<p>i have over 14 EC activities and stuff, along with work experience and talents.
is it too long? im scared adcoms will not even bother to skim it</p>
<p>Yes, it’s too long. If you’re a high schooler, you almost certainly do not have more than a page worth of useful stuff to put on your resume; resumes are not supposed to be a laundry list of every single activity you’ve ever done. </p>
<p>Cut it down to a page or less, and let it sit for a week. If you come back and decide that there’s something that really has to be on your resume, maybe add it back in.</p>
<p>john: your suspicion is correct. The one page rule probably will stand until after your first job after college. The purpose of a resume is not to give detailed facts about your ECs – only broad bullet points. One page – maybe 1.5 pp. edit edit edit</p>
<p>Good luck to you</p>
<p>Johnny, you need to highlight your top/favoriteECs. 14 sounds like too many. Which do you like best? Which are you best at?</p>
<p>My DD’s resume was 4 page long. We talked and she pointed out some school’s website that says resume could be 2-3 pages long. She shortened it to 3 pages and refused to cut it shorter.
I think it’s presumptuous to say there are not enough useful stuffs for a HS students to put on his/ her resume without knowing them.
If you are in 5, 6 orgs, do several ECs, receive numerous awards, volunteer at many different places , add work experience, there is simply no way to put it down on 1 page.</p>
<p>The resume is not a laundry list, that is correct. Which means you can not simply list a name of a club then done. You have to give more details. How do you suggest to put all that 10 times over on 1 page?</p>
<p>Yup, less than 1 page and 14 ECs sounds like a laundry list. I’ve seen a lot of resumes by senior level professionals with 20+ years of work experience and most of them can get their major achievements into one page. If they can do it, so can you. </p>
<p>Can any of these things be consolidated so it looks like you have perhaps 3-5 ‘themes’ rather than 14 separate things? For example, if you have 5 different kinds of volunteering and no one of these is especially outstanding, just put down ‘volunteering-various’ and list the dates. Or if you do recreational sports, just list is as ‘recreational sports’ and then list them (golf, tennis, swimming, etc… x hrs/wk). The adcom really doesn’t care that you were on the golf team for one year in 9th grade unless ‘sports’ is a major component of your application.</p>
<p>I am a 26 yr senior professional and I can do my resume in 1 page because I do mostly the same things at the same place.
My brother is a 20 yr pro and he worked at 10 diff places all over the US and oversea in different capacities. His resume is 3 times longer.</p>
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<p>You don’t and that is the point. It is highly unlikely that membership in all 10 ECs was meaningful. And even if it is meaningful to your D, it won’t be to adcoms. There are not enough hours in a day to spend meaningful time in 10 ECs and also go to class. </p>
<p>For example, volunteering at “multiple” places can be grouped into one or two lines. Or, focus on those that are important to the application: if applying to a prehealth program, for example, drop babysitting but include hospital volunteer work.</p>
<p>If a resume includes athletic history for a national or world-class athlete (details of placement, sponsorships, training, etc.), it often will take a whole page for just that. Two pages is acceptable in some cases, but there really is no reason it should ever be more than that!</p>