<p>Must it be in portrait form?</p>
<p>I don't take many photos of myself so far the only good one I have is a photo fo me playing in a chess tournament with another person.</p>
<p>the point is to be able to get a personal feel for you and what you're like - so seeing your face is kinda important, glamour shot isn't so necessary.</p>
<p>If that's the criteria, well, I scrounged the internet for photos others have taken of me -- haha, I don't have anything else than photos taken at award ceremonies. I don't get my picture taken often. :o</p>
<p>Would it be really funny/pompous to send a photo of yourself with a medal on?</p>
<p>Or, an atlernative ...</p>
<p>Would it matter if the resolution was somewhat grainy and poor (but you can definitely see all the features of my face), or would that be seen as insulting?</p>
<p>why dont u just take a picture right now and send that one?</p>
<p>I made a "I <3 Penn" shirt and wore it in the picture =P</p>
<p>the way i see it, if you're hot, it doesn't hurt to show it in a picture. charisma definitely helps (an extremely extremely small factor though)</p>
<p>would senior pictures be a pretty safe/standard way to go? If I don't include a pic, does it seem like i'm less interested?</p>
<p>senior pictures would be good. i just wouldn't go for something too corny (i <3 penn) but what do i know? people have done that and have gotten in.</p>
<p>to me, if you don't have a picture you seem less interested (possibly insecure about yourself? i dunno maybe i'm looking too far into this). but the whole point is to present the application as yourself, and if you have your picture it seems much more personalized.</p>
<p>I think slightly grainy pictures are okay (I hope!). I sent in a slightly black and white picture of me taken on a friend's mac, but I thought it portrayed my personality the best (plus I had sparkling eyes and the cutest smile ever =P). It'll make the adcom feel worse when they're rejecting the cutest girl ever.</p>
<p>I honestly cant see adcoms caring much about the picture. I mean, even in my head it sounds stupid: "Hey, this guy has such a bad picture. Nah! Reject!"</p>
<p>I (poorly) superimposed my face over a picture of Superman in MS Paint and got in.</p>