1 page resume vs crowded resume vs cutting out important things

Cubby208
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:02:31 +0000

For schools that have my resume I am doing my best to present a character that is not present in the common app.

However, after printing out my resume I realized it is crowded and difficult to read. And not because my formatting is bad, I just have too much squeezed into one page.

My font is 9.5 pt.

I have it broken into sections:

1. Name, and brief statement.

2. Education (School, GPA, List of self-study topics that aren’t on my transcript)

3. Programming and Experience (Projects I have made and a short description about them, game-jam awards, internship)

4. Music (How many years, some awards, ensembles I participate in or create with a short blurb (each one is very different))

5. Work history (A list of 4 things I did for work recently, no long term jobs just a couple week long ones)

6. Activities and community involvement (How many hours, volunteer co-teacher, leadership conference, CTE stuff, peer website, clubs)

To me the ones most important to present are (in order of importance) 1,2,3,4,6,2. I only include 5 because I want to show that I have done jobs.

I have gone through and tried to cut it down but a lot of things have descriptions that can’t be shortened, and a lot of the objects need to be there to show multi-dimensionality.

My question is, would it be better to keep it crowded, cut out content, or put it on two pages?

An idea is I could remove descriptions of the projects from the first page and instead dedicate the 2nd page to my projects. I could show screenshots and include shortened (easy to type) links to videos of them in action (although I doubt admissions people would go to them.

I am currently working out a revised version with better spacing, and less items on it. It would be great to have some people who would look at both versions when I am done, and tell me who they would admit between the two.