Interview with beard

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There are quite a few threads on this topic already, many of them quite recent, you might want to check those out
 
Here's my n = 1:

I had two interviews. First one I went clean shaved and got accepted. Second one I went neatly trimmed and got waitlisted.
 
As long as it looks you've freshly taken care of it then you probably gonna look more confident and mature. If it's neckbeard status and patchy all over the place then I don't recommend keeping it. Having facial hair isn't inappropriate, it's natural and we're starting to become grown ass men
 
If your beard looks bad, shave it (if its patchy at all, it looks bad. Trust me). Othwrwise keep it
 
redsox93 said:
For what it's worth, I'm a reapplicant this cycle who got rejected last cycle. Last cycle I shaved, this cycle I didn't. Coincidence? Maybe, but I'll let you decide.
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Beard life!
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gyngyn said:
Shave (unless you have a religious imperative).
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WedgeDawg said:
If you have a good reason to not shave, don't.

If your reason is because you don't want to, then shave.
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Seriously this question again?

My secondary picture has my glorious, sexy beard in it. Got 15+ interview invites.

When I went to my first two interviews I shaved for them (haven't heard back from them). Didn't shave for the rest and I'm sitting at almost 10 acceptances.

Now am I saying my beard is the reason for my acceptances? Of course I am cause that's 100% why.

I'm kidding but I'm proof that it literally DOES NOT MATTER WHATSOEVER AS LONG AS YOURE WELL GROOMED. there is a way to have facial hair and look professional and sharp.

I hate this question.

Just be yourself and people will gravitate towards you. Why premeds feel the need to change every detail about themselves to please others is beyond me. If you have a full beard and it's well groomed is fine. If it looks like someone just shaved their pubes and landed on your face then shave it. It's literally that simple.

You know what people need to work on? Combing their hair. Why you adcom's don't constantly say this is beyond me-- half of interviewees I saw didn't comb their hair!!!!!

THIS MAKES ME GRUMPY THAT WE FOCUS ON BEARDS WHEN PEOPLE CANT EVEN COMB THEIR HAIR

End rant. This is very dear to me as I've had my heard for half my life and it's an important part of I identity and I feel comfortable with it. The fact I felt any anxiety at all over it was so silly and I blame bad advice from here for that.

Thank you and good night y'all. Let your beards be glorious and your hair be combed.
 
GrumpyGus said:
Seriously this question again?

My secondary picture has my glorious, sexy beard in it. Got 15+ interview invites.

When I went to my first two interviews I shaved for them (haven't heard back from them). Didn't shave for the rest and I'm sitting at almost 10 acceptances.

Now am I saying my beard is the reason for my acceptances? Of course I am cause that's 100% why.

I'm kidding but I'm proof that it literally DOES NOT MATTER WHATSOEVER AS LONG AS YOURE WELL GROOMED. there is a way to have facial hair and look professional and sharp.

I hate this question.

Just be yourself and people will gravitate towards you. Why premeds feel the need to change every detail about themselves to please others is beyond me. If you have a full beard and it's well groomed is fine. If it looks like someone just shaved their pubes and landed on your face then shave it. It's literally that simple.

You know what people need to work on? Combing their hair. Why you adcom's don't constantly say this is beyond me-- half of interviewees I saw didn't comb their hair!!!!!

THIS MAKES ME GRUMPY THAT WE FOCUS ON BEARDS WHEN PEOPLE CANT EVEN COMB THEIR HAIR

End rant. This is very dear to me as I've had my heard for half my life and it's an important part of I identity and I feel comfortable with it. The fact I felt any anxiety at all over it was so silly and I blame bad advice from here for that.

Thank you and good night y'all. Let your beards be glorious and your hair be combed.
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I don't much care. Others feel differently.
Everyone has a grooming pet peeve. There is no sense risking it for no reason.
 
GrumpyGus said:
Seriously this question again?

My secondary picture has my glorious, sexy beard in it. Got 15+ interview invites.

When I went to my first two interviews I shaved for them (haven't heard back from them). Didn't shave for the rest and I'm sitting at almost 10 acceptances.

Now am I saying my beard is the reason for my acceptances? Of course I am cause that's 100% why.

I'm kidding but I'm proof that it literally DOES NOT MATTER WHATSOEVER AS LONG AS YOURE WELL GROOMED. there is a way to have facial hair and look professional and sharp.

I hate this question.

