Sometimes crappy life moments can be funny. Especially if they have to be or you’ll risk becoming catatonic. High school seniors in their San Francisco prep school psychology courses figured out a way to deal therapeutically with their collection of college rejection letters. They turned it into a competition.

I would imagine that the most ass-kicking therapy occurred when the students scored the colleges in the following categories:

-Most obsequious while maintaining utter insincerity
-Least number of words you need to read before you know you are being rejected
-Most emphatic rejection
-Shortest rejection
-Least original rejection
-Total insensitivity

Apparently Reed College won for “Total Insensitivity”:

The grand prize for “total insensitivity” is presented to Reed College. One student applied to Reed and when the college failed to notify him that they had received his materials, the student sent a polite follow-up letter inquiring about his status. Reed sent him back what was apparently intended to be an interoffice memo which read “he’s a deny.” Reed’s selection as biggest overall loser precludes them from “shortest rejection” contention.

Posted by Alexa Harrington
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