What if my admissions director is plus-sized and hates what Brandy stands for? Or what if she’s one of those people who thinks all Brandy Melville workers are bitchy, dumb white girls? Brandy Melville has a terrible reputation now a days, especially with all the campaigns about body positivity. I have a nearly perfect SAT score and a great GPA but I’m worried that working there might weaken my resume. What do you think?
Maybe if your AO was young and knew what Brandy Melville was. Even then it would be rather petty. Probably not much of a risk, though I wouldn’t want that on my app at a school like Oberlin.
IMO, any school that dings you for making your own money while in high school, has the problem not you. If being a trendy teenager that sells other trendy teenagers clothes is unacceptable to a college, they are really narrowing their applicant pool.
Good luck & aloha. 
The admissions staff has maybe heard of Abercrombie and Fitch and their lack of large sizes, but you are assuming too much of a certain type of cultural knowledge that not everyone has. It is good to have a job and get good grades at the same time.
This is not a problem. A job is a good thing.
I think you should give people the benefit of the doubt. You said the company has a bad rep. Then you fear a plus sized admissions officer might then have an issue – because you presume plus sized people will tend to respond with bigotry and unprofessionalism?
I’ve never heard of the place. But any school that would reject you because of a legit retail job is not the school for you, right?
For what it’s worth I’d never heard of it.
Unless your essays are all about how you embody the “brandy Melville ethos”, having a job and keeping it would be seen as a positive.
It will not affect your admission. However, if you want to write an essay about feeling conflicted about working there – you like the job and need the job, but you agree with the recent criticisms of the company – that can make for an interesting essay.
FWIW, there are only 22 stores in the United States, mostly in California and NY. Interestingly, there are almost as many in Europe as there are in the U.S. I counted 19, including in such places as Florence (2, actually), Berlin, and Paris. I’d bet that 90% or more of Americans never even heard of Brandy Melville. It’s not a mass-market mall store.
Never heard of it.
Never heard of it either. Are the posters who are responding as though they have heard of it actually heard of it or were they just going off of OP’s post and/or googled it before commenting?
I’ve heard of it, it’s for teenage girls, and my teen wears some BM stuff. It doesn’t have a negative image, but I think everything is in one size, which is small. It is cheap and cheerful stuff. If there is an issue, which I really think there isn’t, it is that only small people can shop there. But it doesn’t publicize itself as something it isn’t. It’s kind of a word-of-mouth brand.
@iwannabe_Brown not only have I heard of it, I wear it. 
I rescued a Brandy Melville super-loose fitting sundress from my D’s Goodwill bag. Although I am not the age or size of their target market, it makes a very cute swimsuit cover-up.
Never heard of it, my D has never ordered or shopped there.
Do I detect a very slight undercurrent of disdain for “plus-size” people? But all the others are correct. Don’t worry about it.
I can’t imagine that having a job would hurt your chances.
I know what Brandy Melville is (I’m 17), but I don’t think it’s as well-known as, say, Abercrombie.