Desert Hoya
I Got Rejected 68 Times in One Semester: Why Showing Up Changed Everything
I got rejected 68 times in one semester. Sixty-eight. I kept applying to on-campus jobs at our main campus in DC during my study abroad, and the responses were always the same: silence, or a polite "thank you for your interest." Then there were the big ones—PwC, Bain, BCG—all rejections in my first year when I applied for internships. I remember sitting there thinking, "Maybe I should do something else. Maybe consulting isn't for me."
