<p>Would a med school applicant's appearance be considered in the following criteria during admissions?</p>
<ul>
<li>Height</li>
<li>Facial attractiveness</li>
<li>Overall appearance</li>
</ul>
<p>Now, I'm not talking about cases where the applicant is very unhygenic and smells like cigarettes etc. It just seems that the majority of male doctors stand tall, about 6 feet; I just can't glimpse too many short doctors or even residents. Also, since there is patient interaction, I would imagine that looking handsome would definitely be a plus. But would the admissions committee penalize you if you were not the most handsome guy in the pool?</p>
<p>Definitely not consciously but it’s been shown that taller, more attractive people appear more confident and therefore since there is an interview component to admissions, it is possible that interviewers unconsciously rate the taller, more attractive candidates higher.</p>
<p>I would say there is no doubt that the women in my medical school class were on the whole physically more attractive than an equal number of women randomly chosen from the general population. Unless there is a positive statistical correlation between intelligence and good looks in women, being physically attractive does help.</p>
<p>I’d say my classmates are, in general, a good-looking bunch; not that they’re all knockouts, but I’d consider most of them to be pretty attractive. It also seems like med students tend to be pretty physically active, so they also seem to be more physically fit than a comparable number of people from the general population in my community (midwest). </p>
<p>For what it’s worth, there’s definitely a variation in height among the 52 guys in my class. I believe the shortest is around 5’6, and the tallest is 6’6. Many of my guy friends are taller than 6’.</p>
<p>Can’t say I’ve really thought about any of this until you brought it up!</p>
<p>Well I happen to be right at 5’6 lol!</p>
<p>I only heard about possible skin condition consideration when getting interviews for Derm. residency. I do not know how true it is, but there are so few applying to Derm. as it has very high requirments anyway that practically killing most potential applications. So, I would say that at this point, they do not care.</p>