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    College admission season wraps up with a rejection party, a paper shredder and joy

    by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times Apr 18, 2022 6 minutes
    Genice Caco shreds a rejection letter during a College Rejection Party at Downtown Magnets High School on April 6, 2022, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — After months of suspense over their college acceptance decisions, the seniors at Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles were much in need of a cathartic event: a college rejection party.

    Holding court in the library, clad in cheery pink, stood Lynda McGee, the school's longtime college counselor who has helped thousands of students at her low-income, high-performing high school get into college. Only seniors with letters of denial could attend the rejection party — and they must ritually destroy the bad news in a shredder. The student with the most rejections would be honored with a paper crown and $50 bookstore gift card for having the gumption to try so many times. And everyone would get ice cream sundaes.

    First up: the "Caltech shred." Students loudly booed the Pasadena science and engineering institute as four classmates destroyed their rejection letters. "Caltech doesn't deserve you!" McGee said.

    Then came wild cheers for the shredders.

    Nick Saballos, the son of a Nicaraguan immigrant who works as a minimum-wage parking valet, was rejected

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