India, April 29 -- High school students love to celebrate after receiving acceptance letters from colleges, but some are now making light of their rejections with a new viral trend known as the "Rejection Cake Trend."

A TikTok video featuring Ceci Skala, Needham, Massachusetts high school senior, and her pals making a "rejection cake" has received over five million views. On a plain cake, the women arrange sticks with the logos of the schools that turned them away one by one.

"If you're applying to a hard college and you're seeing all these acceptance videos, it's going hurt, because it's like, 'Am I the only one rejected? Am I not good enough?" Skala asked. "You don't see all the videos of everybody else getting rejected."

Skala and h...