Along with posting your site, perhaps it is what you are submitting for a description? If you are simply stringing together a bunch of keywords - I and most others will reject you submission without ever visiting the site. I have a unique field as part of my submission requirements - put crap in it - I won't bother looking at your site. So while your site may be new with no PR, it might be your submission that is undermining your efforts.
The only ways i reject directories or web pages is if the content, and script doesn't match the category. I dont want an unseccessful site leaving the board in my site. I have high serp, and good pr with alot of traffic, and i dont want to be weighed down by junk. I pay alot of attention to index,and i dont ask alot, because i feel every http has potential of being the best. I just feel if your not benifitting your site your not going to benifit mine.... I submit pr0 no different than a pr10...
I'm not sure this comment is true at all. I've been on both sides of the coin. From the directory owners perspective reviewing sites. A site is reviewed on its own merits. PR is Google's method of ranking a page, its not mine. So it doesn't even come into consideration when deciding whether your site is eligible to be listed or not. From the directory submission perspective (of a new site). I have found that PR0 sites, with great content, do just as well as if they had PR. I have done a submission recently to every directory of a brand new site, and more than 100 added within a week. It's probably got more to do with how you are submitting. A lot of people neglect to take the time to read guidelines for inclusion in directories, or to ensure their submission information is free from errors and not spammy. It's funny because if they took 5-10 minutes to double and triple check their information, they would find in most cases that their submission acceptances will improve.