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<p>now i'm actually going to read your work experiences and comment:</p>

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Shadow Cardiologist, grades 11 – 12, 5 hrs/ wk: I recorded stats, took vitals, helped submit procedural notes, and watched procedures such as stinting, arterial cleaning, ballooning, etc.

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<p>there is no such thing as stinting.....you mean "deploying stents" </p>

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Model at Abercrombie Kids in Aventura, Grades 11 – 12, 15 hrs/ wk: I work as a floor sales person and focus on selling and maintaining the clothes as well as the appearance of the store.

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<p>model?? sounds like you were just a sales person</p>

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Computer Repair/ Home Networking, grades 9 – 12, 10 hrs/ wk: I upgrade hardware and internal components of personal computers as well as upgrade software and maintain home and office network integrity. All of the necessary skills were self taught early in 9th grade. My Clientele consists of neighbors, realtors, salesmen, and other students.</p>

<p>Xbox Customization and Repair, grades 9 – 12, 20 hrs/ wk: I upgrade/swap/install internal components (hard drive, motherboards, DVD-drives, etc), reprogram user interface, network systems to home computers, and repair cooling and circuit problems. All programming and soldering/circuitry skills were self taught while mother was pregnant in 9th grade. I made additional income for the family by offering my skills and services to friends, family, students, and online communities.</p>

<p>Cellular Telephone Repair and Modification, grades 10 – 11, 5 hrs/ wk: I would use programming knowledge to edit the SEEM, unlock phones to all carriers, and flash/reprogram new user interfaces. Skills were self taught after receiving an extremely crippled cell phone in 10th grade. Customers were students and neighbors looking to use unhindered cellular telephones and people looking to switch carriers.

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<p>clearly all three of these can be combined</p>

<p>So there you go, that probably cuts it down significantly. Also I dont really think you have looked at the columbia app. There is a place where you can list these (without explanation of course)...not that any of them need explanation anyhow though, they all seem quite straight forward. </p>

<p>Also, you do realize that you claim to have spent 60 hours a week working in 11th grade!!! (if you aren't aware a full time job is 40 hours a week and i find it hard to believe that you worked the equivalent of 1.5 full time jobs while in high school.</p>

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<p>the job title, on record, is model. </p>

<p>I have already corrected the spelling of 'stents' instead of stints.</p>

<p>Those 3 items you listed are all different and all required a different skill set. They all have commonalities, but they are different non the less. </p>

<p>Also, 4 hours on sat and 4 hours on sunday for the xbox stuff. 1.5 - 2 hours a day for the home networking. The shadowing was done during the summer and is still done on my days of no school. Abercrombia has 5 hour shifts 3 times weekly. and finally, about 45 minutes to an hour a day for cell phone. Thats not too unreasonable. </p>

<p>Also, they are only straight forward because i wrote a small paragraph about each. simply writing XBOX modifications and repair wouldnt always imply internal knowledge of the system as well as the knowledge and skill to write code for it</p>

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<p>Dude, you're totally missing the boat. All the crap you're planning to list on your resume is frigging boring to read. I'm a tech/gadget geek and reading your stuff makes me dizzy. The adcoms don't have the time to spend 45 minutes reading about every cell phone you unlocked or whatever the heck you did, nor would they give a crap even if they had the time. You're applying TO COLLEGE, not for a job as a cell phone repairman or something. It's not important that you describe in acute detail every single thing you did, and had to know, for every job you've had. You want to show Columbia that you're hard working, dedicated, well rounded, have passions, etc. You can do that in much less space.</p>

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a better way to put that is: until your junior year of college your resume should be AT MOST one page.

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<p>More like, until you're 40 or something, your resume should be at most one page. Of course, if you're in academia, it's appropriate to have a CV listing every publication and speech in your life.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the information, but why dont you help me fix it rather than tell me mine sucks. Obviuosly im having a little difficulty writing this resume and any HELP would be useful. Telling me that i shuoldnt be detailed about my jobs is ok, but then telling me that they dont care is another story. Should i toss it? I need guidance, not just criticism.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>When i had the bullets ( a decision i made to make the whole things easier to read) people were telling me its not detailed enough and it paragraph everything. What do you think i should do</p>

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why dont you help me fix it rather than tell me mine sucks.

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<p>I'm not going to rewrite your resume for you. People far less qualified than me get paid a lot of money to do that sort of thing. (Not that I'd do it even if you paid me, as I don't need the money and have no interest in doing it.)</p>

<p>I've told you why yours sucks, what not to do and what you want to show. You can figure it out from there.</p>

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telling me that they dont care is another story.

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<p>They care generally about what jobs you had. They don't need to know the excruciating details for every single thing you've done in the last four years. You need to make a judgment call about what's most important and how you want to present yourself to Columbia.</p>

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What do you think i should do

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<p>Aren't you not supposed to use a resume, anyway? I don't know the rules, but don't bother if you're not supposed to.</p>

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<p>So just saying what i did is enough. i dont need to give details about it? If thats the case then im supposed to be assuming they understand the skills involved in whatever im presenting to them or are they just gonna read the title and take it for what it sounds like without looking into it and then possibly underestimated the skill required?</p>

<p>Thanks for the help.</p>

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<p>the question still remains as well....HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE COLUMBIA APPLICATION?!</p>

<p>looking at it might help you realize how you are asked to present these things within the confines of the application. For instance there is a question that asks you "what did you do last summer" ....there you will clearly write in the one line they give you about whichever job you did then....etc etc etc.....look at the application first so we're on the same page!!</p>

<p>And yes, the main point of advice is: resume is probably unnecessary </p>

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More like, until you're 40 or something, your resume should be at most one page. Of course, if you're in academia, it's appropriate to have a CV listing every publication and speech in your life.

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<p>hey! mine is already bleeding a bit past a page and i sure as hell am not 40! (it is only because of abstracts though)</p>