn’t work out for my school.</p>
<p>I’m a junior this year, and my friends and I will probably do next year what we did with AP Euro last year after the AP test: have a massive bonfire at the beach, burn 'em all, then roast marshmallows and make s’mores before getting drunk around the burned ashes of the work that our blood, sweat, and tears went into. A bunch of other kids and parents saw the albums on facebook (though not the drinking, lol) and said that it looked like a blast! Actually, thinking about that now is making me think that getting rejections won’t be all the bad next year. Just more kindle for the flame, eh? ;P</p>
<p>P.S. Unfortunately, a Wall of Rejection wouldn’t work at my school, because there are soooo many sneaky, underhanded kids who only brag about acceptances and refuse to talk about their rejections. (Though the majority of those same kids cheated their way through high school to get into the Ivies. Don’t even get me started on the number of kids I know who literally cheated their way through 90% of high school-- i.e. finding out test answers and hiding them in calculators, literally not leaving teachers alone until they changed their grades to an A+ – and either got into an Ivy, or probably will next year with my grade. Ugh, despicable.)</p>
<p>I think it’s a great idea. I go to a small private school that’s competitive enough to send kids to top LACs and universities but not so cutthroat we’d ridicule each other for rejections. However, I don’t know if I would be able to put up a rejection letter. I commend the kids at my school who share their rejections on facebook, but I’m not brave enough for that haha. I think I would only put one up if I’d gotten in somewhere else great and had an “I don’t really care” attitude. We do have a board on which a list of seniors and where they’re going is posted, and at all school meetings our college counselors list early acceptances and then, at the end of the year, where all the seniors are going.</p>
<p>my high school posted up the schools of where we got accepted. it was sometimes a sad thing to read</p>
<p>At my HS about half of the student body applies for the Ivies and tier 1 schools, and most of them are qualified. Obviously, some get into great schools, but so many get rejected. I put up my rejection letters from Dartmouth and UMich, and felt better there than putting up my acceptances.</p>
<p>Oh my gosh, I’ve heard about that. It’s going crazy at my cousin’s school. Some of her friends applied to Ivy League schools for a scholarship in Cheer and totally got rejected. They got soo mad that they actually aren’t going to college at all… They said they would “take a break.” I mean, it does sound bad, but their parents totally agree. In fact, in support of them, their parents are bringing them on a tour around Europe to expand their horizons. Soo lucky!! The shopping around there is like, amazing.</p>
<p>My school totally has this. Ours is called “the wall of shame”.</p>