<p>Modeling is not as easy as it looks. (I would know)
Just b/c you’re tall and thin does NOT mean you’ll make a good model. You have to know how to pose, how to control your body, how to control your face, know what look suits you and what look doesn’t suit you, etc. Don’t say it’s easy if you’ve never done it. It’s like saying rocket science is easy yet you’ve never done it. And don’t even think of saying “I’ve watched America’s Next Top Model, and it looks easy.”</p>
<p>I doubt modeling is a natural trait. I’ve seen America’s Next Top Model (the tv show) and I find my hand more attractive than some of those girls. However, their execution makes all the difference so it is indeed a skill.</p>
<p>Urban legend alert: When has the Princeton application included a photograph? I am pretty certain it doesn’t now, it didn’t when I applied in the mid-70s, and I doubt that it ever has in between. Things like photographs are fairly universal no-nos in the world of applications to anything (not involving modelling or acting), for precisely the reason that it would facilitate doing something like what was described. Which no Princeton Admissions Dean has ever done, or at least not since the very, very early days of coeducation.</p>
<p>Penn did offer the option of submitting a photo, but it was not mandatory. Princeton actually talked about photos in their info session, too. Told the story of an applicant who sent in a photo of himself, wearing a Harvard sweat shirt, and the caption on the photo said, ‘Don’t let this be me.’ It made the audience laugh, but we never did learn if they accepted the guy. So, yes, the do accept and look at photos.</p>
(I kid)</p>