<p>I have a lot of extracurriculars. On the common app in the activities section, towards the bottom of the list they start to look insignificant. Would a resum</p>
<p>Yes, they look at them. At the school, they go in the folder with your app, reccs, etc. I’d describe in more detail if you go this route. You can learn online how each school wants you to submit “supplemental info.” Or, call and ask. Everyone knows skating is a huge comittment, so the rest of your list is all the more impressive. :)</p>
<p>Anyone have a website explaining a good format?</p>
<p>You may get web suggestions, but no need to professionalize it. What you started here is fine. Just explain what your art is (eg, painting, sculpture,) maybe something about a partic skating award or the ages of whom you teach- just another few words to make it clear in the readers mind.</p>
<p>Should I be more specific with art? I work in a variety of media, but I was thinking of sending samples of my work. Also I don’t teach skating, I just have private lessons. I’ll be sure to make that more clear.
What kind of vibes do you get from my extracurriculars?</p>
<p>Good vibes. Order the “info sheet” to fit your college choices/proposed major -or what’s most impressive overall.<br>
A little advice: I don’t mean to be presumptious, but have been thru this w 2D.</p>
<p>Section 4 is most impressive, put it high, each activity a new line. Add just a few words to enhance each. YIG: add where; doesn’t this usu take place in some govt locale? Model UN: your involvement and where. UN vol for mid school: what you did. Leadership Conf: what and where.<br>
Then, yearbook, it’s two years of editorial repsonsibility. Are you “involved” or do you actually manage/oversee/coordinate?<br>
Speech/Debate: add the name of the national and where; how you got to go to-if you were nominated or won the right.
If you had some responsibility at Green River, add a few words to describe. If you were just a camper, tell some significant project or etc.
Girl Scouts: tell what the leadership award was for.</p>
<p>I didn’t mention art yet- if it is your passion, if it is you intended major, then decide whwther it should be #1. Do tell what the award was for.
Name the college class and the college. If “Personal art exploration” means you work at it on your own time, I’d rethink that one- can you bump it up a notch?<br>
Now, I apologize if this states what you already intended to do.</p>
<p>Are you sure this won’t fit? Don’t look at it in term of things that do fit being seen as insignificant on a list at the bottom, every thing will be noticed. If you put a resume when you didn’t need to you are just being a PITA, to my view, making the officer double read your EC’s and repeating stuff that might be in your transcripts. It is okay to make one, it seems, but I think there should be a good reason for it, and you should keep it to one page. fyi, my daughter didn’t make one, she had many ec’s like you, some overlap, 3 varsity sports, serious and significant science research, editor, class positions yada yada, may have left some stuff off even, and it didn’t affect her acceptances.</p>
<p>Have you read The Gatekeepers? Although the officers are seen are near heroic, I can’t help but think that some will find a resume annoying. Not all, of course. They main reason why one might be right for you, is that perhaps some of your EC will not be reflected in your GC’s letter.</p>