Just got denied from my dream grad school. Got denied for not turning in “required documents before deadline”. I checked every single day to see if they had added anything to “to-do list” on the school account. Never saw anything. Always saw “no action required”. I am so heartbroken. Don’t know if I was automatically supposed to know there was a deadline? 

I know this isn’t the worst thing to happen, i could always wait for next year to reapply if I wanted to. But this year has been so tough. Grad school was supposed to be my distraction and my happy place after it all.