A riposte I hope to use one day

What I tell people about PC is that as long as you're healthy, sane, and have a college degree, you can get accepted. The application process is pretty difficult in terms of amount of time required and number of things you have to do, but it's not like some great task requiring demonstrations of strength and cunning. That said, there are genuinely good reasons for people to be denied: They are clearly intolerant of other cultures, they are running away from the law, they have severe mental issues, they worked for the CIA, and so on. But most applicants who end up not making it to staging drop out of the application process by their own volition, not because they were denied by the recruiter or medical office. People have their own reasons -- you're getting married, you have dependents, you have a great job offer, whatever. Someone even said that they couldn't go because they had an old cat.

I hear from RCPVs that when people find out they were in the Peace Corps, a response they get quite often is "Oh, really! I was going to join the Peace Corps!" or "I wanted to do that!" I've heard that when they get these kinds of responses, how hard it is to resist replying, "But you didn't, did you?"