<p>If any of you Yale acceptees (applicants too) have made activity resumes and would be willing to share the format with me, I'd greatly appreciate it. You can just e-mail me the text file</p>
<p>I don't think it really matters, as long as it's clear and not clogged with extraneous information. Supposedly they prefer that you format it in a way similiar to the form on the common app (position, hours per week, etc.)</p>
<p>I just did </p>
<p>The Activity School Years Hrs/Week/Wks per yr Positions/Honors/Description</p>
<p>that is pretty standard</p>
<p>is the point of having a resume then just to be able to describe the activities more than you are able to on the common app?</p>
<p>Yes, that's the point of a resume. Here is the format of the one I sent:</p>
<p>Name
Address
Telephone number
E-mail address</p>
<p>EDUCATION[ul]
[li] September 1999 - present: Name of high school and high school graduation expected date[/li][li] Date: Any special education, such as special programs within your high school or summer programs[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE[ul]
[<em>] Date: what you did; any sort of leadership role
[</em>] Date: etc. etc.[/ul]</p>
<p>That's the basic format throughout the entire document. Feel free to elaborate on any of your activities. Format isn't really a huge deal; just keep it clean, concise, and consistent (lol alliteration totally not planned). Other categories that I included are: extracurricular activities, athletics, and adittional activities/interests.</p>
<p>If you want an excellent guideline, read Michele A. Hern</p>
<p>I made my resume in the form of a cookbook......my positions were the ingredients and the procedure was the things we did in those clubs. I also tried to tie in my italian heritage by making italian recipes. I dont know if it will fly....i thought it was cool.....i'll find out i guess.</p>
<p>Interesting...what does your guidance counselor think of it?</p>
<p>lol......she doesnt speak enough english to tell me ;)</p>
<p>All of my teachers loved it though.....i took these really good photos along with them. Photography is a hobby of mine so i figured i'd let them know. For example, for my band picture....I had my brother hold my trombone up and caught his silhouette as the sun went down. It looks like me playing it becuz you cant see his features.</p>
<p>I basically tried to let them know 4 things about me:
1. More about what I do in my clubs
2. My family and our heritage
3. Some of my interests like cooking and photography
4. To show some creativity that will hopefully make me stand out from everyone else.</p>
<p>wait why are you guys sending in resumes? Are we supposed to? Did I miss something?!?!?! Freakin out :(</p>
<p>you dont have to.....they say if you want to, you may. We're just doing it cuz there wasnt enough room in the common app to actually say anything about our extras.</p>
<p>I made tried to mine look similar to the one on the common app...</p>
<p>beechbum114, I think ur activity essay will irritate the adcoms it's not clear and concise. I mean, they only have 20 minutes to read each app, and if they have to spend 20 minutes trying to decipher your cook-book, they will be very irritated.</p>
<p>Check Out the book : Rock Hard Apps. This is where I got ideas for my activity sheet which they call a "brag sheet". Sending out one is a good idea- they show examples of kids who should've got into top choice schools but got waitlisted because they were lazy on the activity section.</p>
<p>I wrote the cookbook like the common app. In the common app i also tried to put as much info as possible. To tell you the truth, the whole process is a crapshoot so if they dont want me there then theyre not gonna accept me anyway.</p>
<p>ahhh, is this "activity list/resume" recommended?</p>
<p>is there anything wrong with just applying online through the common app?</p>
<p>haha i'm sorta panicking b/c i just finished filling out the common app. I haven't submitted it yet, though. I agree there isn't enough room, so I just used their spot to list my ECs and explained what they were exactly in the additional comments slots under awards and whatnot. is this okay?</p>
<p>....or should I make an activities sheet like ppl here?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Only if you have a lot of awards/activities that you couldn't fit onto the common app. For example, if you listed one activity and a corresponding award, but you've received five (important) awards in that activity, you would want to send an activity sheet.</p>
<p>Yeah, I have, especially in debate and forensics. That's why I used the additional/explanation section on the common app that you're supposed to fill in anything you couldn't fit to explain those awards.</p>
<p>That's another thing, I sorta explained them, not just listed them. Is that a problem? I don't want to be too verbose and annoy the reader.</p>
<p>If it's a particularly unique activity/competition, then it would be good to explain. But if it's stuff that they'll probably be familiar with, such as debate competitions, there's no need to elaborate.</p>
<p>I see, the thing is I hate the way the common app is organized. It doesn't even have a section for Awards/Honors. It just gives you an extra page at the end that says to write about your awards/honors in paragraphs (in paragraphs!? do the admissions officers really want to read more paragraphs!?"). I was thinking about making such an activities sheet just to provide some organization of my ECs and honors/awards. If I don't, then I must resort to fitting everything on the extra pages, which automatically makes it extremely disorganized. On top of that, there still isn't enough room to list everything. </p>
<p>If I submit the common app, then can I mail in a typed activity resume/sheet of my own? Is that encouraged or discouraged?</p>