<p>Can anyone reccommend a website that has the appropriate formatting for a college resume? Or possibly suggest something based upon your own resume's formatting? Thanks a lot</p>
<p>You can check out different college career resource sites for help with resume formating. I go to the career center at the University of Washington for resume help and they have a career guide with different formats. Here's a link: <a href="http://depts.washington.edu/careers/guides/index.php%5B/url%5D">http://depts.washington.edu/careers/guides/index.php</a>. I did find this link too: <a href="http://www.smsd.org/schools/smwest/feature472.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.smsd.org/schools/smwest/feature472.htm</a>. It has some info on college application resumes.</p>
<p>As for suggestions, one thing I would not do is use a resume template from Microsoft Word. Just choose a nice font (I use Garamond) and indent different sections while bolding and/or italicizing key words and phrases. Also, use specific words for different sections. Mine is broken up into: Highlights of Qualifications (I used highlights instead of summary which sounds like that list mentions the only qualifications I have), Education, Relevant Work Experience (I have several job experiences but for something as short as a resume I wanted to highlight my internship), Key Leadership and Community Activities (I have several extracurricular activities--even more when I was in high school--so I chose the ones that I am most passionate about), and finally, Major Awards and Honors (I would've had tons and tons of awards on my resume if I had to list all of them so I only chose to list the major ones that worked best for the purpose of that resume).</p>
<p>Obviously, yours will be a bit different from mine, but you don't want yours to be two and a half pages. I remember a Yale advisor telling me that if she had to read through several extra pages of "stuff" (i.e. supplementary materials, essays, exhibits), by the time she's done she's not a big fan of the student. So being concise is key. Oh, I used bullet points under each heading to describe responsibilities and tasks. Really, you want to tailor your resume toward whatever school you're applying to. If it's for the common app, then try to cover as many fields as possible. I'm not sure if this description helps or not, but send me a PM if you want to see my resume format. Hope this helps!</p>