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Does being good looking help your chances?

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Traum
Surely the Apprentice Badger V Blondie is the perfect example? The hotter one won...
also i remember reading a newspaper once upon a time (ok, i don't have any actually proove of this except from my failing memory) that girls (women) who wear skirts to job interviews are more likely to be sucessful thay those who don't...doesn't say nefing about their attractiveness though.

But out of some of the people that got in with this year to Exeter (ox), i'd say there are def something fishy going on there.:p:

ofcourse other things being equal (hardly the case) i'd choose the prettier one...i mean would you rather have Vicky Pollard than Angelina Jolie if they have the same everything else?


i was just about to say that myself:rolleyes:

as for the skirt thing, i thought i read that for professional jobs, wearing a skirt and a more revealing shirt reduces your chances because you seem more reliant on your body than your brain.... but can't remember where i read that or even if that is what it said...i have a poor memory :p:
Not at all...i know some gorgeous women who wern't accepted but deserved to be who are equal to others...(much uglier others)
Traum
when they are wearing glasses whereas most girls will be dorks...p:smile:

damn it *snaps glasses in half*
:p:
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Traum
**noooni**
damn it *snaps glasses in half*
:p:


lol suppose i sud snap mine too... blurred Vision (or pain with contacts!) forever!:biggrin:
Traum
lol suppose i sud snap mine too... blurred Vision (or pain with contacts!) forever!:biggrin:

Contacts are underated.... actualy so are glasses. I dont see why everyone doesnt have glasses. Shame on all of you! :cool:
Of the Oxbridge females I know, I can't remember any of them being outstanding, so I guess they were just exceptionally bright.
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Wrangler
It's human nature to assume Cambridge will be full of ugly people - in the same sense it's human nature to assume that the back stage of a fashion show will be full of stupid people. We try and compensate for an individuals asset with some form of defect (models are stupid, cambridge geeks are ugly, scientists are socially inept, art students can't count, etc).

There's going to be a few fugly ducklings, there's going to be a few stunners. :smile:


Beat me to it.
There are some very pretty girls here (not including myself!), intelligence and attrativeness aren't mutually exclusive..
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okay this is might sound shallow but..:rolleyes:

I had met one of my interviewers at Oxford a couple of months beforehand at a summer school ..and i found out then how he is sooooo into the lebanese culture, lebanese food, furniture, traditions etc and lebanese belly dancers! lol

I am myself sorta lebanese and the first question he asked me at my first Oxford interview was..where i was originally from? and i say he was pleasantly surprised when i told him, with the whole "Ooooh reallly?!" thing and a huge grin on his face!

I thought that this might do the trick :rolleyes: but hey it didnt, i still got rejected! lol :p:
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Traum
lol suppose i sud snap mine too... blurred Vision (or pain with contacts!) forever!:biggrin:


I wore mine to my interview (I think). And I still wear them most of the time, although I've got a different, funkier pair now.
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I think it is impossible for 2 applicants to be exactly the same such that looks would matter. Subconsciously though, I wouldn't be surprised.
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sebbie
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I think being attractive helps up to a point (no one wants to look at someone who is hideous all day) but I've also read that people who are absolute stunning are less likely to be picked as people don't want them around.... (unless its as a secretary or something)
Well I think we can say that consciously it doesn't matter. As someone above said, there will be butters people and choongers people. It's nothing.

This thread should be locked.
I think a smile will help loads, either way.
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Platocrates
there will be butters people and choongers people.


I like it!
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sTe\/o
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Platocrates
Well I think we can say that consciously it doesn't matter. As someone above said, there will be butters people and choongers people. It's nothing.

This thread should be locked.

No, it shouldn't. It's banter.
Hmm. Maybe in the sense that attractive people are more likely to be self confident than ugly people, and so be more confident and outgoing in an interview. Other than that, it would have to be a fairly bloody corrupt system if it was true. Certainly not the case at my school. Three of us got in, and we're all 'plain' all the pretty people got rejected...
*grins, evilly*
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sTe\/o
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shinyhappy
Hmm. Maybe in the sense that attractive people are more likely to be self confident than ugly people, and so be more confident and outgoing in an interview. Other than that, it would have to be a fairly bloody corrupt system if it was true. Certainly not the case at my school. Three of us got in, and we're all 'plain' all the pretty people got rejected...
*grins, evilly*

But you're referring to Oxford, right? At Cambridge we do things differently. :cool:
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Helenia
I wore mine to my interview (I think). And I still wear them most of the time, although I've got a different, funkier pair now.

They wanted moi, fugly glasses 'n' all. I was so touched :wink: Especially given that my interviewer would put Hugh Grant to shame...
shinyhappy
Hmm. Maybe in the sense that attractive people are more likely to be self confident than ugly people, and so be more confident and outgoing in an interview. Other than that, it would have to be a fairly bloody corrupt system if it was true. Certainly not the case at my school. Three of us got in, and we're all 'plain' all the pretty people got rejected...
*grins, evilly*

I don’t know how much confidence has to do with it. I was completely unconfident and clearly insecure during the whole interview blushing about a million times and not looking straight at the interviewer like I promised myself I would do! but I spoke loads and I think they felt sorry for me:redface:

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