If I got rejected, does that mean I’m a failure?
Absolutely not! And I’m not trying to offer false solace; I’m offering an understanding of simple math. Single- and low double-digit acceptance rates are REAL. If you got rejected from a school with, say, a 30% acceptance rate, then to consider yourself a failure means you’d also have to consider 7 out of every 10 college bound applicants to that colleges failures, too. Likewise, if a school with a 10% acceptance rate dings you (and many rates have spiraled to less than HALF that since 2020), then you’d have to consider 9 out of every 10 failures. And that would […]
