<p>brassmonkey,</p>
<p>Sorry, but the interviewer's questions sound fine to me. Your friend, on the other hand, sounds unprepared.</p>
<p>i just read this htread now, there is a footer with your ss num there</p>
<p>yeah dude get that off. At least edit your post to remove the link to prevent people from finding out about it. You can just copy and paste the important parts in...I don't think that this thread is worth risking that kind of information.</p>
<p>seriously this can mean big trouble for you and your family. NEVER be so careless about your ssn. </p>
<p>about ur resume it is wayyyy too long. 2 pages max and include a cover letter.</p>
<p>some of the stuff you listed is very trivial. Like the paper trade thing. It is very easy to have good returns when it isnt real money. I longed and shorted penny stocks and got like 3000% return in like 3 month. Colleges know that it is a bluff. I suggest you seriously whittle it down to what you really are interested in. Else the admissions will just think you are trying to pile ECes.</p>
<p>lol........................................</p>
<p>Lol, the SSN is being discussed more than Chan's real question. You're applying to just strictly Wharton school right? I think you're a shoe in. If you wanted to do M&T, you might be able to get in if your engineering degree was CS. Or, the Huntsman program would work to with all of your international affairs. I wouldn't worry about the interview, it's just for "informational" purposes.</p>
<p>if the ss# still shows up, (as yomoma says...) I'd PM a mod and ask them to remove the link; I think that the edit function of posts goes away after a while...I agree...his ss# is being discussed more, but I think it's a bit more important to get that off right now!</p>
<p>Dont worry lol he already removed the file.</p>
<p>Good luck getting into Wharton. I heard it's harder than Harvard, but you're probably a typical CC kid with amazing stats.</p>
<p>sounds a lil scary, i don't think she did it on purspose and hopefully it shouldnt make a big deal</p>
<p>yo Chanman,
Greaaaaat ECs on your resume.
I have a question though: what do you mean your all state auditions rating 1s?
Do you mean in the All State orchestra, you were concertmaster?</p>
<p>OH no!
You cut off the second part of your resume! The business part! I need help on that. Ok, what do you do to start a business? I have an idea in mind. You see, I'm a violinist as well, and I've been teaching privately. Okay, my idea is that I create this program kinda thing, "students teaching students through music" or something like that. I definitely don't know the business aspect of it, so if you could help me out...
=)</p>
<p>u know u underlined so many that really the best things don't stand out. Besides, FOUR PAGES? R U KIDDING ME IT IS SO DAMN LONG!!</p>
<p>I second what imiricale911 said. Some of it is really good, but many of it can be pretty trivial. Nothing really stands out as a passion, and while it can be nice to be a jack-of-all trade, people will question your commitment too those MANY items, and wonder how you have to the for everything and school at the same time since you say you don't get home until 9pm or something.</p>
<p>A few things I'm not sure why you put in (in the order of appearance):
1. "other numerous individual medals" - is there one you are proud of and want to put in. Take this out or replace it with a little more specificty
2. for piano, not sure why you added in that you made state in 8th grade. you don't really need it and it was before high school.
3. I would not add E-bay, you are underage (or were) and that's ILLEGAL. (I remember having to be 18 before I could get an account, but I could be wrong)
4. the virtual stock thingy...what's the point?
5. if you have notable events for for the dance team, why do you need the bullet right before and after?
6. not sure why you need to tell us you tutored relatives for 10 hours when you visited hongkong unless you are writing an essay about it.
7. you could probably take out your unsuccessful entries in digital photography
8. for multilingual - you should indicate proficiently levels like French (are you fluent in the other languages?)
9. not sure if you need to include your foreign travels.</p>
<p>And a last note, not sure why you are selectively choosing activities to note hours. You should put hours (or appx. hours) for all of them, and that way, you can show why the ones in the beginning are most important to you because you've dedicated the most time to. And lastly, it seems you have kept track of every little thing you've done, with congrats, but not sure if it will help you listing everything. You can take any or none of my suggestions, but I just wanted to say that you have quite an impressive resume or rather--an activity vitae. Good luck on your application.</p>
<p>I think the laundry list of activities detracts from the really impressive things you have done. At some point while reading it, I began to imagine my daughter sprucing up her (much shorter) resume by listing the 10 hours she spent brushing, bathing and clipping her friend's poodles one summer, calling it a "business" by naming it Polly's Poodle Polishing and giving it a web page. </p>
<p>Now, I know that you didn't do that -- you didn't retrofit a bunch of minimal activities into something more than they actually were. I understand that and I sincerely appreciate all the hours you have truly put in. But that is the impression that I, an adult, am left with. And adults are the ones who will be reading your app. Just a thought. Take it or leave it. But some of the things on your list make me feel like I need to go back and question the other things that originally struck me as legit and impressive. </p>
<p>In other words, to put it bluntly, by the time I got to the end, I was beginning to feel like I might have been reading a bit of BS. And I think you intuitively understand that because I think that is why you were paranoid about the phone call.</p>
<p>ur ap comparative gov website is a joke...</p>
<p>yes, that's why i only sold 3 copies lol.</p>
<p>I agree with what everyone has said. Way too much extraneous info on that resume. "Welcoming Wildcats" and "Book Club" don't seem important or demanding in any way. Taking people around the school isn't very impressive, nor is reading (I assume most people applying read books as it is... no need to point out you're in a book club unless you're an officer or something).</p>
<p>"Taught elementary/middle school students at a clinic before the Rockwood MIOS concert"
Unless you can put many hours down or derive some significance from this, it seems trivial on paper. </p>
<p>Leave out the "buying selling" on internet thing, anybody can buy and sell via internet nowadays.</p>
<p>Leave out that virtual stock exchange, and "view portfolio: chantown" since they won't pay much attention to this and will definitely not take the time to view your portfolio.</p>
<p>Also, I noticed major inconsistencies with where you listed hours (like quynh said) and it makes it impossible to judge how involved you truly were with most of these things.</p>
<p>As for photography, since you haven't been in major events or won things for it, I'd leave it out... especially since anyone can take pictures and make their own pic gallery.</p>
<p>It's obvious you're very accomplished and have acheived many things, but this resume makes it seem like you're trying to list every tiny thing you've ever done. You can cut 50-75% of it.
I'd also leave out things like "experienced the rich cultures of...". It only makes it seem superficial and contrived. This resume would have much more impact if it was concise and only included the most important points, rather than every minute detail of every every last event you've ever participated in.</p>
<p>Gold Shadow, that's a really good point.
I actually just made a resume..and everyone's yelling at me because it's so long and tedious.. and I had too much detail.
Could you read it.. and give me some editing advice too?
(It's a thread)</p>