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Student Who Rejected Harvard's Rejection Letter in 1981 Goes Viral Decades Later

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In 1981, high school student Paul Devlin received a rejection letter from Harvard University and decided to write back, rejecting their rejection. Devlin spotted a grammatical error in Harvard's letter and used it as the basis for a witty, confident response. His clever reply caught enough attention at the time to be published in The New York Times. More than 40 years later, the letter has resurfaced online and is once again drawing widespread attention and amusement from readers.

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