So what's the general consensus on sending a resume to ivies?

Applying to College
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<p>So I submitted all my common app and supplement yesterday.
and I was making my resume for a state college cuz they require it and realized my commonapps don really have enough.
some activities, i didn even have room to explain what i did there.
basically writing the name of the activity took up like half of the room.
so would it be a good idea to send resumes to ivy level schools such as HYPS?
it's not gonna like add a ton of new information about me but give some insight about what i did in activities.
and yes, some stuff, actually most of the stuff will be redundant in the resume.</p>

<p>so send or no send?
suggestions?</p>

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<p>oh cmon
bump plz</p>

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<p>Penn apparently doesn’t look at it</p>

<p>but if you need to have one, send it</p>

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<p>I included in my common app, and I’m applying to some ivies</p>

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<p>I applied to Yale SCEA and I added a resume to the additional information section.</p>

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<p>did ur resume have repetitive stuff from the common app?
if so, ppl said that may hurt u because admission officers don wanna look at the same thing again when they have million other apps to read.
that’s why im worried.
mine has alot of redundant stuff from commonapp and only a few new stuff, so should i send or what?</p>

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<p>If it’s not mostly new stuff, I would say don’t bother. What’s the point?</p>

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<p>k i guess so…
i thought even a little more new stuff might boost my chances
any more suggestions?</p>

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<p>Ya…remove all redundant stuff. I submitted a resume because I had a few other ECs and awards I wanted to mention.</p>

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<p>One thing that could help your decision: did you explain everything enough? My son put his activity page in the add’l information section. He may have already listed some of the topics, but he needed to elaborate. I also thought the common app format was terrible, because it seemed focused just on how many hours, not what did you do here? So, be sure to have your extra page very well organized.</p>

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<p>Huh? Do you guys really think it’s a good idea to remove the redundant stuff from your resumes? It’ll look better with everything on it. :)</p>

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<p>right but my problem is i already submitted my app so i can’t add anything to my additional info section.
so should i send my resume with everything on it, which would include all the stuff in common app plus some additional stuff i did in the clubs, or do not send the resume?
thx.</p>

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<p>Did it ever occur to ya’ll that if colleges WANTED a resume that they would ask for it. That if Common App wanted a resume, it would be included in the instructions and/or supplementary material? That 99% of 18-year-olds don’t have enough of anything to even build a resume?</p>

<p>Limabeans’ use of an addedum is correct: to further elaborate on stuff that is not intuitively obvious. “President of NHS” requires no further explanation, for example, even if you raised $10k for the homeless. Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity (or your church or synagogue or mosque) is self-explanatory… </p>

<p>Give the adcoms some credit. They’ve seen 90% of it before. Don’t waste their time by repeating stuff on the application itself. If nothing else, it tells them that you either cannot read instructions or that you can read, but you purposely fail to follow instructions. Good luck with that!</p>