<p>I'm trying to make my high school r</p>
<p>you need a resume for college admissions? Isn’t that just the commonapp? I don’t think I ever made a HS resume for a college (made one for a summer job, but that was about it).</p>
<p>You don’t necessarily NEED one. But I want to include one with my applications because I feel like the ones I’ve seen limit what I can say about myself.</p>
<p>3 pages?! It sounds like you’re either an overachiever or just not very concise. 
Your resume should definitely be on one page - one sided. Stick to short but descriptive bullet points. I don’t have my high school resume on this computer but I can send it to you later - it helped get me a big scholarship so it might help you!</p>
<p>Here are links to a samples:
[College</a> Admissions Resume – How to Write a Resume](<a href=“http://www.how-to-write-a-resume.org/College_Admissions_Resume.htm]College”>College Admissions Resume | Free Sample Resumes)
<a href=“http://www.docstoc.com/search/college-application-resume/[/url]”>http://www.docstoc.com/search/college-application-resume/</a></p>
<p>Lol. I am an overachiever. But I’m trying to keep it to two pages. What is taking up most of the space is my descriptions of my EC’s, and summer programs. And I read that you’re supposed to explain awards too, but I would think that would take up way too much space too. And thank you!</p>
<p>anyone else? It’d be great to compare a couple.</p>
<p>bump!
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<p>A professional resume is only 1-2 pages. A HS resume should not exceed a page. I don’t think ADCOM’s really want to read more. As for activities and such, I still think you can just place it in the common app. Don’t be repetitive.</p>
<p>The reason why I’m iffy about shortening it to one page because I’ve heard in several college prep seminars I’ve been to that I can go on to 2 pages if I need to. I mean I’ll probably remove anything that seems redundant after I start fill out the comm application. But I just want to see what others look like before I start removing things. It’s only on a third page by like three lines.</p>
<p>what included was:
contact info
an objective
education
EC’s
summer programs
volunteer work
work experience
honors/awards
special interests</p>
<p>Why not just put onto the resume what you won’t be reporting on the other applications you’re submitting to the college? They should have asked for all of your contact information. They should know what schools (that they care about) you have attended. There are very easy spots on most applications for awards and other honors…etc. If you are sending both this resume and an application, the last thing anyone will want to do is read the same information twice.</p>
<p>I’d get rid of objective (to get into college --duh) and special interests. Your ECs and such will reflect those. Have you ever heard the saying, “Thick file, thick applicant”?</p>
<p>One page, tops. They’ll stop reading if it’s too long. (Also if the print is too small and there’s not enough white space.)</p>
<p>Lose the objective (most people can’t write a good one anyway), lose the descriptions. Put your bullet points into two columns.</p>
<p>The idea is to spark their interest so they can ask you questions in the interview, not to present your definitive autobiography.</p>
<p>If you google high school resume templates, you’ll find several places that can give you ideas. </p>
<p>My son used one from this site when he applied for a summer intern program last year as a rising junior:</p>
<p>[AIE</a> | High School Students | Sample Resumes](<a href=“http://www.aie.org/HighSchool/Jobs/SampleResumes/index.cfm]AIE”>http://www.aie.org/HighSchool/Jobs/SampleResumes/index.cfm)</p>
<p>If I were you I would focus on the common app once it comes out rather than on a resume. I mean you can submit one, but I would spend much more time on the common app.</p>
<p>I thought sending in anything other than the app. was looked down upon… NO?</p>
<p>Is sending resumes at colleges like HYPS seen as a yes? No?</p>
<p>Don’t mean to hijack it here but I have a question:
On your app when you’re putting down being a member of a team do you mention how far that team made it that year? (Made it to regional finals etc)</p>
<p>@WishyWashy
That makes sense. So I should just change it to show things that aren’t on each respective applicaton? </p>
<p>@Youdon’tsay
I think I will get rid of the objective. I kinda want to keep the special interests because they show something about me that aren’t express directly in my EC’s since I didn’t list them all b/c I have way too many. And I’m DEFF going to shorten the EC descriptions</p>
<p>@stradmom
I didn’t even think about the 2 columns! thanks!
Most of the schools I’m applying to don’t do interviews though.</p>
<p>@powerbomb
Check each school’s website or ask the admission office about this because some will accept it and look at it, and others specifically say they won’t.</p>
<p>I think you’re misunderstanding the point of a resume.</p>
<p>Resumes are not intended for you to cram every single fact and nook about yourself onto a page or two. You can’t even do that concisely. A resume is an attention-grabber. It is supposed to succinctly, concisely summarize the parts of you that are most relevant to the task at hand and that will get you an interview (in the job world, the sole purpose of a resume is to get you an interview). I guess the academic translation would be something that makes the admissions advisor think a second thought about you.</p>
<p>That said, put yourself in an admissions officer’s shoes. You have just finished reading 75 applications and you still have 35 more to get through before you get to leave the office at 6 pm, maybe 7 pm. Your office is freezing and if you read one more “I have always wanted to be…” or “I have always thought of myself as…” essay, you’re going to scream. Then you come across an application with an extra attachment. Great. You scan it quickly.</p>
<p>When the admissions officer takes 30 seconds to scan your resume, what do want to her to see? A lot of small text crammed into two columns on one page (which is a very unusual format, I might add) with long lists that are irrelevant to her and likely repeated in the application she’s about to read? Or a clean, well-composed resume with a lot of white space and an attractive design that seems short, direct, and concise?</p>
<p>My advice:</p>
<p>-Drop the 2 columns idea.
-Think about the ECs, summer programs, awards, and honors that are MOST IMPORTANT to you, that you think say the most about you as a student, and that you would tell a stranger first if you were trying to impress them. List them in order on a piece of paper, if you have to. Then just list those, with one or two bullets per item that describes (not in full sentences) something awesome that you did there.
-Get rid of the special interests section. I know that you said they “show something about you” that you don’t express in your ECs, but really think about it – what are you including in this section that is so bone-shatteringly important that it might tip you over the edge to get accepted? Is it unique? Unusual? Different?</p>
<p>Moreover, if a person told you that they were a mortician and played chess in their spare time, would you assume that the only things they were interested in were dead bodies and chess? Most admissions officers are not robots, and they will know that people have other interests despite just the ones you can list on a single sheet of paper.</p>
<p>Just remember – you’re not expected to get all of you onto one piece of paper. You’re just trying to draw attention to yourself.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice! I definitely will put more thought into this as to what to include and what not to.</p>
<p>I would still like to see someone’s real college app resume though.</p>
<p>Just put things that are not going to show up elsewhere and definitely limit it…the shorter the better. Seriously, no way is an overworked adcom gonna look at your 3-page resume. Those guys read tons of apps in a day and won’t have time for 3 pages of stuff from you or anyone else.</p>