Wall Street Journal, Before They Were Titans, Moguls and Newsmakers, These People Were…Rejected; At College Admission Time, Lessons in Thin Envelopes:
Few events arouse more teenage angst than the springtime arrival of college rejection letters. With next fall's college freshman class expected to approach a record 2.9 million students, hundreds of thousands of applicants will soon be receiving the dreaded letters.
Teenagers who face rejection will be joining good company, including Nobel laureates, billionaire philanthropists, university presidents, constitutional scholars, best-selling authors and other leaders of business, media and the arts who once received college or graduate-school rejection letters of their own.
- Lee Bollinger (rejected by Harvard)
- Tom Brokaw (Harvard)
- Warren Buffet (Harvard)
- Scott McNealy (Harvard & Stanford)
- Paul Purcell (Stanford)
- John Schlifske (Yale)
- Ted Turner (Harvard & Princeton)
- Harold Varmus (Harvard)
- Meredith Vieira (Harvard)
