<p>Ug, so do not have the time to go to a salon to get the pink bleached out of my hair before my interview on saturday. Will this be highly frowned upon? (The school is Blair, if that helps...)</p>
<p>If it were highly frowned upon, would you be happy attending such a school? I'm not trying to be sarcastic.</p>
<p>This is a good point! (:</p>
<p>We can all sit here and try and tell you it won't matter, but it will. I would try to get to a saloon. Your interviewer may not mean to judge you by your hair but he or she probably will. Thats their job. They don't need to take chances.</p>
<p>Is your hair all pink, or just a couple strands?</p>
<p>saloon instead of salon: funny typo :)</p>
<p>Within the last few years, the President of Princeton (if it wasn't Princeton, it was an equally awesome place) said they could use a few more kids with green hair there. So don't go green, but don't sweat it. I personally am a square, but one of my D's HS teachers has multiple ear piercings, and is "cool". I think people that work with young people like their variations. Of course it would not bode well for military school...</p>
<p>See if you can get a look at the school(s) student handbook. My D's school required hair color to be "within the natural spectrum" and I'm sure my son's school would not allow dyed or long hair (boys).</p>
<p>Make sure you can be yourself at whereever (sp?) you apply!</p>
<p>don't boarding schools have some kind of rules for hair color and clothes and such? but if you want to express yourself freely maybe the boarding school isn't right for you, but if you want to go i'm guessing it's totally up to you whether or not you take the dye out of your hair. the interviewer could take it as positively or negatively i'm guessing</p>
<p>I don't have the student handbook for Blair. I don't recall seeing girls there with unnatural hair colors. It is possible that they do, but I just didn't notice it. However, I think it is likely that they have a no unnatural hair color rule. </p>
<p>My suggestion to you is to let your interviewer know that you are happy to conform to their dress code guidelines if this is true. When you go on your tour, ask the guide about the dress code. When we visited a few years ago, the tour was first. </p>
<p>They have a casual dress code for the academic day. For boys it's basically no T-shirts and jeans/hooded sweats during the academic day. It is somewhat business casual, except most boys wear sneakers. Girls dress code is probably more complicated. </p>
<p>Enjoy your visit, and good luck at the interview!</p>
<p>Don't follow my green hair advice. Guess it only is good for college. I also remembered that back in middle school one of my D's friends came back after the summer with some pink in her hair, and had to dye it, but this was a religious school, so it did not seem so out of line.</p>
<p>You go to the salon. I'll go to the saloon...</p>
<p>anothermom2--what time do we meet at the saloon? Sign me up!</p>
<p>If they care about diversity, then pink hair might even be a plus. I wouldn't worry about it. I suspect your application will show someone who is creative in many ways, and the hair will fit your image.</p>
<p>If you have a tongue stud, I would remove it, though, if that's possible. If you have any tattoos, you should make certain your clothes cover them.</p>
<p>Don't worry about it!
I dyed my hair bright red (think deeep deep auburn!) and it only intrigued the people there, and it did not ostracize me.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies! It's too late to do much about it now, and i will certainly make it clear if it comes up that i have no problem uh...rediscovering my natural hair color. I will however take out the tongue stud though for the interview! Thanks again.</p>
<p>Ahh! The first thing my interviewer at Andover said was that at my age, she had the same hair color!!! Hahaha, it was a great ice breaker and she was wonderful! So hair color, whether natural or not, can be a fun thing to talk about.</p>
<p>I am faintly reminded of a visit to a private school a few years ago which is supposed to have a strong arts/music program. Afterwards, I commented "WHere are the funky kids?" Nearly all the kids we saw (which was a lot) dressed in a fairly narrow range of 'informal prep'. No funky hair color or style, no goths, no neo-hippies, etc.
I would agree with various others - if a school really won't be happy with your style, it may not be a good choice. (Although I'll also note that being a bit more formal and tidy that is usual is also reasonable.)</p>
<p>At blair nobody will frown upon your hair. The school allows almost any style as long as it is not completely bizarre. You should be fine.</p>
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<p>what schools are those? are they religious? i think not allowing boys to have long hair is pretty restrictive.</p>