<p>Since I will be applying to college soon how do you make a resume as a student?</p>
<p>A resume isn’t required in 95% of circumstances. Most colleges don’t need them. Your Common App has lines for you to list your top awards and extracurriculars.</p>
<p>The common app will outline it for you, and for schools who don’t use the common app, usually it will say “list Volunteer work” then “list school activities” and “List employment” and stuff like that.</p>
<p>If I go to interviews for colleges will they need a resume?</p>
<p>No. If they ask, just jot down a list of ECs and awards – it wouldn’t be formal whatsoever. Rather a list of reminder points for your interviewer. I interview extensively and never ask for them</p>
<p>In most cases it’s not needed, but when you start applying, it’s handy to have everything you need to know in one spot. I just typed out a Word document with three categories: Academic, Extracurricular, Community Service. Under those three categories I just wrote down everything related to those topics that was noteworthy. For academic, make sure you include your GPA, ACT or SAT scores, any AP classes and those scores, class rank (if your school has one), school rank (if it is ranked)…stuff like that. For ECs, just write down hobbies and sports you’ve done since beginning highschool. If you have a lot, narrow it down to 3-5. Five being the maximum, maximum anyone should include. You don’t want to look like a scatterbrain, they’d rather see real commitment in one area than you dipping your toes into ten areas. For community service just include any volunteer work you’ve done (if any) and the number of hours you’ve committed in that area. I also included work experience, I had started several successful small businesses and worked for a small dairy farm so I included those on the resume. Oh, and I also included a section for my one strong interest. Mine happened to be training and showing dogs professionally and for competition so I kind of grouped it under “dogs” and jotted down everything significant that I had done and accomplished that was related to dogs. This included championship wins, big training jobs, volunteering at the humane society, pet photography, etc. If you don’t have a strong interest, that’s fine, but I think it’s definitely a plus if you do. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>Usually no, I don’t know of any schools having students bring a resume. If you really want to make one Google academic resume templates. Personally I have one, one section has basic academics (GPA, SAT, rank and so on), one section is co-curricular activities, one section is stuff outside of school, one section is jobs/internships and one section is awards.</p>