Some of you know that I applied to graduate school in psychology. Anyway, I got my first rejection letter yesterday. It was from the school that I most wanted to go to and where I thought that I had the best chance. They didn't even call me for an interview. Yesterday I was in shock. Today it hurts. I never really thought that any of these schools would give me a second look anyway, but I have been worried about how I would deal with being rejected.

I have applications at two other schools, and would be thrilled to go to either one of them, but one of my professors has told me that there is almost no chance that one of those in particular will accept me. The only things I have heard from these remaining two have been notifications about other forms to fill out or that they hadn't received everything they were supposed to yet. I should have applied to more than this, but it gets expensive. There was a fourth school I was going to apply to, but decided it wasn't worth $60 to apply someplace where I knew I didn't have a chance. So I only applied where I thought I might get in. That was probably a mistake.

I'm paranoid too, thinking that they could have discovered me on this forum and found out too much about me, but I don't really think they would go to that much trouble.