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Before They Were Titans, Moguls and Newsmakers, These People Were...Rejected 曾被名校拒之门外的名人们 3/24)At College Admission Time, Lessons In Thin EnvelopesFew events arouse more teenage angst than the springtime arrival of college rejection letters. With next falls college freshman class expected to approach a record 2.9 million students, hundreds of thousands of applicants will soon be receiving the dreaded letters.Teenagers who face rejection will be joining good company, including Nobel laureates, billionaire philanthropists, university presidents, constitutional scholars, best-selling authors and other leaders of business, media and the arts who once received college or graduate-school rejection letters of their own.Both Warren Buffett and Today show host Meredith Vieira say that while being rejected by the school of their dreams was devastating, it launched them on a path to meeting life-changing mentors. Harold Varmus, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, says getting rejected twice by Harvard Medical School, where a dean advised him to enlist in the military, was soon forgotten as he plunged into his studies at Columbia Universitys med school. For other college rejects, from Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy and entrepreneur Ted Turner to broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw, the turndowns were minor footnotes, just ones they still remember and will talk about.Rejections arent uncommon. Harvard accepts only a little more than 7% of the 29,000 undergraduate applications it receives each year, and Stanfords acceptance rate is about the same.The truth is, everything that has happened in my life . . . that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better, Mr. Buffett says. With the exception of health problems, he says, setbacks teach lessons that carry you along. You learn that a temporary defeat is not a permanent one. In the end, it can be an opportunity.Mr. Buffett regards his rejection at age 19 by Harvard Business School a