screwitlah

How might my previous HS resume be used, if at all? Would they be read and reviewed again by any department or any placement programs and taken into consideration when I apply to programs or internships? i have an inferiority complex, and i think i barely scraped it into Princeton - my HS resume wld hardly be good enough to be competitive against most ppl's at Princeton's.

would my (relatively) inadequate high school/college app resume hurt me when I apply to, say, Woodrow Wilson School? i will work very hard during my freshman year, but i'm not confident about my HS/college app resume.

randombetch

I think there's definitely a lot of competitiveness at Princeton. Even the freshman seminars are application based.

screwitlah

hm. and do these applications require my HS/ college app resumes? can't i start on a clean slate?

Silly Puddy

Nope.

They will not be used in any way, unless you voluntarily put forth information when you apply to internships after freshman year. I haven't seen my high school stuff since I applied to colleges. The one exception may be SAT scores, which some companies ask for on resumes.

Well, it's competitive because people are smart and have high expectations of themselves, not because everyone constantly slaps each other with their resumes. The feeling of overt interpersonal competition is very limited; I probably felt more of that in my high school than here.

As for freshman seminars, it depends on the professor, I believe, but it's often just random picking. And the application consists of writing an essay explaining why you want to be in the class, not some rigorous review of any records. All they want is to preserve the seminar experience and not have a hundred people in a popular seminar.

screwitlah

Thanks Silly Puddy. i'm quite surprised that my HS resume won't be used during my freshman year - otherwise the people in charge of these applications, etc don't have much to work with. my friend from Stanford HAS used his HS resume once or twice to apply to things during his freshman year.

Does anyone here know about Woodrow Wilson School admission in particular? I'm interested in applying there, but my HS / college app resume is not very focused on public sevice-ish things.

Celita

Yeah, I'm hoping nothing will be used for anything in college class placements and all that (or honors, whatever) from high school--grades and AP's included.