<p>How detailed should I be when sending a resume to Penn?</p>
<p>You shouldn't be sending a resume. A resume is for the workplace. Send an activities sheet at most.</p>
<p>ah gd, here we go again.</p>
<p>I will quote the Vault guides when I say that employers (and by extension I suppose admissions) will take about ten seconds to look over a resume. If you have an activities sheet/resume, make your accomplishments stand out very quickly and clearly, and don't bog it down with pages and pages of minutae</p>
<p>i know this topic has been beaten to the ground, but i still don't quite get it. if you don't have an extensive EC's that need to be explained in detail, i assume it'd be better to just stick with the little space on the application. this won't hurt you at all right? will you be looked upon worse than someone who did send in an activities sheet?</p>
<p>i would much prefer to not send in an extra sheet because i'd have a feeling i'd be overly redundant.</p>
<p>exactly! if you feel like anything is remotely redundant, it probably is</p>
<p>i agree with michaelJ. If you send somehitng in that is redundant alll that you are acocmplishing is irriating the admissions officers and that is the last thing that you want to do.</p>
<p>when looking at our resume, employers judge you from these things:</p>
<p>School attended
GPA/SAT info
if you have a standout job or club. 90% of the stuff kids list they wont care about.</p>
<p>There is no point in being overly detailed or listing 10 different clubs, they dont give a ****. your job was either impressive or it wasnt, no one is impressed that you were assistant chair of 4 different clubs.</p>
<p>Mine was around five pages. But it wasn't bs. Make sure that what you want to write about is worth writing about. bottom line. The ECs you participate in are only as good as the way in which you write about them. Look great on paper. Use as many pages as you want, just make sure everything you add looks great.</p>