Is preference given to attractive interview candidates?

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People are naturally drawn to things they find attractive. Just present yourself in the most favorable way possible and work on your interview skills.
 
partypantss said:
I know me and my friends who are in engineering all weight lift and work out a lot while my friends who are in more "relaxed" majors don't work out at all.
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Engineers...lifting? Pretty sure I was one of two people of the 80 engineers in my department who lifted. Ask the ten most swolbraham lincoln bros in the gym what their majors are. I can almost guarantee you none of them will be engineering.
 
If I look like Godfrey Gao, I supposed a full tuition scholarship to Harvard is an acceptable offer. Darn you genetic!
 
Poit said:
Yes, it's called the halo effect.

In short, people tend to perceive attractive people as more trustworthy, kind, intelligent, sociable ect.
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"Short."
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was the other way around actually. Sometimes, if a person is TOO attractive, they come off as arrogant, cocky, full of themselves, overly confident, not very nice, etc etc.
 
strictlyanon said:
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the other way around actually. Sometimes, if a person is TOO attractive, they come off as arrogant, cocky, full of themselves, overly confident, not very nice, etc etc.
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Only if their actions/facial expressions/mannerisms reflect that. I don't think people make those judgements based on nothing but looks.
 
Appearances are not the only way to be attractive. You can be funny and/or charming...
 
Absolutely. My interview day was more like a beauty pageant for the chicks and a power-lifting competition for the bro's.
 
Pusheen said:
Fair enough. I've noticed this particularly among women. And I say that as a female.
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I think that's why I remember reading that guys being attractive will help them in general (in terms of getting employment/hired) but that if a girl is too good looking, it will in fact work against her (both because other girls' perceptions/jealous and that guys' perceptions will be that she's not as serious/intelligent/capable)

Although I think girls will judge other girls for being TOO dolled up, which you shouldn't be anyway for a med school interview. My impression is you just need to be clean, not decked out in full gear.
 
How about for women lol?? How short is short? Please don't tell me 5'2 😱
 
musicalfeet said:
I think that's why I remember reading that guys being attractive will help them in general (in terms of getting employment/hired) but that if a girl is too good looking, it will in fact work against her (both because other girls' perceptions/jealous and that guys' perceptions will be that she's not as serious/intelligent/capable)
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Yeah, but I think it gets balanced out by all the pretty girls who actually do get hired because of their looks. I'd say it's about even across the board, with hotter girls having maybe a slight advantage.
 
Thermometer said:
Engineers...lifting? Pretty sure I was one of two people of the 80 engineers in my department who lifted. Ask the ten most swolbraham lincoln bros in the gym what their majors are. I can almost guarantee you none of them will be engineering.
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Business and Kinesiology majors lift at my school
 
What is attractiveness? Even if you go with impressions alone, most of it is skill and hard work with like 30% or so being genetics at most. (IDK, this isn't quantifiable!)

A witty, well dressed, and fit person with a good voice and charisma will always look better than the airhead klutz with bewbs.
 
Thermometer said:
Engineers...lifting? Pretty sure I was one of two people of the 80 engineers in my department who lifted. Ask the ten most swolbraham lincoln bros in the gym what their majors are. I can almost guarantee you none of them will be engineering.
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Different experiences I guess.. My major lifting buddy is an EE and he is swole ripped AND shredded. Dude eats nothing but chicken and protein powder and can spend 2+ hours just lifting in a day. Its his favorite activity.. I WILL say that in my experience aerospace engineers, in fact, do not lift.

Overall your actually probably right though, I guess my experience has been unusual.
 
partypantss said:
Yeah.. I would say its like, 80% genetics honestly.. Your face is your face, not much you can do about it.
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Look at celebs like Jonah Hill. Good looking happy guy when he's slim, but a ball of fat not many people can like when he's obese. And I'm sure you know plenty of people like that. I'm also friends with a family of cool guys who are all very round and look like human billiard balls. However, one of them trained everyday to become a good swimmer/triathlete and now he looks like a knockoff Michael Phelps. handsome looks and everything. Did his face change? None of the 'features' did, making him look "exactly the same" in that regard. But it's also clean, fit, and very athletic-looking, which made it much much more "attractive".
 
ElCapone said:
To quote our resident neurosurgeon:





What's considered "short" for men? Anything below 5' 7"?
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I haven't read the entire thread so take this for what it's worth

The main question is "Is preference given to attractive interview candidates?" Obviously the answer is yes. It is another factor on the application. My favorite hypothetical is to create 2 applicants, all other things being equal, who would match? In this setting, always the more attractive resident.

That being said, and again I didn't read the thread but I speculate from what I'm quoting "what's considered 'short' for a man? Anything below 5'7"? You guys are trying to inflate one another's egos or piss further on those who are concerned.

