<p>could anyone tell me whens the best time to send off RD apps- when shud be the latest date-around 20th Dec?
also,how many pages shud the resume be ideally?
did anyone like make their resume attractive like superficially like font colour and all- i mean doesnt that like take impresson away from the real deal?
also,shud the resume be signed and attested by the Guidance counselor and printed on a school letterhead???</p>
<p>hope some of u could help me out in this dilemma......
thanks</p>
<p>the latest date to send off apps is the deadline(an adcom told me that even a day or two after wasnt much of a problem). Since you're from india, i would send it a few days before the deadline, because i am assuming mail takes time. I doubt they start reading until mid january anyways. </p>
<p>Also, resume should be on plain paper, black and white, probably 3 pages max. Mine was like a page and a half.</p>
<p>can someone help me in compiling a resume? i mean ive got a rough copy sort of, but i feel like its redundant of my common app... does someone TRUSTWORTHY mind if i PM them? (i've had a bad essay experience on here in the past)</p>
<p>My advice, and the advice from Michelle Hernandez in A is for Admission and Acing the College Application, is to call your resume an "Activities Sheet" or something of that manner, rather than a resume. I called mine an activities sheet and got in ED (I'm sure what I called my resume really helped :P). Anyway, that's what I think :)</p>
<p>hehe nice one mademoiselle...im planning to send mine which is compressed to abt 3 pages...how abt titling it "list of achievements" to show aawards in other diverse pursuits or does that sound a tad bit pompous???:)</p>
<p>Sounds good to me! You could also call it something like a "Personal Achievement List." I think as long as you're not calling it something like "Ten Reasons Why I'm the Coolest Person in the World" you should be fine :P.</p>
<p>The general rule with resumes is don't include one if you can fit all achievements in the spaces provided by the common application (or whatever application you're using). If you can't fit everything (activites, awards, community service), attach a short resume (usually no more than a page). If you can fit everything, skip it. There's no need to be redundant, and the general feeling with extra material is "the thicker the application, the thicker the applicant" -- only include one if it will add something to your application that you could not add elsewhere.</p>
<p>Right, but the key thing in what you said is "if it will add something." One of my main activities, being chair of my community college's activities committee, would sound extremely childish if not elaborated on. "Activities Committee" sounds like some group that plans a party now and then, but in fact, as chair of the committee, I am in charge of a thirty-thousand dollar budget each year, as well as seven committee members. We have to put on weekly events, get contracts prepared, create promotion, and lots of other things. At times it's never ending, and it takes a huge amount of dedication and work, but the adcom wouldn't know that without reading something extra about it. I included a fairly detailed activities list and I feel it really helped my application.</p>
<p>A is for Admissions didn't say dont attach a resume, it said don't call it a resume. It explicitly says to attach an "activity list" and the same author has another book, I can't remember the title, that describes exactly how you should format it.</p>
<p>I think it's called Acing the College Application, but I'm not completely sure. It is by Michelle Hernandez, though...it's VERY helpful, check it out!</p>
<p>Don't list a resume if it details things like winner of the 6th grade spelling be because no one wants to see a laundry list of stuff. Unless you have really stellar national level stuff, your activites sheet should be no longer than a page and should not include stuff that you could place on the application unless you really need to go indepth.</p>
<p>IF you are going to send a resume group all of your activites together to show a pattern and you can always write a mini annotation along with this grouping. </p>
<p>CC Parent soozievtis big on annotated resumes. She suggests;</p>
<p>Activity/Award resume. The awards or achievements associated with an extracurricular activity, went WITH the listing and description of that activity. Only academic awards had a separate category. </p>
<p>If you are not of the faint of heart you can post your questions to the parents, and they would be very helpful in offering you suggestions, some may even volunteer to read what you have.</p>