It is never fun to be rejected. As schools notify students of the good and bad news, we want to hear your stories. Did they let you down easy? Were they nasty? How did you react?

Sci-fi fantasy author Jason Michael Primrose on his debut series, “The Lost Children of Andromeda”
Jason Michael Primrose, the author of “The Lost Children of Andromeda” series, holds up a worn 5.5 by 11-inch book, its pages held together by plastic binding and flips through to show me a collection of drawings he created when he was nine years old. Then, reaching...