Even the most successful people have to deal with rejection from time to time. Best-selling author J.K. Rowling recently tweeted that she pinned her first rejection letter to her kitchen wall because ...

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 ...

Every aspiring author's biggest fear is having their work rejected by a publisher, but not even in the worst kind of nightmares could any writer imagine receiving this heartless rejection letter from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leadership Strategist Dan Pontefract covers leadership and culture. Like you perhaps, I have had my fair share of professional ...

One by one, high school students on Sunday giggled with their friends as they walked up to a ceremonially placed paper shredder and dropped in their college letters of rejection. What is normally a ...

The student thanked the college for its interest in rejecting them but said they'd see them on campus in the Fall! Receiving a rejection letter from your dream college can be an extremely unpleasant ...

Seniors, it is that time of the year. Excitement begins to build with every letter that comes in the mail, waiting in eager anticipation to hear from the universities that you applied to earlier in ...