<p>First, does overall attractiveness of a student body remain the same year to year? Like take USC and Vanderbilt, places with repuations of having hot girls. What good is using this in your decisions if there is no guarantee that the class coming in will be as attractive? If it does remain the same year to year, why? Do certain places attract more good looking students? Or do they use attractiveness in admissions decisions, like in the interview?</p>
<p>Yes. A picture must be submitted with every application. W T F</p>
<p>That depends on the regional and ethnic demography of students typically attending the school along with the atmosphere of the school itself. Vandy’s campus still somewhat attracts the well-off southern-white crowd. They often get the stereotypical pretty southern blonde white women for example. We, at Emory, for example, attract many more Asians (will include Indian/Middle Eastern students here in this case), and Jewish students. Normally, such students are not considered attractive by American/European standards of beauty which are well entrenched in society. I’d imagine that USC tends to attract a lot of California students, many of which, are probably very attractive (whether it’s “real” or not is a different story). In California, attractiveness is perhaps extremely important to a social life. But no, be serious dude. Vandy does not admit based upon such criteria. It’s rediculous. It’s a southern feeling campus (this certainly holds in terms of architecture and location. Other than the forestry, our campus for example, isn’t really southern at all. The architecture we have here isn’t even typical for any college campus for that matter, and certainly doesn’t fit with the southeast well. Seems out of place almost. Not welcoming to usual “southerners” that would rather attend top state schools or more southern feeling schools like Vandy) with the remnants a traditional southern crowd. What I mean is, that here, for example, even those coming from the Southeast are going to be more ethnically diverse than those at Vandy, as we tend to attract many Asian Americans who happen to live in metro Atlanta. Many of our southern students are not white and blonde. Even most of our white students overall are in fact Jewish. Vandy is indeed analogous to the issue at USC with USC still having a traditional California (southern cali. at that) crowd and feel.<br>
I bet the attractiveness of students would also correlate with the presence of big time sports for some reason. I guess that would makes sense.</p>
<p>I gladly provided you with my opinion, but I believe you are worried about the wrong thing. I hope this is a joke. Hopefully you take your consideration of Vandy as a choice more seriously than implied by your post.</p>
<p>This guy has posted on the vandy board twice. Once to make a stupid comment about vandy cheer leading and then this. Just ignore him</p>
<p>no please dont ignore me</p>
<p>I don’t remember submitting a picture from the commonapp but, I was accepted. So I’m not sure what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>You got into Georgetown without being able to understand sarcasm? Jesus.</p>
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<p>Based on my (thankfully, limited) experience with them, ■■■■■■ tend to be less attractive than the average applicant. So you better hope not.</p>
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<p>Even assuming volatility in student body attractiveness, it’s still “good” for some prospective students because presumably they can date sophomores, juniors, seniors, etc. That’s probably not an option (for you or for them), so I suggest that you not apply to either USC or Vanderbilt. Have you considered all men’s colleges? Your chances at a (straight) dating life would only be marginally affected there.</p>
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<p>Don’t worry, I won’t. Sometimes you ■■■■■■ get hungry and I believe in feeding the needy.</p>