Does being good looking help your chances?

In exeter? What subject? (n plz non of that i must protect the blah blah blah of the blah blah thing. If they had the guts to do it (blatant discrimination) then they should be found out.)

i don't hate hot people, i just think this seems kinda wrong... unless the girl was being interviewed for Miss United Kingdom

It's a well-known fact (i.e. a well-known rumour) that St Catherine's in Cambridge deliberately stopped accepting charismatic students who would do a lot of extracurricular activities, in order to push up their rating in the Thompson table. The result is that Catz is full of geeks, but gets a hell of a lot of firsts.

Why else do Cambridge ask for photos along with the CAF?

Wah, I hope not! I'm going to St Catz.. I'd call myself a geek, but more in the 'OMG I love X-Men' kind of way rather than the study-mad type.. I definitely qualify for the 'loads of extra-curricular activities' type (my personal statement became a list of clubs and societies halfway through and I still missed stuff out because I couldn't fit it in), and I stuck novel-writing as one of my hobbies on there, and novel-writing is really quite a full-time hobby.. I still got in.

Yeah, but you're hot though. Being good looking helps you get in. Allegedly.

A better question is: should we be positively discriminating in favour of attractive people? After all, they're currently an underrepresented minority.