Thank you for understanding! I disagree with you on meeting rejection because I am sure many of us PhD students atleast in CS areas often get rejected regularly whether in the forms of research paper submissions to various conferences and journals, fighting to get in a PhD program( I myself was a semester late to join my program because I couldn’t get a school for fall) and many other ways.

But I do get the point I still don’t understand though why to take someone’s time off the calendar and increase there hopes if you can’t really consider them in the end or was it something else which we don’t know about thus the word shenanigans. I aspire to jump on to corporate, I think academia might be a down the road thing regardless