I’d reckon this is indicative of our decisions, because we had to go through the process of using our Eagle ID’s to make the account, and it’s allowing us to reserve housing, which doesn’t feel like something that would be available to everyone
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Could making an account cause them to revoke a decision?!?! I instantly regretted making one but there is no way to undo what has been done, idc if they deactivate it, but could they change their decision? I really don’t want to have possibly ruined my chances of getting in!!
I doubt it. They don’t tell you you can’t, and it’s a publicly available resource that anyone can access. I think these fears about portal hacks are greatly exaggerated.
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Some people must accidentally do this when thinking they’re just logging in to get a portal ready. There is no way they are revoking a decision.
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I agree, I highly doubt the Admissions folks are communicating with the IT folks who are setting up the accounts to see who has created an account early. Way too busy feeding information into the system and answering calls/emails from us!
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Has anyone that looked also applied to honors? Did it say anything? #haventlookedyet
When I looked, I couldn’t find any information on if I got into honors or not — just that I was accepted to AU overall. I’ll let you know if I find anything!
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The myAU portal is not actually a publicly available resource, it’s a resource for only admitted AU students. And as stated above, it’s an honor issue that this “trick” would bypass the system. Also stated above, many universities have admissions officers that check this site and others, so don’t be surprised if this does have repercussions.
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Please stop trying to scare people. If this trick has been going on for years, obviously AU knows about it. If they truly didn’t want us to do this, they would have safeguards put in place so no one could make an account early. No sense in scaring people, no one’s decision will be revoked, don’t worry. If you don’t feel comfortable making an account, then don’t.
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I stressed all nt a/b having looked at my D’s. I’m usually the queen of dorky rule-followers & she’d kill me for this! But as parents’, we don’t often have the excitement of Christmas morning, plus we’re full of the instinct to look out for things that could hurt our kids. So I’m hopeful we can be forgiven for not having better self-control in this instance. Lol! Plus, these poor kids have had no semblance of a senior year, nothing special, enjoyed no rites of passage, etc. If a school would honestly punish them for getting overly excited at the potential of being admitted to their dream school & looking at an available site, then it’s probably not the school where I’d want my money going. As regretful as I am, I’m going to give American more credit than that. 
Good luck to everyone!!
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No. I couldn’t disagree more. Creating a login for a portal based on information made available to the applicant, that is easily confused with the Future Eagle portal is not an honor issue. If they cared that much, they would’ve patched it, as kids have been doing this for years.
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Actually, the information is not “made available to the applicant” as the login for the myAU portal is a student email, which is not given to an applicant before acceptance. Given how AU formats student email names, it’s easy to figure out if you have an id (which applicants do). And while I don’t think this will have repercussions, I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. Because, again, it’s an honor issue to bypass the system on purpose like this. If it were an accident that would be one thing, but to deliberately do it that’s another.
so does anyone know if decisions are out Wednesday?
Given that after plugging in your AU ID, it assigns you a student email and username, it’s pretty publicly available.
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you’re not even an official AU representative so you have no authority or reason to tell people what counts as an honor issue. As other people have said, if they were concerned they’d have safeguards in place to make sure it didn’t happen. And it honestly shows that students are excited about AU which they should be happy about.
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i have no idea tbh this is all new to me!
Exactly, AU is a smart school… they would’ve put safeguards in if they actually cared. Finding out early doesn’t matter.
do people think the decisions will come out earlier? since the portals are updated?
They said the 17th? So thats Wednesday.
There is a difference between an honor issue and an honor code issue. An honor issue is an ethical/moral issue, aka what is being talked about here. An honor code issue would be something that break AU’s honor code or student code of conduct.
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