So I was just looking through my resume, which I’ve submitted to several colleges already, and I realized that for an extracurricular activity, I wrote “August 2010 - Present // Grade 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12”. I actually only did this activity in sophomore year, and I noted this correctly in the CommonApp directly. In the description, I also wrote that it was a high school club, so do you think colleges will overlook it as a mistake?
Or should I email colleges to clear up the discrepancy between my app and my resume?
email them. It can’t hurt you. better safe than sorry
Why are you submitting a resume with items that are already in your common app, @psychopathycathy ?
@marvin100 many schools have an optional resume portion. I know I put almost everything I could think of on my common app, but I also replicated it into my resume. My resume was more organized and had a little more information about each task.
Shouldn’t your resume and common app items overlap?
I’ve said it a lot of times before, but yeah, in my opinion & experience, giving adcoms redundant documents is counterproductive and very few students have enough activities to genuinely necessitate a resume. The reason the common app includes activities and awards sections is to make resumes unnecessary–and those portions were added (then expanded!) at colleges’ request.
Yep, I had the same perspective as @Jpgranier. I don’t think it’s really possible for them NOT to overlap, but I felt like CommonApp didn’t give me enough space to really expand as much as I wanted about each activity. Plus, it seems like a lot of schools only give a small glance at the resume, so I thought it wouldn’t hurt.
Anyways, I’ve calmed down a little and ended up emailing the schools about it; if they don’t change it in my app for some reason I really hope it doesn’t become the difference between an acceptance and a rejection.
@psychopathycathy I think emailing was the correct thing to do. That’s a large mistake that would lead to questioning other parts of your resume.
@Jpgranier Yep, I didn’t want them to question the discrepancy and think I lied - thank you for your input 