<p>Hi, I'm currently a high school senior and some of my friends are including resumes in their college applications. I'm wondering if submitting a resume could help or hurt your college application. </p>
<p>Also, how do you submit one? Do you mail it in or is there some place on the common application to attach one?</p>
<p>My daughter submitted a resume to all the schools she applied to. There’s no way to know how much it helped, but it apparently didn’t hurt. She was accepted to all but two of her schools (and those were her two highest reaches). </p>
<p>Unless things have changed in the past 2 years, I don’t think there’s an option to attach a resume to the Common App. One of her non-Common App schools allowed her to submit the resume online, but for all the others, she mailed it to the admissions office, along with a cover page that included her name, address, high school, and social security number or applicant ID. One of her schools required any mailed-in materials to be accompanied by a form that could be printed off the website. </p>
<p>Dont submit a resume unless the college asks for or specifically allows it (contact admissions if its unclear). There’s a bit of a saying in admissions: thick files equals thick student. Colleges already have a ton of paperwork to consider, don’t add unnecessary workload for them.</p>