<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Rejection: Some Colleges Do It Better Than Others</span>
* APRIL 29, 2009 By SUE SHELLENBARGER
Members of this year's record-size high-school graduating class applied to more colleges than ever -- and now, that's resulting in a heavier than usual flurry of rejection letters.
Hundreds of students at high schools from Newton, Mass., to Palo Alto, Calif., have created cathartic "Wall of Shame" or "Rejection Wall" displays of college denial letters. On message boards at CollegeConfidential.com, students critique, attack and praise missives from various schools, elevating rejection-letter reviews to a sideline sport.
Even with impressive test scores and grades, abundant extracurricular activities, good recommendations and an admission essay into which "I poured myself heart and soul," Daniel Beresford, 18, of Fair Oaks, Calif., netted 14 rejection letters from 17 applications, he says. Among the denials: Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago. (He's bound for one of his top choices, Pepperdine University.) When he "realized it was going to be so much harder this year," he started calling in reinforcements, asking teachers and friends to open the rejections for him.
Here, based on my own highly unscientific survey of actual letters, student interviews and message boards, are my picks for this year's most noteworthy college rejection letters -- and the liveliest response by a student.
source: <a href='http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124096471555766239.html' target='_blank'>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1240964 ... 39.html</a>
ref links:
<a href='http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2009/04/29/ ... n-letters/' target='_blank'>http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2009/04/29/ ... etters/</a>
<a href='http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/ ... t0904.html' target='_blank'>http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/ ... 04.html</a>
参考以上不同的落榜通知书（最生硬的、最亲切的、最和善的等）样例，学习对同一事件的不同表达方式。