brag sheet / scholarship resume - photo ok?

Parents Forum
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Helping my rising senior (class of 2018) create a “brag sheet” for applications, scholarships, and requests for recommendationss.

Plan on keeping it to one page. Wondering if ok to include one or more school photos, thumbnail size. A pro-shot image from band or track.

Also, really having a problem labelling it a “brag sheet.” Would like to just include the student name, contact info, at the top, and then - “Awards, Accomplishments, and Recognition”.

Thoughts?

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No photo!

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They can now do Zeemee to upload a short video to their application

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I would not do a photo. If the college allows videos for art or sports supplements, that is of course okay.

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Do it more in a resume format and do not put a picture on it.

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I think the photo thing applies when your teachers/GC have 400 + kids. Think of it as a mug shot. At fall PTCs some teachers appear to have no idea who some of these kids are. I assume it is only for the high school teachers to use to refer to for reference letters vs something used for actual applications.

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The school counselor will have your school picture ON your school record. That counselor doesn’t need your pic of resume.

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Not all schools keep photos.

This is something he should do himself and you only bless the format, brevity, make sure he didn’t forget something etc. I know some hs ask for a brag sheet, usually for the GC, who may have many students. But it makes me uneasy to think a kid needs to “brag” to a teacher who supposedly knows him well enough to praise his class performance.

If you think the rest of it (say, the math teacher doesn’t realize he’s in band,) well, that’s not what the teacher LoR is about. And most outside entities, unless they ask, don’t want a photo that could influence them.

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Some teachers don’t know the student that well.

In our school system, all classes are one semester long. You may have a different teacher for the fall semester of chemistry than you do for the spring, and the same applies to every other academic subject. Some kids don’t have even one 10th or 11th grade teacher who had them in class for a full year, yet somebody has to write recommendations for these kids. The teachers may need all the help they can get.