An 89-year-old rejection letter surfaced online this week that is breathtakingly brutal in how it totally dismantles any potential for the recipient to believe in his own worth. On Sunday, popular ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A job applicant has sparked widespread debate online after sharing a rejection letter that claimed the hiring decision was made using a game of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors.' The letter, which was posted on ...

Guest post by Aaron Krasner, M.D. When you talk to high school juniors, many of them have college on the brain. And that’s great because college offers the world to our children by offering knowledge, ...