Good-looking high school students get better grades, increasing their chances of going to college and being economically successful. (click below to read more)
That’s the conclusion of a study based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, which began tracking almost 9,000 adolescents across the U.S. in the 1994–95 school year. Interviewers noted students’ attractiveness, obtained their grade records, and checked in on them periodically into their 20s and 30s. “The attractive do have a GPA advantage [over] the average,” Rachel Gordon of the University of Illinois at Chicago tells USA Today, but her study couldn’t establish whether that’s because teachers simply favor attractive faces or because the confidence that comes from being good-looking makes students perform better academically. Researchers found that while being better looking than average is a plus, being very attractive doesn’t help significantly more. Those “on the ugly side of looks,” however, are more depressed and have fewer friends than average-looking people, both in high school and young adulthood. There are some disadvantages to being attractive, the study found, including an increased likelihood of early sexual activity and drinking heavily, which researchers said can have negative impacts on academic performance.
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