How do I deal with graduate school rejection from an university that I considered easy to get into? Things you should know:


It was not a dream school.
It was considered "safe/moderate" i.e. the kind of students who get in
have more or less similar profiles like mine.
From graduate school student discussion forums , seems like no one else got
rejected.
This really hurts. If this school rejects me, what hope do I have with others?
Speaking from purely personal experience, I wouldn't necessarily worry about it. Of course it's possible that your application was weak and that generally the other schools will feel the same way. On the other hand, it's also possible that something you wrote just didn't appeal to someone working on the applications at this particular school and you were looked over. In my own experience applying to graduate school I actually got rejected from some of my 'backup' schools but was accepted (and was given extra incentive to come to) one of my 'dream' schools.