I have an alumni interview this Sunday, and the interviewer asked me to bring a resume, to help “guide the conversation”. What should I put on said resume (I don’t have one at the moment)? I have my common app list of activities, but I’m not really sure how to transfer that to an actual resume. I really just don’t know where to start with this, and would really appreciate any input.
Does your school use Naviance? You can use that to create a resume. The activity list will be similar to Common App but you can use more detail if needed. Anything is helpful because interviewers usually do not get any of your application info - just your name, school and contact information. Good luck!
Google “college application resume” and “college application resume examples” for guidance.
I don’t ask for resumes, but the ones that I have found the most useful highlight the things that interviewee wants to talk about. Not knowing what your interviewer has in mind, he/she may expect gpa, test scores and current classes, so I would include those even if you don’t want to spend a lot of time on the objective stat’s. A list of major honors and awards is probably also expected and to your benefit. EC’s, talents and circumstances is where you need to be more judicious. Choose the ones (or at least order them) that you want to talk about. If you have a kitchen sink list, the interview could wander off into topics that might not be the strengths you want to highlight.
We used to call it “intkid in a nutshell” (document that was resume-like that kid used as a brag sheet for teachers doing recommendations or any other thing like an interview). Somehow it was less formal than a resume. 
Just looked at D1. Hers was 1 page, divided into the following sections:
- Academics (GPA, # of honors or APs taken relative to HS offerings, combined SAT score, honor roll info, other academic awards)
- School Activities - Bullet for each item - used Italics for the name of the item (like “Nordic Ski Team”) and then listed a little info about the activity, positions, awards, etc.
- Non-School Activities - same as above, but listed stuff like Girl Scouts and external foreign language study.
Single spaced within the section to fit it on one page (she had a LOT of activities). Used a bullet and italics to set off where each item started. I think she sent it to interviewers ahead of time when she had the contact info, and also took a copy with her for them if needed. Some interviewers had looked at it, some hadn’t. Some used it as a jumping off point for questions, some ignored it.