How do I put this on a resume?

Applying to College
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Over the past 2 years, I’ve mad a good amount of money through tutoring. I advertise over craigslist and work 6-10 hours a week at a $25 clip so I make $150-250 per week. Currently, my resume says “Founder, Personal Tutoring Business,” however, I’m a bit worried. I never declared any of the money I made because it was casual at first and it was all cash, never expected it to get this big. So, what do I put on my resume? Will schools think I’m lying if I have no forms to back it up other than some references from parents I tutor for??

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  1. 99% of colleges don’t want a resume
  2. You put the info on your Activities/Extracurriculars portion of the application
  3. They’re not IRS snitches and don’t care about your non-taxed dollars
  4. Don’t put “founder” – that’s puffery. List for example, “Paid Tutor in mathematics for 8th graders; 6-10hrs/week”. While you may think your hustling to market yourself successfully on Craigslist and actual pay is a big deal, colleges won’t.
  5. They don’t need proof. Frankly, they don’t care very much.
3

@T26E4 why don’t they want a resume? I was going to put it in my activities section too but they only give you so many characters, so I figured I could use the resume to elaborate?

4

They don’t have all that much time to read each app. The more succinct you can be while getting your point across, the better.

5

Agreed, I would not put “Founder” of a business if it is just you doing the tutoring. Just put Tutor - X hours a week. If you focus on one subject you can include that (ex. Math Tutor).

6

The “attach a resume” function was removed from the Common App at the behest of schools. Why? B/c they neither desire nor care about the detail that a resume conveys to them. While that project or fundraiser dollar amount or your schoolwide protest are very meaningful to you – colleges find most of that detail superfluous for their purposes. Thus, the activities list and the few words of descriptive text is all they care to look at.

That being said, sometimes LOR writers want a run-down of your ECs. Some potential college interviewers want them too. But as a matter of course, college admissions offices don’t want them.