<p>I was told this is a bad idea if you look sexy/alluring in photos because</p>
<p>1) males tend to think beautiful girls are dumb</p>
<p>2) female admissions officers will become jealous</p>
<p>...and you get rejected.</p>
<p>true?</p>
<p>wow..i'm speechless.</p>
<p>lol i swear i read it in a published book on college admissions.</p>
<p>DON'T send your picture in! Every university that received my "d's" picture did NOT accept her, and every university she did not send her photo to, accepted her. Very ironic if you ask me. </p>
<p>Btw......she is gorgeous and her photo is used on the photographer's website for the class of 2007 now.</p>
<p>......I'm also speechless.......</p>
<p>Damn.</p>
<p>I think that Penn (?) asks for a picture for some reason...creepy?</p>
<p>id just send my senior picture...its less weird. you know, the head shot with the drab black dress/suit that you have to wear for yearbook pics. you dont have to send a glamor shot</p>
<p>^the penn thing is strange.</p>
<p>so the book was right, according to momoney?</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification =). I guess you could send in your senior picture, but those could look too nice too?</p>
<p>They also said that if you don't look good in photos, or if you're overweight, don't send one either (although that's pretty obvious)....</p>
<p>supposedly an overweight applicant sent a picture, and the admissions officer wrote "too fat?" among other negative things with the summary of the application. he was rejected, according to the book.</p>
<p>wow, send a pic? why would you want to do that anyways? like how would sending in beautiful pictures of yourself help you or something?</p>
<p>Brown's application has a place for an optional photo. I dunno...I think it could go either way in the admission process depending on the type of picture you send. Should it be a studious, typical picture; a glamour shot to show you have more than just smarts; a funny, random photo to portray your creative juices and gift for wit?</p>
<p>Ohhh decisions, decisions...</p>
<p>I think it helps, if you're doing a funny/random picture, to include a caption. Use the text tool in Photoshop or something to describe what's going on.
I did that for Brown, and it worked out fine.</p>
<p>Wow, I hardly ever hear about gorgeous girls being hurt by their looks...for the whole pretty-girls-are-stupid thing, though, what if the girl has the numbers to prove that she's smart?</p>
<p>You'd think that admissions officers would want pretty people at their schools lol</p>
<p>Some colleges like to only allow aesthetically appealing looking people to attend to make their college seem more appealing and breed a race of super smart super hot people.</p>
<p>i just made that up</p>
<p>hehe... haven't you seen legally blonde?</p>
<p>jk... that was just the first thing that came to mind when i read this post.</p>
<p>ok here's the deal...
it was her senior picture. It winded up looking very glam. I don't know why, it just did. Nice make-up, hair, everything. Probably one of, if not the best pic she has ever taken. She also wore a very large tiffany necklace (probably didn't help much). She also sent in a gymnastics collage (only 8X10) with her flipping in mid-air on all 4-events. It basically went with her essay. Anyway, my guess is that her senior picture (tiffany jewelry, very good looking), and being a level 9 jr olympic gymnast probably labled her "privileged", which may have gone against her a bit. I don't know, just a thought.</p>
<p>Huh I never heard of sending a picture with any application....</p>
<p>Probably wouldn't hurt you at Smith.</p>
<p>They ask for a picture so they can know your personality more or something. Most of the time it's optional, although I heard for some apps they ask for it. Subconciously many things could happen I would imagine, although out and out writing "too fat" would probably violate whatever code of ethics the reviwer is supposed to be adhering to.</p>
<p>Yeah, being enlightened intellectuals, they'd probably just write "over-fed."</p>
<p>hahaha. </p>
<p>The girls that were accepted to Penn from my school this year were pretty attractive... interesting.</p>
<p>I heard Wake Forest asks for a photo also? not sure if that's correct though</p>