Title: Below is my decline (form) letter from applying to Seth Godin's Alternative MBA program.  Did you apply?  why or why not?  what are your thoughts on the idea and Seth Godin in general?
---------------------<p>You are amazing.<p>I’m stunned.<p>Bowled over.<p>Amazed.<p>And optimistic about our future (and yours).<p>The applications I received were astonishingly good. Thorough and honest and clear and direct. They were motivating and demonstrated just how much people can do when they put their minds to it. I read every word of every application and I learned a lot.<p>If I had 60 seats, I still would have had too many people awe-inspiring applying. Unfortunately, I have nowhere near that, and so I had to make difficult, irrational and not particularly fair choices. Alas, I’m going to be unable to work with you in 2009. There are still interviews and such to go through, so I don’t have the final group selected, but I thought the fairest thing to do was let you know as soon as possible.<p>The good news, and I hope you think it’s good news, is that you don’t need me. As I said before, I have no magic wand, no secret recipe. Your decision to just make it happen, to push forward, to change... that was the hard part.<p>Go. Do that. Blow them away. I fully expect it will happen.<p>Thanks for taking the time and thanks for understanding.<p>Seth<p>PS I’m going to post on my blog about how stellar each of you are... and I’m linking to a Google listing of applications (all of them, accepted and not). If you don’t want to be seen by others, you should delete your lens (if you made one). But I think you should be extraordinarily proud of what you’ve built and what you’ve done... and you might even get a new gig because of it.
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