The Rejection

So you’ve just received your Oxbridge rejection letter and are feeling pretty down about it, what do you do?

Take that letter, take care not to crease or tear it, look at it in its utmost perfection. Consider each and every emotion which is running through your veins. Now lay that letter down and piss on it. At least that’s what I did. Everyone has their own way of dealing with it. A great friend of mine tore and binned his and then forgot about the whole affair. Another friend of mine, took the letter which her father (out of anger) had repeatedly stamped on, ironed out each individual crease, framed it and remained bitter at Oxford ever since. 

 

To those who can accept the fact that the application process is a competitive one, that they may not have quite made the cut, that they may have had bad luck with their interviews or tests and who are able to move on, I have the utmost respect for you. The ability to deal with setbacks is a great quality, one worthy of possession.

To those who are angry, bitter and personally disappointed that they failed to achieve that which they tried so hard for, I say this. Remember that every year, top notch candidates are rejected and that every year retards flock in to take their place. Whilst I was being at interviewed at Oxford, a fellow Physicist, whose knowledge was so extensive, his ability to tackle problems so thorough, that I felt ashamed to be his competitor, got rejected. Whilst a candidate so poorly informed and incompetent that they felt the need to copy the personal statement off a previous applicant, was given an offer at their first choice college. Both were clear-cut cases, where the admissions office just got it plain wrong. Let’s not forget that the man who in his mid twenties wrote 3 legendary and distinct papers, each of which was worthy of a Nobel prize, the man who later went on to revolutionize the concepts of Space and Time, was rejected twice by ETH Zurich. Have you ever heard of anyone from ETH? Didn’t think so, another classik example where the admissions cocked up royally, Albert Einstein came back to be more successful than any student that had ever attended ETH, there’s nothing to say you can’t do the same.