<p>yo, you guys are lacking creativity...I was accepted at Vanderbilt 1/2 tuition and was waitlisted at Colgate, Bucknell (wierd right?), Notre Dame and rejected at Bowdoin..and i gave each college its corresponding due</p>
<p>Colgate-used it was a napkin after brushing my teeth</p>
<p>Bucknell-left it in my most expensive pair of Abercrombie pants and washed it, so it would go out of this world as preppy as it came in</p>
<p>Notre Dame-I sacrificed it to Jesus...now i know u cant really sacrifice anything to Jesus being a Catholic and all, and considering it sacreligious to nail it to a cross, i figured burning it after comming home from church the equivelent of sacrificing it to Jesus</p>
<p>and Bowdoin...with its reputation in the marijuana department...i took that letter and rolled a fat blunt...</p>
<p>now that is creativity...and id like to see anyone top it</p>
<p>I was rejected at two Ivies, although I can't say I was too crushed by it (wasn't planning on attending even if I did). Still I had basically figured that I would get into Penn at least with a 1500+, and was somewhat unnerved by the fact that I didnt. I'm keeping my rejection letters as motivators. Never let this happen to me again (or if I make it big, send it back to them saying "too bad suckers!").</p>
<p>LedZepp, I love how you matched the method of disposal with the college... that's hilarious.</p>
<p>Sabnetwork, I totally wish my school had a wall of rejection! I remember hearing somewhere on CC how, after ED decisions came out, the NHS members that were accepted hosted a dinner where they served all the members that were deferred or rejected. Things like that would make being rejected sting much less, I think, since there would be a school-wide attitude that advocated brushing it off. My school is similar to yours, Peals, in how rejections are treated. They're taken all seriously and become this huge drama. If I have to deal with one more person being like, "But you're not DEVESTATED that Princeton didn't accept you?" I think I will get upset over it... Just because I can't deal with the incessant pestering and the shock than then ensues when Im like, Nothing I can do about it, so Im not going to let it bother me. Just laugh at it, move on, roll the letter into a fat blunt (lol, Zepp) if that's how you roll...</p>
<p>i burned them- lit them up with a match and held each up while crying-- Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Penn, Dartmouth, Duke & Cornell.</p>
<p>The only school I made was Wisconsin. (and got waitlisted at wustl).</p>
<p>When my parents were at Middlebury, everyone would post their grad school rejections on their doors... one guy didn't get into any of his 12 or so schools and his door was plastered... poor fellow.</p>
<p>Having a wall of rejection at my high school would have made things so much easier... and it also takes away the shame of having to tell people face to face.</p>
<p>I personally applied ED and got in, so I didn't have the opportunity to feed it to my dog (who actually eats paper, and really did eat my brothers homework once!).</p>
<p>Rejected: HYPS, Duke
Accepted: Umich, Wellesley, NYU Stern, Smith</p>
<p>I'm definitely saving mine, and after becoming successful, throw it back in their face. Sort of like Bill Gates, except he DID get accepted at Harvard, but Harvard is proud to have him as a student even though he dropped out. </p>
<p>Maybe years down the road, they will say, "oh... that girl, she considered us important enough to apply to. we were so unfortunate to not have accepted her. she would've made our campus a much more enlightening place."</p>
<p>i havent thought of anything creative yet, mine are simply on the bulletin board in my room. Like most of you i was planning on using those letters from Amherst Dartmouth and Carnegie Mellon as motivation. But so far they havent really served their purpose.</p>
<p>My kids' school has a "Wall of Shame" where students have placed their rejections. I think it's a great form of stress relief.and takes away the shame.</p>
<p>"I'm definitely saving mine, and after becoming successful, throw it back in their face"</p>
<p>I dont mean to burst your bubble but im sure those schools have enough great students that have made money and donated to not care about you. I mean I feel bad you got rejected but thats just the reality of it.</p>
<p>I burned my letter when i got my rejection from tufts ed. even though it was a reach, i was still really enthusiastic about it, and I simply never wanted to see that letter again. i've never had so much fun or been so happy when i burned that trash</p>
<p>2bad4u: ha i was being sarcastic. if i found the absolute cure the cancer... or AIDS or something, maybe ill hold out a litte tiny bit if my patient was the current dean of harvard. its not always about money, you know. im sure they dont care/expect everybody to donate money...</p>