Just be yourself and people will gravitate towards you. Why premeds feel the need to change every detail about themselves to please others is beyond me. If you have a full beard and it's well groomed is fine. If it looks like someone just shaved their pubes and landed on your face then shave it. It's literally that simple.

You know what people need to work on? Combing their hair. Why you adcom's don't constantly say this is beyond me-- half of interviewees I saw didn't comb their hair!!!!!

THIS MAKES ME GRUMPY THAT WE FOCUS ON BEARDS WHEN PEOPLE CANT EVEN COMB THEIR HAIR

End rant. This is very dear to me as I've had my heard for half my life and it's an important part of I identity and I feel comfortable with it. The fact I felt any anxiety at all over it was so silly and I blame bad advice from here for that.

Thank you and good night y'all. Let your beards be glorious and your hair be combed.
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I know you said you're kidding but I think there might be something to this. I've gotten into 100% of the schools I've interviewed at with a beard and rejected from 100% of the schools without. We need more numbers to prove this is statistically significant. This could be groundbreaking
 
GrumpyGus said:
Seriously this question again?

My secondary picture has my glorious, sexy beard in it. Got 15+ interview invites.

When I went to my first two interviews I shaved for them (haven't heard back from them). Didn't shave for the rest and I'm sitting at almost 10 acceptances.

Now am I saying my beard is the reason for my acceptances? Of course I am cause that's 100% why.

I'm kidding but I'm proof that it literally DOES NOT MATTER WHATSOEVER AS LONG AS YOURE WELL GROOMED. there is a way to have facial hair and look professional and sharp.

I hate this question.

Just be yourself and people will gravitate towards you. Why premeds feel the need to change every detail about themselves to please others is beyond me. If you have a full beard and it's well groomed is fine. If it looks like someone just shaved their pubes and landed on your face then shave it. It's literally that simple.

You know what people need to work on? Combing their hair. Why you adcom's don't constantly say this is beyond me-- half of interviewees I saw didn't comb their hair!!!!!

THIS MAKES ME GRUMPY THAT WE FOCUS ON BEARDS WHEN PEOPLE CANT EVEN COMB THEIR HAIR

End rant. This is very dear to me as I've had my heard for half my life and it's an important part of I identity and I feel comfortable with it. The fact I felt any anxiety at all over it was so silly and I blame bad advice from here for that.

Thank you and good night y'all. Let your beards be glorious and your hair be combed.
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In all likelihood it won't matter. But it might. You never know who you're going to be interviewing with and what prejudices they might hold. It's safest to shave if you don't have a good reason not to, but if you don't it will probably be fine too. If someone is worried enough to ask this question, I will always recommend to shave. But if someone isn't worried and doesn't ask, and interviews without shaving, it will in all likelihood be fine.
 
GrumpyGus said:
Seriously this question again?

My secondary picture has my glorious, sexy beard in it. Got 15+ interview invites.

When I went to my first two interviews I shaved for them (haven't heard back from them). Didn't shave for the rest and I'm sitting at almost 10 acceptances.

Now am I saying my beard is the reason for my acceptances? Of course I am cause that's 100% why.

I'm kidding but I'm proof that it literally DOES NOT MATTER WHATSOEVER AS LONG AS YOURE WELL GROOMED. there is a way to have facial hair and look professional and sharp.

I hate this question.

Just be yourself and people will gravitate towards you. Why premeds feel the need to change every detail about themselves to please others is beyond me. If you have a full beard and it's well groomed is fine. If it looks like someone just shaved their pubes and landed on your face then shave it. It's literally that simple.

You know what people need to work on? Combing their hair. Why you adcom's don't constantly say this is beyond me-- half of interviewees I saw didn't comb their hair!!!!!

THIS MAKES ME GRUMPY THAT WE FOCUS ON BEARDS WHEN PEOPLE CANT EVEN COMB THEIR HAIR

End rant. This is very dear to me as I've had my heard for half my life and it's an important part of I identity and I feel comfortable with it. The fact I felt any anxiety at all over it was so silly and I blame bad advice from here for that.

Thank you and good night y'all. Let your beards be glorious and your hair be combed.
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redsox93 said:
I know you said you're kidding but I think there might be something to this. I've gotten into 100% of the schools I've interviewed at with a beard and rejected from 100% of the schools without. We need more numbers to prove this is statistically significant. This could be groundbreaking
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if anything, SDN interview fashion advice shouldn't be taken as some absolute truth (including the debate on shaving vs keeping the beard). maybe use it as a helpful reference + some tips you didn't know but that's about it.
 
GrumpyGus said:
Seriously this question again?

