<p>I have completed a resume to include with my applications as requested by several schools. However, should I include an objective on the resume? If so, any suggestions or resources?</p>
<p>I have never heard of doing that.</p>
<p>A lot of the kids at my school do when applying to top schools. Then again, they usually don’t get in. I think it looks awkward and pretentious, so I didn’t.</p>
<p>Thank you…anyone else? Perhaps someone that has spoken to an admissions officer about resumes?</p>
<p>If you are applying to HYPS-caliber schools, 95% dislike resumes.</p>
<p>Resumes… are not good. What new do they tell about you? that you do a hundred billion things just like every other applicant? Highlight the things that are the most important… its not the quantity but the quality of your EC’s…</p>
<p>My friend who got into Cornell did personal objectives like goals he wanted to accomplish during his senior year. I did the same.</p>
<p>If colleges don’t like extra LoRs, why would they like an extra piece of paper made by the student themselves? IMO LoR > Resumes and they don’t like those so why even bother?</p>
<p>Some schools like ILR at Cornell require resumes. Otherwise its prolly not necessary. I didnt include objectives and kept ito to one page as to not turn off the reader from it being too long.
cheers,
Mike</p>
<p>If by objective you mean life goal or something, I wouldn’t put it on my resume. If it is really something important to you, I might write an essay about it; that’s what I did. A theme of my Stanford application essays was my major goal for the future and how Stanford will go really far in helping me achieve that goal.</p>
<p>Your objective is clear: to get into the school to which you are submitting the resume. You don’t need to state it. It’s pretentious.</p>
<p>Include in a resume only something that is not apparent from the rest of your application.</p>
<p>Ah, man…
I already submitted with a resume. It had quite a few things that weren’t mentioned in the rest of application including college courses taken, immigration status, and some other EC’s… Is it really that bad? I know the CommonApp said to at least mention college courses taken in Additional Info.</p>
<p>My D submitted a clever resume with all of her applications. The objective statement was just a quick blurb describing her in a nutshell. It actually was quite effective and she did get into all of her schools. It just ties in all of the information in a tidy way that you cannot get from all of the papers that have to be submitted.
PM me if you want more details.</p>