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I've got a tricky one for you guys this time.  I'm making up ds's activities resume and all the sources I've looked at suggest that you put your education at the top.  Diploma, school, date.  Then your honors, activities, community service, skills, and interests.

 

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Ruth in NZ

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I'm not familiar with an "activities resumé." Is this something required for New Zealand schools? Because the Common App will have a section for extracurriculars.

 

"Continuing full-time coursework through ABC Correspondence School and independent homeschool. Homeschool High School graduation June 2018". Or DE or whatever. I wouldn't put in the parent part - seems redundant to me.

 

Usually on resumés whatever is most recent is listed first. So, you could start with what he's doing now, and follow that with the certificate.

 

Dec 2016-current - blah, blah, blah, graduation June 2018

 

And then list the certificate under that.

 

Idk. Sorry, I'm not much help.

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Thanks hoggirl! I like your ideas. Another individual has suggested that I could dump the education section all together, which would fix my problem.

 

My understanding is that the activities resume is used for interviews, to hand to recommenders to help with recommendations, as a base for a real resume, as a supplement for kids who have too many activities/awards for the little spaces, etc.  It has been helpful for me to make it since I had not gathered all the info together in the same place yet.  Just google it and there are a ton of samples.  

 

 

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Ruth, just be aware that different interviewers have different requirements about what to give them. Some will say flat out that they don't want anything.

 

I would also leave out the education section or simply explain in a matter of fact sentence or two exactly what you wrote about DS being accelerated.

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I know you have your answer now, but for future readers I will say that it is very useful to have an activities resume in place, and, as Arch said, especially a modifiable one. It's also a good reference for filling out applications, as everything is gathered in one place.

 

My daughters never needed them for interviews, but some colleges do allow a resume as an attachment, and they are particularly useful for scholarship applications.

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I know you have your answer now, but for future readers I will say that it is very useful to have an activities resume in place, and, as Arch said, especially a modifiable one. It's also a good reference for filling out applications, as everything is gathered in one place.

 

My daughters never needed them for interviews, but some colleges do allow a resume as an attachment, and they are particularly useful for scholarship applications.

 

DS2 found it quite helpful to have one pulled together.  He did a rough draft, then we looked it over and brainstormed things that he'd overlooked.  We did this around Thanksgiving of junior year.  I think his older brother had to create one as a supplement for one of his college applications.  It was nice to have the resume done well in advance, because we found that we kept remembering various things that he'd done in the preceding years that were not on the resume.  

 

You think you won't forget, but life gets busy and you don't remember that think that he spent months on freshman year.

 

DS2 did use it quite a bit in filling out his applications.  His Common App went much faster than DS1's, because he wasn't trying to recall and input at the same time.

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