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Basically, if you get rejected from stage 1 vs. rejection as waitlistee #61 when it moved up 60 spots...the end result = you get rejected and have to re-apply/find alternate plans.

 

I find that really sad. It's like you've come SO far, and you can see the finish line, and then it's like..whoops, do not pass Go, do not collect $200 :(

 

And the truth is that it happens for so many qualified applicants every year...While you may feel superior for getting to the interview stage, etc. but at the end of the day, isn't a rejection a rejection? =( Maybe it would've been easier to have known earlier rather than wait all summer and then get the boot.

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Lol while it may get your hopes up which sucks....

 

I would think one thing that you actually could be happier about with a post interview rejection.... you can judge the atmosphere and questions asked in your interview and if your going to take another go at it I think you would be more confident in the same situations and prepared from just having actual practice...

 

Just a thought..

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But how much does that help if you're applying 2 years down the road?

 

I'm already getting hazy images of my interview (which is a good thing NOW I suppose...keeps my mind off it), I really wonder how much I can remember in two YEARS. Plus by then, things would've changed so much that your experience might as well be useless.

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The two times I applied in the past, I got interviews at Ottawa and both times, was waitlisted.

 

I was told that the French waitlist really doesn't move much. So I wasn't waiting around all summer, but it REALLY sucked.

 

I felt that I was still a good candidate because I wasn't outright rejected but the end result was the same.

 

I definitely was feeling more prepared for this cycle, though. I do remember my interviews, even if it's more just of a general feeling, and I think it helped. I rationalized the rejection as being a difference in my strengths relative to the strengths of other applicants and that I simply needed to sharpen my interview skills.

 

But it definitely sucked, and I have no more insight than that! It was crushing and I'm left expecting a better outcome this time. Which might make potential rejection again even more difficult? I guess we'll have to see...

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i feel that a post interview rejection is a bit of a mixed bag: you're fortunate enough to have enough going for you that someone selected you for an interview based on what you've written on paper (or by a mindless number crunching computer, depending on the school). But on the other hand, it represents a bigger failure in that you've been seen and interviewed in person and deemed to be not good enough. You do however have the hope of improving your interview skills and reapplying because if you were good enough on paper once, you can likely do it again.

 

A pre-interview rejection is tragic because you haven't really had the opportunity to show yourself beyond a few pieces of paper (or sometimes a handful of numbers). You don't know if you will ever have the opportunity to move beyond that first stage, but you also have the hope (or consolation) that if only you could be seen as something more than a number (ie make it to the interview stage) you have the right personality to get in. A pre-interview rejection, especially at schools that filter based on marks, is not an indication of a major failure... at least I wouldn't see it as such.

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