Rejection stings. And a rejection from a college your teen loved and hoped to attend stings badly. College counselors, ...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — College acceptance letters. They can be life-changing... for good or bad. Today, we focus on the high school seniors who didn't get the news they hoped for. The sting of rejection.

I received my first college rejection letter while standing in the TSA line at Logan Airport. It was March of my senior year, and after months of crafting the perfect Common App essay and laboring ...

A high schooler wrote a rejection letter to her rejection letter from Duke. — -- Spring is here along with the angst of the college admissions process for high school seniors everywhere. One ...

Jennifer Martin -- and her delicate teenage ego -- received a wake-up call on her cell phone. The call came from her mother, telling her that after being left in limbo for months on the school's ...

"I've learned that rejection is totally redirection," Nicole Laeno tells PEOPLE after learning she will not be attending her "dream school" in the fall Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE ...

College admissions decisions are pushing kids off the deep end. Of the 1.2 million kids who applied to college this year, many of them won’t get into their dream school, which will be a huge gut-punch ...

ATLANTA — When Therrell High School senior Tyler Superville opened his rejection letter from Florida A&M University, the disappointment was immediate. Superville, who had long dreamed of attending the ...