<p>Did anyone else send a resume with their commonapp? I used that last page, plus one additional page, to add one... do you think this is bad?</p>
<p>I don't think it's bad, but I didn't do it. I figure that if the ECs I put in the EC table, work experience and awards (the only 3 things a resume for college is good for) don't make a school want me, then the laundry list of lame things I did in the first two years of high school because I was bored aren't going to, either. I did attach a brief paragraph clarifying one of the ECs, however.</p>
<p>If you have meaningful ECs that outnumber the EC table rows, then I guess it couldn't be a bad idea. But I don't know.</p>
<p>I didn't do a "laundry list" (like "I did math club for two years"). But I DID list some additional journalism awards that I'd gotten, and explain some stuff a little more. Everything I put in the extra space was additional information on the stuff I put in the EC boxes. Like, I said that at my school, pit and chamber are audition only, so they'd know that I was serious about my violin. My journalism awards also took up a ton o' space. I'd use it only to clarify something. I don't think it's a spot to just list things out of nowhere.</p>
<p>I did add a resume to mine. My guidance counselor always has her students add one. It explained my awards and ECs a little more in depth. I'm not sure if it added very much to my application. However, a girl last year from my school who went to Dartmouth had the same guidance counselor, and I'm assuming she added one too. She got in, so it doesn't seem to hurt.</p>