Last updated June 10, 2021
My freshman year, I heard about the rejection resume for the first time. Later, I took a rejection immunity class, under a likely-false premise that you can learn how to stop caring about rejection. In any case, I think it’d be good to have this up publicly for more visibility. None of this matters in a sense; you just need one “yes” to put all of the “no”s behind you. But hopefully it’s a nice counterweight to the artifical narrative that we construct around ourselves where we only showcase the good and successful. With that said…
Universities
Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, UPenn, MIT, Dartmouth (where I was waitlisted)
internships
year 2
Jane Street, Optiver, Southwest, along with ghostings from Accenture, Apollo Global Management, and Impossible Foods
year 3
Amazon, Brandless, Cal/Amp, CoreLogic, Costanoa Ventures, datto, Dyson, Envestnet, Epic, f5 Networks, Facebook, Fedex, Google, HomeAway, Indeed, Jane Street, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Pendo, PlayStation, Porsche, Remitly, Ribbon, Southwest, Spreetail, Toyota Connected, Walmart Labs, WillowTree, Zillow all rejected me.
I debated including firms that ghosted me, but for full transparency: aeris, Alarm.com, Aperia Technologies, Apple, Arris and Ruckus Networks, Atlassian, CB Insights, Credera, DataDog, Empros Capital, iRobot, Keurig Dr Pepper, Lumentum, Lyft, Meraki, Microsoft, Paypal, Rivian, Samsung, Smart Asset, Tesla, Two Sigma Ventures, Viasat, VIZIO, Warner Bros. Entertainment Group, Waymo, Zebra Technologies, and Zest Finance all rejected me without letting me know (one company avoided this list by informing me in July that I didn’t get the job).
year 4
Google, McKinsey, and Oliver Wyman
organizations
Blazers (twice), Genesis, BHP Student Recruiters, Management Consulting Association (twice) and others that don’t immediately come to mind.
awards
I did not write a Model Thesis for Plan II, nor was I a College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Distinguished Graduate, nor a Plan II Honors Distinguished Graduate. I did not receive any of the BHP Senior Awards, or EE Awards (including for senior design). My freshman year, we didn’t make it past prelims for the ABSA/BHA Case Competition. The same goes for Texas Charity Pitch my junior year.