College Rejection Breeds Future Success

The Wall Street Journal has a wonderful story, Before They Were Titans, Moguls and Newsmakers, These People Were...Rejected, profiling successful Americans who overcame early failures. It has a very positive, inspirational message. I really like this quote from Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, who was rejected from Harvard:

To "allow other people's assessment of you to determine your own self-assessment is a very big mistake," says Mr. Bollinger, a First Amendment author and scholar. "The question really is, who at the end of the day is going to make the determination about what your talents are, and what your interests are? That has to be you."

Anything is possible in America!