Just because people do it doesn’t make it right does it? Yes I’ve clearly struck a nerve by calling out people on their level of integrity. However it wasn’t just students trying to access the portal it was also parents on their kids behalf. Neither are ok. If you don’t like how it makes you feel when someone calls you out on your behavior that’s an indication that maybe the behavior needs to change. Like I said the sense of entitlement is alarming. Your issue isn’t with me it’s with yourself
Entitlement? How I address you? You realize over the internet, no matter who you are, you’re social standing, race, age, you have no authority over anyone? Feel free to place your opinions, but don’t expect the utmost respect from everyone, especially when you put other people down and accuse them of cheating.
You raise your daughters however you like, but if you willingly give up your authority and respect despite differing opinions, you are nothing but a mindless slave. How do you think the fascists came to power in Germany?
Additionally, why would I not rationalize my decisions? Before we make a decision we rationalize it in our minds. I am willing to take the risk of getting rescinded for any of my actions. That’s rationalization. You on the other hand decided to play it safe. kudos to you, really, kudos. We don’t really care.
Entitlement? You come in expecting to be treated as a rational individual with “age and experience”. Yet I come in here ready to fight for m beliefs with no expectations. Life doesn’t give you lemons sweetie(they may give you citruses though) so maybe understand how signing up for summer courses is not illegal, and don’t use buzz words like “back door” to justify your reasoning.
Ok @Twinmomhell I am getting triggered now. Putting it respectfully, you are simply being unaware of what we students feel at this time of the year. We truly want to decision and it’s not cheating or showing dishonesty to try to find out if we can see our decisions early. It’s not like we are chaining the decision from rejection to acceptance. You need to see things from others perspective. After all, it’s us students who applied for colleges and we are the ones who are going to college. There is a line that might be ok for you to point out some misbehaviors from us, but you have already crossed that line way too far.
We are not guilty or trying to hide our guilt through justifications if like 10 people on here are disagreeing with you. Try to see things from a student’s perspective. I wonder how you brought up your kids if you keep telling them it’s not ok for you to try any new things or have any meaningful endeavors.
Honesty is important, but sometimes even a white lie can save someone’s life. Keep that in mind. Honesty and ambition should coexist, and we are not being dishonest, only showing ambition.
I’m not here for a popularity contest. It was all of you embarrassing yourself following some random guys suggestion on how to see decisions, not me. Actually you all created your own stress by trying to get in and not getting the answers you wanted.
@Twinmomhell You are a parent on a college admissions page who is speaking on behalf of her kids. Stop.
Does anyone know how uiuc engineering (ECE) compare to Berkley Engineering (eecs)?
I actually can’t wait to tell my kids about this website in the future.
Try to see things from our perspective? You think you are right simply because you are like 30 years older than us? Why can’t you understand that we, as high school students, probably know more about the college application process more than you do? Please stop, I don’t wanna do this.
grabs popcorn and watches the roast
The people who are disagreeing with me are the ones who tried to get their results…if you were all at peace with your decisions what I said wouldn’t bother you. As for speaking for my kids. They said “they are all crazy you could get your admittance rescinded, why would they take that chance.”
Thanks for calling us cheaters and hackers. #Feelsgreat
You remind me of the yahoo comment section, calling our generation disrespectful and how we don’t show no respect. Those god darn kids and their smartphones and skateboards.
“If you don’t like how it makes you feel when someone calls you out on your behavior that’s an indication that maybe the behavior needs to change.”
Off topic but how do you feel about the march for our lives? People are calling teens out for marching and asking for more protections. Should they change their behavior? Or should they continue to support something they believe in?
Your argument is the exact same argument that I see politicians use against heroes like Emily Gonzalez.
“They’re just kids, they need to repsect us adults”
LOLZ, apparently logging into a portal is dishonesty. What has this world come to…
@Twinmomhell hi 
I’m a student but I’m also an adult so we are on an equal field when it comes to respect. When I signed up for the account I explicitly answered their questions by saying I was not currently a student, and was an applicant awaiting decisions. So never did I, or most other people for that matter, lie when signing up. They let us sign up and we still have almost no clue who has got in or not. We didn’t hack into their system and find out a concrete yes or no, we made an account that they willingly allow an applicant to make and checked our account manager. For everyone else in here, don’t lose sleep over the opinion of a sheep. An adult picking on kids who are stressed is a more embarrassing low than anything we have done with regards to this account situation.
I think that we are all smart and bright students here. We are not some criminal who is trying to hack databases from the pentagon. I personally got into better schools than Berkeley, but I still want to see my decisions pretty badly. I actually agree with your children’s words, and I try to maintain all As this last semester. I think you are making nothing into a huge thing.
@Rohael according to her it’s also “hacking”
I’m at peace. No one gained anything from doing the cal net. But like I said, it’s the way you speak. Furthermore, you were the one who called the admission and complained about the email. Are you at peace? and again, it’s you and your daughters opinion. That doesn’t really affect us. Not trying to be rude, your kids might have done things that we wouldn’t understand. so what? how would you feel if someone brought it up everytime? judging your “integrity level”.
@nyudream2221 RIP
Legit all they were doing is logging into a portal. I don’t see the issue with LOGGING INTO A PORTAL.
I know right @iwannabeabearman