Articles - Rejections and Wait Lists

What do you do if the college decisions you received were not what you had hoped and you ended up with a rejection or being placed on the wait list?  Being rejected can be difficult to deal with and students often feel like they were "not good enough" which is NOT true.  Being placed on the wait list has it's own challenges as I talked about recently on the wait list post, but it is the limbo land - a rejection, but with hope which can make it very hard because when you are still holding out hope it is hard to move forward to something else.  If you are still struggling with a college rejection or trying to decide how to handle being placed on a wait list, these articles are meant for you...

Dealing with rejections:

I got rejected from my first choice school, now what

3 Steps to take if you are rejected from your dream college

5 pieces of real talk about getting rejected

Dear parents: here’s how to handle a college rejection

Managing the dreaded college rejection letter

3 things to do when you get a college rejection letter

Dealing with rejection from dream colleges

5 ways to rebound if rejected by your top choice school

College rejection a distant fear as life lessons take hold

Getting past a college rejection

You got rejected from your dream school – now what

Wait List Articles:

3 college wait list mistakes to avoid

The wait list: colleges’ safety valve, students’ purgatory

Wait listed by your dream college?  Here are 6 steps to take now.

How to get off a college’s wait list

Steps to take if you want to stay on the wait list

The wait list – is it worth it?

What to do if you’re wait listed from your dream college

Wait list fundamentals

Top colleges put thousands in wait list limbo