<p>Do you think it will be OK if I will repeat the same activities I wrote in the Common App in my resume.</p>
<p>I mean I have 9 activities and Common App allows only 7, do you think I should write only the additional two, or to write again all the 9.</p>
<p>by writing all the activities I have a clear time line (from the 9th grade) and the resume looks more impressive.</p>
<p>what do you think?</p>
<p>I don’t think you should repeat them. An admissions officer will not want to spend any extra time reading what he has already read, and you might annoy him. Just include those extra two in the extra information session. </p>
<p>Most likely he won’t be impressed by your resume either since 73% of it has already been repeated. It might come off as an attempt at padding your application.</p>
<p>As the previous poster stated, use the additional information section to include the activities you could not previously. Having an English teacher who used to be an admission officer, the most hated thing about an application is redundancy. They have 15,000 + admissions and they have little time to read everything twice over.</p>
<p>Personally I’m just writing everything on my activity list. The common app gives barely any space to elaborate on anything and is quite worthless. Just saying “Math team” or “Debate club”, etc. doesn’t really mean much imho.</p>
<p>Does your English teacher really think the common app gives enough space?</p>
<p>Would he/she recommend only putting activities that can be sufficiently described in that space on the commonapp form, and then talking about the remaining activities in an attached list?</p>
<p>Mmmm I am an international student and I don’t have any teacher that can advice.
the thing is I have a full page with experience (4 jobs) and education, and I don’t know if I should elaborate more about my activities , it surly explain more but it will make my resume 2 pages</p>
<p>I repeated some of the activities I listed on my Common App but went into more detail on my resume.</p>
<p>Do you think a resume should be 1 page or it can exceed to 1.5-2 pages?</p>
<p>I had a 2 pg resume… I think that that’s the longest it can be without getting annoying.</p>