College Resume

Applying to College
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<p>Hello everyone, I have a few questions about things to put on my college resume.</p>

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<li><p>Do I need to put a short explanation explaining my extracurriculars or do colleges for the most part already know what they are?</p></li>
<li><p>For my volunteering section should I put the exact number of hours I volunteered or just my volunteer group and place?</p></li>
<li><p>Under skills should I put public speaking along with my languages (I did numerous years of debate)?</p></li>
<li><p>Should I put my academic information on it such as gpa, rank, sat 1/2 scores, or ap scores?</p></li>
<li><p>Should I put things down I only started doing senior year or something I only did for two years?</p></li>
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<p>Thank you, for answering these questions keep in mind I'm applying to ivy league schools and trying to make sure this is perfect.</p>

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<p>Why not just use the Common App?</p>

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<p>Because common app doesn’t have enough room for everything I would like to put down.</p>

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<p>Point 1: If your HS calls it something special or does something differently you may want to explain.</p>

<p>Point 4: If this is in addition to your normal application I would say no as those are on your transcript/score reports.</p>

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<p>If you are using common application, I got a bad news for you. You can not upload a resum</p>

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<p>Aha! And there’s your problem. What you want to put down, and what the admissions officers want to know, are two different things . . . and, in that case, you should defer to what the admissions officers want to know. Stop worrying about what you want, and focus on what they want.</p>

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<p>I’ll expand on dodgersmom’s post. HS students overestimate the level of detail that they think colleges want. Ultra detailed explanations, to the minute vol hour tallies, that 11th super-meaningful EC – colleges have seen it all and it doesn’t matter to them.</p>

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<p>Ah understood thanks.</p>