Rejection, and the Week After · Course check

Course check

3 questions. Get them all right and the Week After seal is yours. Get one wrong and you can reread and try again — as many times as you like, and nothing is recorded against you.

1. Why does the first day land harder than the setback's size suggests?

   You are losing a future you had already partly moved intoThe decision is usually unfair in some wayIt is a sign the goal was the wrong one

2. What is the move that does damage in the first week?

   Applying somewhere else too quicklyTurning one decision into a claim about the kind of person you areAsking the institution for feedback

3. Why tell two or three people?

   They may know of other opportunitiesHiding it is what makes rejection appear rarer than it isIt is a courtesy to your referees