<p>Would attaching a r</p>
<p>I love you for using the appropriate diacritical markings.</p>
<p>If you’re doing the Common App by paper, you can simply make a full-fledged resume and write something like “see attached resume” under the EC section. If you’re doing it online, just do as much as you can online and add whatever you have to (descriptions, other things you didn’t have room to write, etc) on a separate thing. I don’t remember if there’s somewhere to attach extra information on the online Common App, but I gave my resume to my guidance counselor to send in with the transcript/recs.</p>
<p>Much obliged. </p>
<p>I’m sending the Common App by paper, so I’m just going to do what you told me to do. You haven’t answered the other question, however: is it a good thing?</p>
<p>Resumes are perfectly fine. I prefer that you make an extension of the activities list (to include a short description). It’s more reader-friendly. I think resumes, the kinds that look like you’re applying for a job, are more of a hassle, but I don’t think colleges care, as long as they get the info. Make sure you fill in the chart anyway–the instructions specifically state that.</p>
<p>Right. I have included a brief synopsis in my Activities, including my rise to a leadership status. </p>
<p>Is it good to be head of two clubs and founder of two? I mean, is it a plus?</p>
<p>It is a plus, because it suggests that you’re very active in the clubs and care enough about the club to actually take on responsibility and time to head that club. But you should never be president of a club or something just to impress a college.</p>
<p>No, my reasoning is because it’s an interest I have had. I’ve been a journalist for several years, and involved in literature since I was born. I’m an eco-nut, so I decided to start an environmentalist club, and I want students to be free and witty and funny, so I decided to restart our school’s Improv Club. I’m trying to think of witty names for it.</p>
<p>At one of the two info sessions I’ve been to (JHU’s), the admissions representative made it very clear that resumes are nice and considered heavily, and that if you have a lot to say in an additional document, go for it; they’ll read it! (He did mention a “three-minute rule” for supplements, though, and I’m sure something similar applies to this – so don’t attach a 10-page summary of everything you’ve ever done.)</p>
<p>I was thinking a nine-page briefing, but I get the idea. Thanks.</p>