<p>Seriously... everyone here is ultra competitive to the point that they shoot down any hopes and optimistism held by some not-so-negative people.</p>
<p>For example, someone gets an e-mail from a certain scholarship and someone else doesn't, and while the initial poster understands that admissions and scholarships are independent offices, they get excited simply because they received SOMETHING... then someone comes along (who perhaps didn't qualify or didn't remember to apply to the same scholarship, who knows) with an antagonistic attitude saying that it's irrelevant to admissions bla bla then some snarky remark to go along with that.</p>
<p>People just chill out. My God.</p>
<p>If you're a good student, competitive and diligent you'll get in and you'll get far in life. </p>
<p>However, if you're always just bashing on other people who might have some happiness for some insignifcant thing then you need to re-examine yourself, your ego and your confidence and it's dubious you'll get ahead when you're always so snarky.</p>
<p>We should all be cheering each other on (albeit with a realist approach); you guys act like you're better than everyone else when you're not. </p>
<p>Take a chill pill people. In four weeks time all of this will have been in vain.</p>
<p>Yeah, so people just need to chillax. We will know then who got in and who didn’t; until then it’s completely inutile to be bashing others to gain some satisfaction.</p>
<p>I’m sure there will be some surprises on both ends.</p>
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<p>"What’s wrong with you guys?</p>
<p>In four weeks time all of this will have been in vain. "</p>
<p>Because this has all been in vain, there’s nothing wrong with us. </p>
<p>People here don’t knock others to feel better about themselves, they do it because they refuse to stroke overinflated egos or provide validation to people desperately reaching out for it over the internet.</p>
<p>If it’s all in vain, maybe you should take a tip from yourself and chill out.</p>
<p>they wouldn’t respond at all; no response would be the appropriate response.</p>
<p>But because people do respond (and I take it you’re amongst these who do, given your overly defensive approach to what has been said) there is only one other reason for doing so: they want to put others down so they can feel better about themselves.</p>
<p>Well I’ve never responded, but I don’t see what’s wrong with responding. When *******s show off their studyholic grades, it is extremely irritating. Not because I’m jealous of their mechanical study habits, but that I am irritated by the fact that they think their mechanical study habits makes them superior. </p>
<p>It shouldn’t really be a good thing that someone is obsessed with their GPA, obsessed with getting straight As by doing incredible amounts of studying. Being a robot shouldn’t be something to brag about.</p>
<p>No response would be the appropriate response? You’re right, it’d be much more helpful if people allowed others to stumble through life blindly believing that daisies and puppy dogs hid behind every corner.</p>
<p>But alas, there’s no way that anyone who provides a dissenting opinion could be doing someone a favor because nickthecoolest knows all. I, and the many others on this board who share the same attitudes, must be ragging on people in a shoddy attempt to project our own insecurities.</p>
<p>That must be why I’m adamantly disagreeing with you. There’s no way that anyone would ever take offense to a comment like this:</p>
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<p>Because that’s not bashing or snarky at all. I must say that you’re the least hypocritical person I’ve encountered on this board.</p>
<p>okay, I think that all nickthecoolest was trying to say was that sometimes people are a little harsh on this board, i mean who knows honestly what the person on the other screen is going through, yes maybe they have a 3.9999 and are second guessing themselves, but who doesn’t? Everyone needs a little bit of reassurance once and a while even if we know we are the best at something, it feels good to have somebody recognize it. For all we know the person with that GPA has parents that really just tell their kids you’ll never get into ucla with that GPA, who knows really and they are looking to their peers for constructive advice. I think that it is comments such as this that we should be more worried about:</p>
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New Member I don’t think you’re GPA is high enough…no backup plan?</p>
<p>sorry, but honestly you’re probably not going to get into UCLA and Berkeley </p>
<p>This guy had a great shot at UCLA and Berkeley but to stroke his own ego he says absolutely not, either way it’s wrong to comment without superior knowledge of the situation. Who is he to downright say he isn’t going to those schools. All that is necessary in cases of chance me threads really is, yes you have a good chance,or, no but this is what you can do to have a better chance blah blah. At this point it is obvious that we just need to sit and wait it out and see if we get in, I as well as most people on here feel like my brain is going to explode with the wait, and maybe posting a reassuring chance me thread will make the next person feel better, so be it. We all get annoyed sometimes with some of the comments on this thread, we just need to take it with a grain of salt, put ourselves in the other persons shoes, and think before we “talk”.</p>
<p>I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with responding. I’m saying that spywear is wrong by saying that by replying negatively one is “refusing to stroke egos” when in fact “refusing to stroke egos” would simply involve not replying at all. Spywear makes little to no sense at all, and his sarcasm doesn’t help.</p>
<p>First off, I have no idea why there is mention of “show-offs”. If you read the example I posted it says absolutely nothing about people posting their stats; it has to do with people being rude to people who feel good that they’ve gotten an e-mail from a certain school.</p>
<p>Secondly, the difference is that:</p>
<p>a.) I’m not responding to a positive post, someone wanting to reassure themselves, or someone commenting something that made them a little more hopefuly of admission to a certain school with unwarranted negativity (keyword: unwarranted).</p>
<p>b.) The people who posted their optimistic threads were not, in your words “******s”. They were innocent posters who simply felt happy for something while those to whom I am addressing this thread are the cynics who feel bashing others keeps them in check.</p>
<p>i think the UCLA/UCB etc admissions offices are reading this and laughing… they’re probably like, no no lets release the decisions later than april 30th… let’s watch more of this fighting… its fun makes reading applications interesting? =/</p>
<p>Well what’s wrong with deflating inflated egos? Or what’s wrong with bashing attention seeking ******s? I don’t do it on the internet but I sure do it in real life. </p>
<p>Not responding would be refusing to stroke egos, sure, but those egos are still left inflated. Why leave them that way? </p>
<p>@sweetnezz998: I feel quite a bit of disgust when I put myself in the shoes of obsessive over achieving freaks who think their 3.9 isn’t good enough. Sure it’s a combination of obsessiveness and the need for attention, but why should these habits be enforced?</p>
<p>Look man, it’s like one of those super hot girls who go around pretending like they think they’re ugly so people will tell them they’re actually really hot. </p>
<p>If it doesn’t disgust you, fine, but it disgusts me, and I assume it disgusts anyone who has responded negatively towards them.</p>