<p>that doesn't look like you're smiling. Take another one and put on a nice shirt and show them some teeth.</p>
<p>fastMEd:</p>
<p>Not to be harsh, but I would not recommend sending that photo. Apart from the fact that you look like someone who will be wanting financial aid (a.k.a. you look poor), you are also Asian (which, unfortunately, UPenn considers an ORM), and your face could use some surgery... it is low resolution and won't enlarge well. </p>
<p>When I send my album of portraits, I'm also going to Fedex a 'painting' of me (it won't really be a painting, just a photograph which I will have printed on a portrait with paint and with a nice frame. Will that make me look self-absorbed? And I really need to know how big the portrait should be.</p>
<p>Thanks again for your help! And sorry fastMEd for having to be so horrible towards you in my post.</p>
<p>it just sounds like another way for them to ask about ethnicity, and as someone who always marks "decline to state" on questions that ask, i would never submit a photo. its none of their business what i look like (im an attractive female but thats beside the point) or what race i am.</p>
<p>i wouldnt send that photo </p>
<p>plus think about it, its not going to make or break you even if you're dazzingly beautiful. But it could definately give them some bias against you if you're ugly.
...where's the benefit?</p>
<p>"im an attractive female but thats beside the point"</p>
<p>I'd hit it. Pic? I need proof, thks.</p>