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Teenager writes hilarious letter telling university that turned her down: "I reject your rejection"

Witty: But the teen's clever letter failed to move the university
Ever been turned down from a job that you thought you were perfect for?
Well, you might want to follow the lead of the witty American teenager who sent the university who rejected her a letter - rejecting their rejection.
Siobhan O’Dell, 17, from North Carolina, applied to Duke University, but when they turned her down she refused to take it quietly.
“Dear Duke University Admissions,” she wrote. “Thank you for the rejection letter of March 26, 2015.
"After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me admission into the Fall 2015 freshman class at Duke.
"This year I have been fortunate enough to receive rejection letters from the best and brightest universities in the country.
"With a pool of letters so diverse and accomplished I was unable to accept reject letters I would have been able to only several years ago," she continues."

Alternative: The teen has been accepted by another university
Her conclusion reads: "Therefore I will be attending Duke University's 2015 freshmen class. I look forward to seeing you then."
The gutsy youth posted the letter on Tumblr, where it quickly went viral and drew her support from the online community.
However, officials at Duke were unmoved by the teenager's initiative and obvious intelligence and sent a somewhat po-faced reply -a rejection rejecting a rejection - informing her that appeals against their decision very rarely succeed.

Irony bypass: Duke's slightly po-faced reply to the teen's letter
"I understand how disappointed you are that we were unable to offer you a space in our incoming class,” it said.
"I want to be honest with you... in the last ten years we’ve received about 500 requests for a review…and changed the decision four times."
Duke’s Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Cristoph Guttentag, had no comment on O’Dell’s application when contacted by ABC News.
However, all's well that ends well for Siobhan, who has now been accepted by the University of South Carolina.
Portaledge Hotel charges £500 a night for couples to sleep suspended 200ft up cliff face
It's more Travel-ledge than Travelodge, but organiser Sam Farnsworth said: “It's a thrill to wake up on a narrow piece of canvas with nothing below you for 200ft”

Love on the rocks? Make it up by hanging out with your other half in a room with a view at a 'Travel-ledge'.
For £500 a night you get to camp out on a canvas platform suspended 200ft up a cliff face.
Guests to the ‘Portaledge Hotel’ at Anglesey, North Wales, abseil down at sunset to spend the night strapped into a harness and hung from the cliff edge.
They are served a hot dinner with a stove hung off the side of the ledge and a full Welsh breakfast the next morning.
Organiser Sam Farnsworth said: “It is quite a thrill to wake up on a narrow piece of canvas with nothing below you for 200ft.”
Are Aliens Behind Mysterious Radio Bursts? Scientists Weigh In

What are those things?
For the past eight years, astronomers have been scratching their heads over a series of strange radio signals emanating from somewhere in the cosmos. And now, the mystery has deepened.
A new study shows that the so-called "fast radio bursts" follow a weirdly specific pattern -- a finding that the researchers behind the study say "is very hard to explain."
"There is something really interesting we need to understand," study co-author Michael Hippke, a scientist at the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, told New Scientist. "This will either be new physics, like a new kind of pulsar, or, in the end, if we can exclude everything else, an E.T."
Alien signals, really? That might sound far out, but a leading scientist in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) says we shouldn't rule out that possibility.
"These fast radio bursts could conceivably be 'wake up calls' from other societies, trying to prompt a response from any intelligent life that's outfitted with radio technology," Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director of the Center for SETI Research who was not involved in the study, told The Huffington Post in an email. "On the other hand, they could also be perfectly natural, astrophysical phenomena."
For the research, which was described in a March 30 post on the online research database arXiv, Hippke and his colleagues analyzed 11 bursts detected since 2007, the latest of which was captured by the Parkes radio telescope (above) in May 2014.
The scientists looked at a specific feature called the "dispersion measure" -- which represents the time differential between the detection of a burst's high frequencies and its low frequencies. (Low frequencies travel more slowly through space dust, and thus take longer than high frequencies to reach Earth.)
To their surprise, they found that the dispersion measure of every pulse was a multiple of the number 187.5.
Such an even spacing "is likely not produced by something like a supernova explosion," Hippke told HuffPost Science in an email. "All frequencies leave the nova at the same time, and the DM [dispersion measure] is created by dust crossing. As the amount of dust varies, the DM would seem random."
Hippke said the pulses probably are generated by some as-yet-unidentified source here on Earth that emits short-frequency radio waves followed by high-frequency ones -- perhaps something as simple as a cell phone base station. If that's not the explanation, it's possible they come from a new, unknown kind of cosmic object in deep space.
Or those aliens.
Or those aliens.
Whatever the signals are, stay tuned!