<p>Do you guys still include things you did in high school on your resume?</p>
<p>At what point or age, do the things you did in high school become obsolete?</p>
<p>First- ask your college career center - they should be experts in resume making and could give you good answers to your resume specifics. That said, in general, you don’t want to use HS stuff on your resume in college. Freshman year: Ok to include HS bec. you don’t have much to go on. Sophomore: maybe, depending on what it is (something very prestigious, big, unique, very pertinent). Junior and Senior: probably not - unless it’s veryvery pertinent to the job/internship/thingy that you are trying for. That’s just my two cents.</p>
<p>I have as an “honor/award” at the bottom of my resume that I was a National Merit Finalist. I asked one of the career counselors here about a year ago if it was appropriate given it was something I qualified for back in the early 00’s and he said to keep it. I have long since removed any other mention of my high school years, however.</p>
<p>After your sophomore year, no.</p>
<p>I include anything reflecting my character for about two years, and anything directly related to my work for as long as it seems relevent. High school therefore dropped off my resume around my junior year of college - it passed the two year mark, and I wasn’t an engineer in high school.</p>
<p>Who is the intended audience for your resume? That makes a huge difference. If it’s a grad school, then leave off everything that happened before college, unless it was spectacular.</p>
<p>If it were relevant to graduate school then by all means include it. For instance, there is currently a high school student working in my lab. If he applies for graduate school in several years, he would want to include the work he is doing right now.</p>
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<p>Poor career counseling and total waste of space ink, IMO. Absolutely no one will care about the 2 hour psat you took xx years ago. (Bcos if they would care, they’d look at your SAT/GRE/GMAT/xx test scores instead.) </p>
<p>To the OP, the only thing that old that is worth keeping on is something to demonstrate continued passion in a topic that is relevant to the job/program to which you are applying. For example, you are now applying to a business program and you founded a successful business in your garage when you were 18…or, you are applying for a research position and you were an Intel Finalist in HS…</p>
<p>Career counselors tend to give bad, blanket advice. :(</p>
<p>I don’t for one reason:</p>
<p>It shows lack of improvement or successes beyond high school.</p>
<p>Unless you’re in your fresh or soph years, you have no excuse to rely on the accomplishments from high school, unless they are something ridiculous like Math Olympiad stuff.</p>
<p>Not at all. My CV education section lists my BA and MA, with grades, courses taken etc. Highschool is a distant memory. And I never got to girl I wanted. :(</p>
<p>100 posts btw!</p>
<p>I still have my Eagle Scout Award (Boy Scouts) listed under accomplishments, and I can say I’ve gotten positive feedback in job interviews on more than one occasion on that. So if you do have something significant that wasn’t recent it can still benefit you.</p>