<p>Adcom are human and have their biases. Some might like attractive, fit kids but you may encounter an overweight intellectual who looks at hours at the gym as a waste of time when you could be reading.</p>
<p>You guys all bring up good points.</p>
<p>I just hope in an interview to show that although my grades and test scores are pretty good but not perfect…(3.94/32 ACT…hoping to bring that up saturday!), i am smart, but i do other stuff too.</p>
<p>I hope that being fit and continuing to work out this summer and bulk up will give me an edge over a person with slightly better grades/test scores…but theyre a little nerdy kid ya know?</p>
<p>Hope that will make me seem like a more rounded person…and I care about other stuff, even though I already have enough extracirriculars.</p>
<p>I assume you mean schools where the adcom actually do interviews? There are not many very competitive schools that still do that.</p>
<p>I interview for my alma mater and I can tell you that looks don’t affect my personal judgment, positively or negatively. I wouldn’t let it.</p>
My interviewer was in his late twenties and for the first half, could barely look me in the eyes when he spoke to me… lol.
Dressing for success works. In the academic world you should go for classic over stylish, though.
How deep of a search does it take to tag on to a six year old thread?
Neat + Clean + Respectful > Built + Buff