<p>I can see why some colleges would want a picture. I mean, if you are someone who lets say protests a lot and your using that in your app, they may think u are some person who looks like a hippy (not that anything is wrong with that). Colleges want to put a face on someone that they are evaluating. I personally dont think that photos should be submitted but I can see why colleges would want them. </p>
<p>celebrian, dont be so hard on yourself! have a bit more self confidence!</p>
<p>2X2 inches for U.S. passports. If you're Australian, it's also 2X2 inches.</p>
<p>New Zealand requires 4X5 cm for its passports.</p>
<p>Most other countries use 3.5 x 4.5 cm photos for their passports.</p>
<p>I have a digital camera. Can I just print the picture in high quality and attacth it to the little space? Or do I have to make the trip to CVS to get it printed? lol. (This is for Penn btw)</p>
<p>i wonder. (10 char)</p>
<p>Putting a face to an application I think definitely helps - especially to get across your personality. But definitely use high-quality paper to print your picture. Although if you're ugly... which I'm sure none of you are, photoshop is most definitely the key. It can make anyone a supermodel. :]</p>
<p>I don't have photoshop. But wouldn't colleges know some people are bound to edit their pictures</p>
<p>Nobody here knows the definition of ugly until they have seen me. I am serious. But then I've heard I'll fit in nicely with the other Biology majors at big universities where people don't emerge from their rooms for days at a time, even to shower. That's the main complaint I hear about Yale.</p>
<p>I don't think a picture would affect your application seriously at all, unless you were wearing something scandalous and the adcom was so disgusted they dropped your application out the window with ten-foot-long pincers. Whether you're Reese Witherspoon or her dog (total insinuation there), they should look at your application, not your face.</p>
<p>Unless, of course, you're auditioning for Theater. That's a different story.</p>
<p>But humans are naturally superifical. We have a tendency to be attracted to attractive people. But I'm sure adcoms know before hand that there are people who'll photoshop their pictures, that's why you should get it professionally done. So, they would never EVER know how you truly look. Woohoo, go false advertisement.</p>
<p>I guess we can only speculate. but that's funny aal0ha!</p>
<p>OMG this thread is flooding with utterly bad self esteem lol. That being said, I think I;m unattractive as well.</p>
<p>I don't have low self-esteem. I'm ugly and proud :p</p>
<p>shouldn't you send the picture if your ugly? maybe they feel bad for ugly people?</p>
<p>The guys that open the envelopes might just toss the pictures out before anyone sees them. What a waste of time and money for those aspiring models.</p>
<p>If any of my apps asked for a picture, I'd just grab my camera, go to the bathroom, and take a picture in the mirror.</p>
<p>::shrugs:: </p>
<p>If you think you're ugly, wouldn't it just show the adcoms that you're confident enough with yourself to give a picture voluntarily?</p>
<p>i'm lazy and for all i know all the places I'm applying to to could ask for a picture. I've barely even glanced over my applications</p>
<p>haha. Maybe if you were hideous enough - they'd pity you in and be like... ah god, but he's so ugly, you have to feel bad for him. haha.</p>
<p>I'm not saying any of you are ugly...</p>
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If you are attractive and they dont request like in the common app is it worth sending? Should I send it a 3x4 (passport size picture)</p>
<p>or possibly I could put a small pic on the resume.
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<p>Please tell me this one was a joke.</p>
<p>Geez, you guys are probably all beautiful. Not to sound conceited or anything of that sort, but I don't think I'm that bad. I don't want to sell my looks to get in (like tkm256 said, they should be considering my application) but would it hurt?</p>
<p>it probably wouldn't hurt</p>
<p>What if I'm applying to an all-girls school like Smith?</p>