Upload a Resume with your common app?

[marcsman399]

<p>i have a really smart friend who is applying to all the iveys and he said he uploaded a resume as his additional section.</p>

<p>Should i do that?</p>

<p>is that what you guys are doing?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

[Cash4601]

<p>I too uploaded a resume. I believe doing so allowed me to elaborate on my EC’s and work experiences in a better way than the simple format provided on the common application.</p>

[KBaher]

<p>I did, too. I put little descriptions under big awards/ECs that are really important to me. The Common App alone doesn’t allow enough room for explanation, and I didn’t want my whole essay to be about ECs</p>

[marcsman399]

<p>is there anyone who would advise against this?</p>

[Doodle]

<p>I know Stanford (and Caltech?) specifically request that you do not attach one. However, other schools, like Yale suggest it. I’d look at where you’re applying first. (or at least make separate versions)</p>

[sishu7]

<p>If they suggest it, by all means include one.</p>

<p>If not, be wary. According to “Acing the College Application” (by a former adcom), “Colleges think it somewhat presumptuous of a student to presume he or she deserves a resume. Resumes are for the workplace, not college. An annotated activity list will usually suffice.” </p>

<p>She then recommends creating and attaching an activity list with all the space you need.</p>

[99cents]

<p>Activity list makes more sense because the common application is so bad. You can’t group activities.</p>

[ballaurena]

<p>i have a resume detailing my dance training and performance experience (both are substantial). should i include it with my common app? i think it might be a good idea because it’s basically my only EC because my dance schedule is pretty limiting. however, my personal statement and 150 word are both about dance. would it be overwhelmingly dance-oriented then?</p>

[99cents]

<p>My DD does the same thing. At least there is no doubt what is your passion is.</p>

[99cents]

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The Power of the Hook</p>

<p>Every high school student actually has a College Hook—that one special interest that will cause admissions officials to salivate over an application and significantly increase the odds of getting into a favorite college.</p>

<p>Sometimes students have an obvious Hook, such as the highly ranked basketball player from Florida or the budding cholesterol researcher from Georgia. One student transformed herself into a “foreign correspondent,” and still another became involved in a heart-rending search for a Chinese birth mother.</p>

<p>Other times, I encounter students whose Hook has been as seemingly frivolous or mundane as watching soap operas every afternoon, or reading science fiction, or working during summer vacations at Sears.</p>

<p>In the end, the secret to finding and exploiting a College Hook is to pinpoint a dominant interest, activity, or set of experiences that reflects one of your deepest passions in life—a passion that will set you apart from other students for purposes of college admissions.

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[aeolia6]

<p>I thought colleges usually didn’t want resume attached… Unless you have something SIGNIFICANT that was left out in the common app you want to elaborate on, but that doesn’t really require a resume.</p>