<p>Hi everyone:)! I feel guilty for starting a new thread, but couldn't dig one up that's pretty recent. If there is one, I apologize, I guess I'm a little mental and can't open up my eyes.</p>
<p>Anyways, I've read that you should try your best to keep a resume to a single page. Is this true? So far, I have been able to fit everything except Community Service and Talents, Awards & Honors onto a single sheet.</p>
<p>Any advice? Thank you:)!</p>
<p>I would recommend that you keep it under one page, if you submit it at all.
Keep in mind that on average, adcoms spend 15 minutes going over each application. That’s fifteen minutes to read at least two full essays, three recommendations and a few short answers, go over your transcript and all of your ecs, and look over your school report while checking to see if you took the most challeging courses available to you.
For the most part, they don’t have extra time to read over a resume, especially one that basically contains the same informations as your ec summary and awards.</p>
<p>Unless you have something truly awesome to put on it (in which case that awesome thing is probably already listed under ecs), I wouldn’t add a resume.</p>
<p>Up until you’ve been out of college for a while, your resume should not exceed one page. There’s no good reason for a resume to be longer than a page until you’ve been working for a long time.</p>
<p>Contrary to the above post, I would recommend including a resume. It serves as a useful, 45-second summary of many of the key points of your application.</p>
<p>If you’re having trouble getting it onto a single page, there’s a few things you can do:
(1) Use a smaller font
(2) Change the margins
(3) Adjust the line spacing
(4) Cut some of the less-important items
(5) Eliminate long explanations - fragments are acceptable and encouraged</p>
<p>A resume that exceeds one page is a bad idea for college apps.</p>
<p>Thank y’all so much! I am still debating on adding one or not, so this helps a lot! :)</p>
<p>I do review and resumes are flat-out aggravating. Where did kids get the idea they need to include one?<br>
If you have additional awards, some critical details that go beyond the scope of the EC section, then briefly note those. Don’t waste a reviewers time with a reformat of the same old same old. They are not required to read a resume.</p>
<p>Follow R7’s advice to make it even more difficult to read…and reap the consequences.</p>
<p>lol… at the University of Texas at Austin session they told us to make sure we had one! :P</p>
<p>Well, now I see that. Wonder if it has to do with the “Apply Texas” format-? I’d still say, for other schools which don’t encourage it, be judicious.</p>
<p>Yes, keep the resumes at one page max unless you have really went beyond the heavens in your extracurricular achievements—then you may need more than one page of achievements to express how amazing you are.</p>