<p>Why does Georgetown have a space for an optional photo of yourself on the paper application? I sent one with my app - just my formal senior portrait. If my admissions officer thinks I'm hideous and gets a subconscious negative first impression, wouldn't that be unfair?! </p>
<p>Can anyone please explain to me the purpose of asking for a picture?</p>
<p>haha I didn't understand it either, and I was too scared to send one. I would guess, though, that it's just another way they try to get to really know the applicant so the application is more than just a piece of paper.</p>
<p>It's a backup measure to verify identity if that should be disputed. </p>
<p>Who am I kidding. Yes Georgetown only takes hot people. I suggest wearing a popped pink polo in your picture for best results.</p>
<p>Don't worry, affirmative action applies to ugly people, too lol</p>
<p>The "make an application more personal" aspect is part of it. The pictures are also used in the New Student Facebook (an actual printed one) that first-year students are given at New Student Orientation.</p>
<p>I've worked with the admissions office before and it's really only because it's easier to remember an application if you can put a face to it. A lot of people don't send it in and it's fine.</p>
<p>dzleprechaun, no, that's a seperate form you fill out and send a photo with</p>
<p>When people don't send in that form, sometimes they would go back and get the photo from the application. At least, that was the case a few years back. I never sent in the NSO facebook form, and my photo in it is the one I submitted with my application (as well as the GoCard one they ask for).</p>
<p>If you applied online, is there a place to attach the photo, or do you send that in the mail? It makes sense, the admissions person may remember you from school visit, HS trips, etc. I happened to see the admissions person at my HS, and later, at the campus.</p>
<p>On another schools application that allows for attached photo,; I have seen prospective students include a photo of them on campus (to show interest) or a photo of something that is meaningful to them, and then write about it in one of their essays. Sometimes it’s nice to connect visually.</p>
<p>As a side note, there was no New Student Facebook this year- it must have been trimmed from the budget somewhere.</p>
<p>When interviews are conducted by alumni, how can a photo help the admissions office remember an applicant?</p>
<p>Hahahaha Mario-Vaz! That was really funny.</p>
<p>Bringing this back from the dead… bump. </p>
<p>You can only send the picture on the paper app? Or can you do it online too?</p>
<p>hey so i am an incoming freshman into sfs. didn’t send in a picture and got in ea. guys seriously stop worrying about such a trivial aspect of your app and worry about the important stuff… like the essays perhaps?</p>
<p>It may help the Regional Rep. remember you if he or she met you during the visit to your high school or your town’s college night.</p>