When I was finishing my Undergraduate degree i applied for the doctoral program. I was told by the Assistant Dean that I was a female and women got pregnant and married or married and pregnant and never used graduate degrees. So, he said, with his feet on his desks, he didn’t even want to see my application. Furthermore, he told me a graduate degree, unlike an UG degree was not a money making deal for the school, so I would never be accepted.

2 years later, I was accepted into a doctoral program. Right as I finished, I went to an academic conference and noticed there was a “Dean’s Forum”. One of the deans was that former Assistant Dean. (I guess he’d been promoted). I went to the forum and as that Ass’t Dean walked out, I went up to him, told him who I was. When I introduced myself I made sure to say I was “Doctor Long.” and reminded him of what he’d said. He turned bright red in front of a lot of other deans and hustled away. I knew he couldn’t do anything about it, but I was thrilled to see him as unhappy with me as I had been with him.

EDIT: Thank you for all the upvotes.

EDIT2: I never expected this many upvotes. I got nothing out of confronting my former Dean except the satisfaction that he learned that his decision was not a good one.