It’s no shocker that it’s incredibly tough to get into Harvard. Currently, the school has a 3.6% admission rate, allowing around 2,000 new students in a year out of around 50,000 applicants. Competition is only getting harder with more international students challenging U.S. applicants, not to mention some students getting professional help to craft the perfect application. 

Getting rejected from your school of choice is hard, but back in 1981, one applicant didn’t take his failure lying down. Instead, Paul Devlin fired back at Harvard by rejecting their rejection letter.

He came up with the idea after noticing there was a typo in the letter, and he wouldn’t let that stand. “When I was a senior in high school, I noticed that the rejection letter I received from Harvard had a grammatical error. So, I wrote a letter back, rejecting their rejection letter. Then I sent a version to all the colleges that had rejected me,” Devlin said,........

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