A long time preparation is the key to enter universities, and now American scientists believe how much you weigh could influence whether you are accepted.
Researchers at Bowling State University found that overweight students, especially girls, are less likely to get into university than thinner students.
The group of psychologists studied almost a thousand applications for postgraduate courses and found that academics favoured thin candidates in face to face interviews.
However, there was no significant difference in success rates when conversations were carried out over the phone or when credentials were assessed remotely.
Psychologist Jacob Burmeister and colleagues at the university asked 97 applicants for psychology graduate programmes at more than 950 universities in the US whether they had an interview in person or on the phone, and whether or not they received an offer.
Dr Burmeister said: 'When we looked at that we could see a clear relation between their weight and offers of admission for those applicants who had had an in person interview.
'The success rate for people who had had no interview or a phone interview was pretty much equal, but when in-person interviews were involved, there was quite a bit of difference, even when applicants started out on equal footing with their grades, test scores and letters of recommendation.'
The study, which was published in the journal Obesity, also suggested the weight bias was stronger for female applicants.
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