Should I remove the other skills section of this resume, and do you have any other recommendations?
OBJECTIVE To pursue higher education at a reputable university.
EDUCATION
August 2012 – June 2014 Plantation High School, Plantation, Florida, 9th and 10th grade
August 2014 – June 2016 College Academy at Broward College, Davie Florida, 11th and 12th grade
Major Accounting/Finance
ACADEMICS
SAT Reasoning Test, 10/3/15 Verbal: 660 Writing: 630 Math: 710 Combined: 2000
Cumulative Un-weighted GPA 3.47
Weighted GPA 4.80
AP Statistics Score 4: 10th grade
AP Psychology Score 4: 10th grade
AP World History Score 4: 9th grade
AP Human Geography Score 4: 9th grade
ACADEMIC AWARDS
• Awarded the INSPIRE award in 9th grade for being the most well rounded individual in class.
• Awarded A Honor Roll in 9th grade.
• Awarded Academic Excellence award in 9th and 10th grade.
EXTRACURRICULARS
• Member of Mu Alpha Theta (Math Club) in 9th grade.
• Member of Physics Club in 9th grade.
• Taught Hindu values, beliefs, and virtues at South Florida Hindu temple 9th and 10th grade.
• Also participated in cultural events that aimed to inform the public of Indian festivities and heritage 9th and 10th grade.
• Attended Duke University’s Summer High School program in Physics.
COMMUNITY SERIVCE AND VOLUNTEER WORK
• Volunteered at Westside Regional Medical Center in Pathology Department 9th grade.
• Volunteered at numerous Hindu Temples and South Florida Leuva Patidar Samaj by taking out trash and serving water and food 10th and 11th grade.
OTHER TALENTS AND HOBBIES
• Table Tennis
• Play percussion instruments, with an emphasis in timpani.
• Small scale farming and gardening
• Reading books, with a preference towards dystopia and science fiction (primarily Isaac Asimov and Alduous Huxley).
OTHER SKILLS
• Can partially understand Spanish language.
• Can present and explain things intuitively and thoroughly.
Doesn’t matter. But you should really sanitize specific personal data in future posts. Anyone in your HS, looking at this, will recognize who you are.
i.e. remove the names of schools, job places, etc. when posting publicly requesting comment.
Yeah i removed my address, later realizing how stupid I was to put that on there. Honestly, I doubt anyone would care, but hey this is the internet, bad stuff can happen.
Also get rid of the “Objective” part.
It looks like you stopped doing everything once you started your new school. The only thing you have for 11th grade is taking out trash and serving water, and there is nothing for this year. Did you do anything else last year, or anything this year that you can add?
Other questions about possible things you can add… Do you speak Hindi? Have you taken high-level math classes to indicate quantitative abilities for a major in accounting/finance? Have you been involved in any business activities? Looks like you were originally planning to go into medicine or science, based on volunteer work in pathology and summer program in physics. Now you say you want to do accounting and finance, which are completely different. Those interests should show up somehow on your resume.
Which AP courses are you enrolled in now? You can add those. If you’ve read any books related to accounting and finance, or played any investing games or tried investing for real, you can add that as well.
I also suggest getting rid of “Objective” - if this is a high school resume, colleges that you are applying to already know you want to pursue higher education.
It’s usually fine to have an “Other Skills” section - for example, my skills section currently has knowledge of different programming languages as well as familiarity with LaTeX and Microsoft Office.
I’ve never been a big fan of putting SAT scores on a resume. There might be cases where it’s advisable to list them, but colleges that require SAT scores will see them anyway.