Format of Extracurricular Resume?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Florida State University
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I’m working on my application, and it says I’m strongly encouraged to submit a résumé of the following:

  1. Extracurricular, personal, and volunteer activities; community service work; and employment.
  2. Any special talents and awards that you have received.
  3. Any programs that you participated in to help prepare you for college (e.g. University Outreach, Talent Search, Upward Bound, etc.)
  4. Any family or work obligations that might have prevented you from participating in extracurricular activities.

But I am not sure how to format it. Should I make headings for things like ECs and community service and then describe? Do I just list my ECs or do I briefly describe them? Thanks for any input!

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In the past the form has said how you should format it when you get to that section. Typically it suggests just bullet points. I don’t think you’re really expected or supposed to really expand/explain things on that form but it may be different now.

Even though it was several years ago, when I did my resume I organized things by group, basically in the list that they had shown.

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Thank you for your input. It didn’t have any suggestions in regards to formatting, but I guess it’s probably best to just keep it simple.

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Completely agree with @Pasbal . I recently applied and was accepted and that’s what I did: super simple layout, bullet points in order of significance in groups/categories. Also making sure to not exceed the resume limit (don’t remember what it is but it’s on Part II of the application.)