<p>How long can our resume be for that section? </p>
<p>Mine is 2.5 pages. Is it too much?</p>
<p>That's how long mine is. So at least you're not the only one to do this.</p>
<p>Mine's about two.</p>
<p>What school's are you submitting it to?</p>
<p>mine is about 2 pages. might increase as I put in details. my guidance counselor said 2 pages was not excessive.</p>
<p>My dad deals with stuff during work all the time. His advice is to definitely try to keep it to one page. People with Ivy League degrees and a couple of years work experience can do it in one page. At first I was shocked and kind of insulted at his advice, but multiple pages is a bit pretentious for a high school senior's resume.</p>
<p>One page also</p>
<p>I mean, mine isn't actually a resume. It's a chart of my extracurricular activities with a short description of what I do in each one -- shows the adcoms that I actually DO stuff; my ECs aren't just a laundry list.</p>
<p>I don't think that's pretentious. D:</p>
<p>My problem is I got like 20 different awards, but they are all about same importance (e.g., NMSF, AP scholar, school top departmental awards, district/region/city champs stuff, piano stuff.... goes on and on)</p>
<p>And I got various EC's, for switching 2 schools, thus switching activities.
So, I can't really restrict myself to 3 or 4 EC or major awards like IMO/USAMO (which I will never obtain). I also need to explain about being an immigrant, class rank disadvantage, transcript problems.</p>
<p>Resumes should be 1 page. You do not need to list grades, classes taken, academic awards, GPA, graduation date, etc. on your resume, since that information is found elsewhere.</p>
<p>You do not need to explain "Treasurer", "Vice President", "President", "Captain" or any other similar positions - colleges know what they are and what they do.</p>
<p>You do not need to explain common activities such as National Honor Society, Marching Band, Football team or Chess Club. Schools know what they are.</p>
<p>Enclose a resume only if it offers additional information that is necessary to understand your application. Do not be redundant.</p>
<p>Many students do not need a resume. Make sure you do before you enclose it.</p>
<p>I put my 7 school-related and athletic activities on the common app activities page. I'm attaching a resume with descriptions of some independent historical research I've done and short descriptions of summer activities. Is this ok-sounding?</p>
<p>If the descriptions are short & succint (bullet points, not sentences), it sounds OK.</p>
<p>yea, a person in the tufts admissions office visited our school and stressed that they want only 1 page resumes. he said something along the lines of "i had one page myself coming out of college!" so we should keep it to one page too</p>
<p>tufts said that? then i'll follow those instructions</p>
<p>My school requires everyone to make an activities resume which is stapled to the back of our transcript and mailed. Also, we are told to elaborate each activity right on the resume, so mine is over 2 pages long when it could be a page. I think this is a stupid idea. Should I tell my guidance counselor that I want it to be removed and instead list my activities in the additional info section?</p>
<p>If you attach a resume, remove everything that is stated elsewhere on the application (we don't need to see a list of courses taken, GPAs, test scores, activities/honors already listed on the app etc.). You may find that you don't really need the resume after all if you do that.</p>
<p>Remember that you get space to explain an activity right after your list. Only use the "additional info" section for truly additional info. Remember that your recommendations often repeat what's on the activity list, too. Adding a resume on top of all that is sometimes repetitive and it makes getting through some files tedious.</p>
<p>Don't create more work than you need to! Applications are lengthy enough as it is.</p>
<p>Hi Dean J,</p>
<p>so what you are saying is that if i list all the extracurriculars on the common app and in the spaces below i provide some details about each activity i did, i don't even need to type up a separate resume? wow...that's amazing.</p>
<p>Dean J--Beyond saving the applicant time, I'm sensing from some of what I read that adcoms do not want to waste their time reading anything in an additional statement that they've found anywhere else in the application. Even if our clever applicants find a way to re-group activities or explain in more detail an activity mentioned briefly earlier, it sounds like it's better left off.<br>
How might this translate into how applications are treated--is there a resentment of wasting the adcom's time, or that an 18-year old who believe s/he needs a resume is presumptuous? I think the average attitude of an applicant might be, "well, it can't hurt to throw it in there"...but perhaps it could at some subtle level??</p>
<p>When we put random info (i.e. extra ap tests, etc) in the additional info section, how do we format it? If I'm attaching a resume, should I just type this additional info below the resume in the word document?</p>
<p>Also, in the additional info section, it says "Upload Document" -OR- write in the space below. I understand it says "OR", but is it possible to upload a document AND write in the space below? Or once you upload a document, does that space below go away? THANKS.</p>
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<p>I have plenty to say about this, but I'm going to save it for my blog. For now, I'll say that a call to your schools will give you a sense for how they feel about all the extras.</p>