overweight? Good luck getting into grad school

[RacinReaver]

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Jacob Burmeister, a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology at Bowling Green State University, and his fellow researchers analyzed the grad school applications of 97 applicants, and found that candidates with a higher body-mass index who were asked to do a face-to-face interview had lower admission rates than thinner applicants and overweight applicants who didn’t have to do in-person interviews.

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<p>So this isn’t necessarily an article about only graduate school acceptances, as most programs out there don’t do interviews prior to admissions.</p>