<p>On my resume, I put down that I was part of the homecoming court this year...should I have done that? My hope was that the admissions officers could see that I was social and active and not just a marching band/orchestra/chemistry super asian. But i mean, homecoming court seems kind of pretentious and unimportant to put on a resume....?</p>
<p>Definitely not a mistake. </p>
<p>Putting it in your attached resume is perfect, I wouldn’t list it on the common app or try to hype it up too much, but listing it on the resume is fine.</p>
<p>It’s not really going to help you a great deal, it just shows another little piece of you. It also shows that you are revered by your peers, which is actually probably pretty important.</p>
<p>Right thanks! Idk, it just seems like a big popularity contest. All of the other people on court were football players :/</p>
<p>It absolutely is a popularity contest and that’s what makes it good. You are showing Harvard that you are popular among your peers in addition to all your other talents/traits. </p>
<p>I’m sure it won’t help you much, they will probably just blaze right over it without second thought, but its still worth putting down.</p>
<p>^ haha yeah, thats what I thought. I didn’t want to elaborate on it in case I sounded like a jerk or haughty, so I just put down “Homecoming Court 2011” :P</p>