Word: overweightness
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Meza was cheerful. Five years ago, he said, he was overweight and out of shape. "I picked running because I'm not athletic at all. I couldn't do anything else. In Chile I got kicked out of soccer class." Now, down from 180 Ibs. to 145 Ibs., he covers at least 15 miles a day. "It's great," he said...
Since half of the Harvard interviewers are women, negative reaction to physical appearance would be unlikely to result in discrimination against overweight women, she said...
Mayer, an authority on nutrition, said yesterday a study he conducted at Radcliffe and Wellesley showed that overweight women are one third as likely to be admitted as women of average weight, despite comparable grades, board scores and recommendations...
...Overweight men faced less discrimination, but still have only two-thirds the normal chance of being admitted, Mayer said. Although the study was done in the 1960s, he believes the results are still valid, he said...
...discrimination is a result of a negative impression overweight people tend to make on interviewers, Mayer said. In colleges like Berkeley which do not interview applicants, there is no discrimination, he added...