Originally Posted by
jphripjah
Haha, I just got rejected... sour taste in your mouth.
The same is really true for anything. E.g. you can apply for a credit card (those are certainly "publicly advertised" websites with the tons of email, US mail, web ads, billboards, TV ads, that you see everyday) and still get rejected. You can apply for a job, even if they contacted you first, and get rejected. You can even ask someone on a date, who you know is looking, and get rejected.
So you can apply to whatever you want, but if you don't fit their criteria, then tough luck.