By OPhere - 15/04/2013 07:37 - United States - Hayward

Today, I found out that Yale had actually accepted me 17 years ago. My mother apparently burned my acceptance package and letters because she didn't want me to upstage her UChicago degree. FML
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OPhere 5

OP here. To the people who said I deserved it, my psychotic mother actually had the balls to craft a ******* rejection letter and mail it to me. I was sixteen and had never seen an authentic denial letter from Yale---you guys would've believed it, too, had you been in my shoes. To the people who keep bringing up e-mail: it was 1996. As my generation will tell you, we grew up without the internet. To the people who agree that my mom's a bitch, damn straight she ******* is. My daughters and son will not be seeing much of mee-maw anymore, nor will I. To the people who said I wouldn't be who I am today without that lie: Doesn't matter; parents are supposed to nurture their children, not deprive them for personal gain.

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perdix 29

In some fields, University of Chicago is more prestigious than Yale. Maturity is not one of them.

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heatherp96 6

Couldn't you have gone online to see if you made it? Or even have your acceptance e-mailed to you? lol

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Sheleigh 7

I don't think the internet was that sophisticated of a place in 1996.

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Meechiepie 13

haha thank you! I was gonna comment on that but FML kept logging me out before I could make a reply to that, so annoying. Yeah, most people didn't really start getting computers until 1998 from what I remember, and even then it wasn't super commonplace, and prestigious schools or even businesses would not rely on something like that at the time.

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sparc_fml 4

Haha, as someone who has worked with technology their entire life (including in 1996!) I can assure you that very few 16 year olds had email back then. To put things in perspective - hotmail (one of the first free web based emails) only launched in mid-1996 and only purchased by Microsoft in 1997. Email was a trivial thing for most places.. any kind of serious written communication was done by mail.

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Axipiter 24

That bitch owes you a ******* life. Hope she has fun making it up to you. What a ******* piece of work she is.

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unluckygirlhere 5

That's just....wow if my mom did that I would hate her

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cappellaaa 23

I would never talk to her again if that were me. what a selfish bitch. parents should always want the best for their children

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anniemeece 23

Wow. I'd be ******* livid! I can't even.. wow.

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lochiamochia 25

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avaeba 14

Way to invalidate OP's feelings completely. Pretty sure he has the right to feel as bitter as he wants about this, having just found out

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Shade1982 20

I don't think he was saying this shouldn't be, just that he shouldn't let these feelings run his life... Which I kinda agree too.

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jmcr 27

How would she know if her mom got to the letter first? From the sounds of it ops mother has no boundaries what so ever so it would be easily enough to fake if she had the acceptance letter to make a copy of off its not that complicated of a plan if you try to "think" about it

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