In San Francisco (natch), one high school psychology class has found a way to deal with its students' avalanche of college rejection letters— "rejection letter therapy."
According to the San Francisco Examiner,
Students bring their rejection letters to class. The most rejected student gets a prize, but the real competition is for the “worst letter” colleges. Harvard is running head and shoulders above the rest in the “most obsequious while maintaining utter insincerity” category. Harvard lets students know how “very sorry” they are to reject them. They then bestow three wishes, none of which they grant. First, Harvard wishes that they were writing with a different decision. Second, they wish that it was possible to admit the rejectee. Finally, they hope the student they deny will accept their best wishes.
Other awards include the "least number of words before you know you are rejected" category, and the "most emphatic rejection" category....
Is this the beginning of a backlash against the admissions insanity?
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