Do people actually attach a resume to the common app?

I noticed that for a lot of colleges they let you attach an additional resume. Do a lot of people do this? I feel like I don’t have much to say considering I answered all the common app questions. Would it look bad if I attached nothing?

It is a pain for admissions if your resume is just repetition of what is in the common app. You definitely do not need a resume.

Some people do, but very few should. A resume should only be needed for the (very, very rare) students who have so many activities/accomplishments/awards that they can’t fit them in the Common App. Again, this is vanishingly rare, so if your resume has stuff that fits in your Common App, you shouldn’t attach it.

And to continue with what Marvin said, if you do have so much extra that it needs to be on an additional sheet, it had better be good. Not awards from middle school, or the time you volunteered for an hour at the school field day.

Haha indeed.