Let me tell you this story and explain "attraction" from a program's point of view. 1) metrics: grades/scores/letters/fit 2) Physical/sexual attractiveness. You are a fool if you think 2 does not play any role. As a residency program, the goal is to find someone who can come in to the current system, learn it, thrive, do well, perhaps change it slightly to make it better, and at the end of the day come out the other end a successful doctor. Plain Jane? Great! Victoria Secret model? Great!

What it comes down to is fit for the program, on all of those factors. We had an applicant who was, how shall we say it, ugly/overweight, a little malodorous. He came from an average program with poor scores. The guy was a juggernaut. He published everything. Huge papers. The interview was amazing, it was like talking to someone I knew for a while. At the end I felt like I was trying to sell my program (which I usually do), but sincerely. Like I might be offended if he gave me the impression he was considering other places. We ended up ranking him highly, despite his appearance, grade, and score issues.
 
neusu said:
I haven't read the entire thread so take this for what it's worth

The main question is "Is preference given to attractive interview candidates?" Obviously the answer is yes. It is another factor on the application. My favorite hypothetical is to create 2 applicants, all other things being equal, who would match? In this setting, always the more attractive resident.

That being said, and again I didn't read the thread but I speculate from what I'm quoting "what's considered 'short' for a man? Anything below 5'7"? You guys are trying to inflate one another's egos or piss further on those who are concerned.

Let me tell you this story and explain "attraction" from a program's point of view. 1) metrics: grades/scores/letters/fit 2) Physical/sexual attractiveness. You are a fool if you think 2 does not play any role. As a residency program, the goal is to find someone who can come in to the current system, learn it, thrive, do well, perhaps change it slightly to make it better, and at the end of the day come out the other end a successful doctor. Plain Jane? Great! Victoria Secret model? Great!

What it comes down to is fit for the program, on all of those factors. We had an applicant who was, how shall we say it, ugly/overweight, a little malodorous. He came from an average program with poor scores. The guy was a juggernaut. He published everything. Huge papers. The interview was amazing, it was like talking to someone I knew for a while. At the end I felt like I was trying to sell my program (which I usually do), but sincerely. Like I might be offended if he gave me the impression he was considering other places. We ended up ranking him highly, despite his appearance, grade, and score issues.
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QED
 
neusu said:
I haven't read the entire thread so take this for what it's worth

The main question is "Is preference given to attractive interview candidates?" Obviously the answer is yes. It is another factor on the application. My favorite hypothetical is to create 2 applicants, all other things being equal, who would match? In this setting, always the more attractive resident.

That being said, and again I didn't read the thread but I speculate from what I'm quoting "what's considered 'short' for a man? Anything below 5'7"? You guys are trying to inflate one another's egos or piss further on those who are concerned.

Let me tell you this story and explain "attraction" from a program's point of view. 1) metrics: grades/scores/letters/fit 2) Physical/sexual attractiveness. You are a fool if you think 2 does not play any role. As a residency program, the goal is to find someone who can come in to the current system, learn it, thrive, do well, perhaps change it slightly to make it better, and at the end of the day come out the other end a successful doctor. Plain Jane? Great! Victoria Secret model? Great!

What it comes down to is fit for the program, on all of those factors. We had an applicant who was, how shall we say it, ugly/overweight, a little malodorous. He came from an average program with poor scores. The guy was a juggernaut. He published everything. Huge papers. The interview was amazing, it was like talking to someone I knew for a while. At the end I felt like I was trying to sell my program (which I usually do), but sincerely. Like I might be offended if he gave me the impression he was considering other places. We ended up ranking him highly, despite his appearance, grade, and score issues.
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That's all nice and good but I just finished climbing down the mountain from my monthly consult with Brodin the Swolefather and this is what he said:

First, thy shall be tall. 6'2 Master Race

Thy Clavicles shall be broad like the branches of an Oak, and you will shoulder-mog your competitors to oblivion.

Thy wilt also done get well shredded. Thy cheekbones will cut open the sky, revealing a vision of abs like the mountains of the moon that lesser men will ponder and women shalt swoon under.

Before the sun setteth today, thou will attend the Iron Temple and pray for gainz. Go, now, Brometheus, and when you return a moon from now you will have made all kindz of gainz, else you will be cast down and get not an M.D., but a D.N.P like 2014 Kobe.
 
Going to get plastic surgery on my face so I can increase my chances of becoming a plastic surgeon.
 
Thermometer said:
Engineers...lifting? Pretty sure I was one of two people of the 80 engineers in my department who lifted. Ask the ten most swolbraham lincoln bros in the gym what their majors are. I can almost guarantee you none of them will be engineering.
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Uhhh at my school, most of the people I've seen in the gym actually are engineers. I'm one of them. There's some strange correlation between athletics and choosing hard majors.
 
dokte said:
In all seriousness, yes but I think it's more important to focus on your interviewing skills. Yes because we're humans living in a sick society.
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you straight up have the greatest avatar every created. definitely the best angle.
 
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