My secondary picture has my glorious, sexy beard in it. Got 15+ interview invites.

When I went to my first two interviews I shaved for them (haven't heard back from them). Didn't shave for the rest and I'm sitting at almost 10 acceptances.

Now am I saying my beard is the reason for my acceptances? Of course I am cause that's 100% why.

I'm kidding but I'm proof that it literally DOES NOT MATTER WHATSOEVER AS LONG AS YOURE WELL GROOMED. there is a way to have facial hair and look professional and sharp.

I hate this question.

Just be yourself and people will gravitate towards you. Why premeds feel the need to change every detail about themselves to please others is beyond me. If you have a full beard and it's well groomed is fine. If it looks like someone just shaved their pubes and landed on your face then shave it. It's literally that simple.

You know what people need to work on? Combing their hair. Why you adcom's don't constantly say this is beyond me-- half of interviewees I saw didn't comb their hair!!!!!

THIS MAKES ME GRUMPY THAT WE FOCUS ON BEARDS WHEN PEOPLE CANT EVEN COMB THEIR HAIR

End rant. This is very dear to me as I've had my heard for half my life and it's an important part of I identity and I feel comfortable with it. The fact I felt any anxiety at all over it was so silly and I blame bad advice from here for that.

Thank you and good night y'all. Let your beards be glorious and your hair be combed.
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2 Things

1) thank you for making me feel more comfortable with keeping my beard
2) 10 acceptances Jesus Christ who are you
 
Rock the beard if it's nice! I am so glad I didn't listen to SDN wisdom last year: 5 interviews and 5 acceptances with a killer beard. What's more, is that 7 out of 10 of my interviewers had beards. Note: I also had a hard part shaved into my head with a design at one of my interviews. Plus, if you have a female interviewer while sporting a beard...science is on your side.

If someone is going to dislike you due to facial hair, they need to grow up. If hair wasn't supposed to be on a man's face it wouldn't grow there. But if that **** is straggly or spotty, shave it.

Nevertheless, your major concern should be centered around whether or not your face is symmetrical.
 
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Don't know that much about beards but if that one episode of Dexter's Lab is anything to go off of it's the beard on the inside that counts
 
Nietzsche's Barber said:
Rock the beard if it's nice! I am so glad I didn't listen to SDN wisdom last year: 5 interviews and 5 acceptances with a killer beard. What's more, is that 7 out of 10 of my interviewers had beards. Note: I also had a hard part shaved into my head with a design at one of my interviews. Plus, if you have a female interviewer while sporting a beard...science is on your side.

If someone is going to dislike you due to facial hair, they need to grow up. If hair wasn't supposed to be on a man's face it wouldn't grow there. But if that **** is straggly or spotty, shave it.

Nevertheless, your major concern should be centered around whether or not your face is symmetrical.
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followup- I currently have a fade in my beard (intentional, it fades into my hair) is this too douchey? Should I trim it down to one length?
 
GrumpyGus said:
Seriously this question again?
Just be yourself and people will gravitate towards you. Why premeds feel the need to change every detail about themselves to please others is beyond me. If you have a full beard and it's well groomed is fine.
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PREACH!
 
dguirg95 said:
followup- I currently have a fade in my beard (intentional, it fades into my hair) is this too douchey? Should I trim it down to one length?
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Is your hair dark? If done correctly (i.e. it matches your base fade) it can look sharp (especially with darker hair). I personally don't fade my beard because I like the contrast with my bald fade. But no, not douchey.

But gentlemen, a psa: please go to a legit barber. Last year, I saw far too many butchered heads of lettuce. Use those research skills and see what a fade is actually supposed to look like.
 
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If it's groomed, it'll be fine. I've had a beard (not for religious purposes, but because I like it and it looks good) for two years and I was not going to shave for interviews that may have little significance to my admissions decision. interviewed at 6 places and have gotten into all 6 thus far, with a confident beard.
 
people like you better with a beard
 
As long as you look neat, clean, and professional a beard won't hinder you.
If you have any doubts though, you should shave
 
dguirg95 said:
Does it really matter if I don't shave as long as I keep it clean?


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How attractive are you? If you're >7/10 then I don't think well groomed facial hair will hurt you...even if you're average/below average looking, well groomed facial hair could potentially help you, a co-resident of mine looked way better with the facial hair then without...can you please post your pic with/without facial hair so we can all decide?...haha, j/k...good luck with the interviews
 
Pretty sure you will have to shave eventually for your N95 fitting anyways.
 
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