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By: marajcat
Jul 01, 2009

A good high school resume can make a really important impression on your colleges when you start sending off applications this fall. With many top-notch universities, resumes are one of the only ways besides your essays they can figure out what differentiates one straight-A student from another. Think of it as your calling card; it gives the college a taste of who you are, what you do, and what makes you tick, letting them take a peek past that uninformative transcript to see whether you’d be a good candidate for their school.

By: marajcat
Jun 28, 2009

As a high schooler, college applications have to be one of the more daunting tasks you’ll encounter in all four years, hands down. You can first begin to sense it around September and October of senior year when the air in the senior hallway always seems to be thick with flying rumors about what so-and-so’s older sibling told them about college apps, or the latest hushed speculation of where people might be applying. The trickiest part of this is simply wading through the reams of advice you'll get, trying to figure out what's sensible, and what's bogus.

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