Rejection letters will never provide happiness, but sometimes, if written with kindness, they can be helpful. At least one applicant to Duke’s graduate cognitive neuroscience admitting program felt ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Siobhan O’Dell, a 17-year-old applying to ...

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 ...

Colleges across the country have now sent out their acceptance and rejection letters. Every year at this time I am struck by the meanings these letters have for high school seniors and their parents.