<p>Good for you, jmom. I love it when things turn out in a way that makes everybody happy.</p>
<p>Glad to see everything turned out all right! </p>
<p>Just to make you feel better, my S who had a 2300 and 4.0 didn’t do so well in the ivies either - turned down at all 4 of the ones he applied to. You are definitely not alone.</p>
<p>Re rejections, always listen to Groucho: “I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.”</p>
<p>The mean spirited letter from the safety school brings the mind the great Japanese novelist Kobe Abe, best known for Woman of the Dunes was a below par medical student, and they told him they didn’t think he would never make it as a doctor. He said it was ok because he was doing to be a writer. “In that case we’ll give you the MD on the condition you never practice medicine.” Very Japanese. Everyone saves face.</p>
<p>College applicants have nothing on writers who may have to live through a rejection every day. Gone With The Wind was rejected 138 times. Emily Dickinson, who published only a handful of poems in her lifetime, got this letter, “Your poems are quite as remarkable for defects as for beauties and are generally devoid of true poetical qualities.”</p>
<p>College rejection is just as subjective, and happens only once in a lifetime.</p>