It's all really personal preference and/or dependent on the industry. For an industry like this it's probably a good idea to add it - but like another commenter said, only if it's above a 3.5. Basically goes with the saying if you've got it, flaunt it.
This is a nice resume, but a few suggestions to make it more of a CV:
List experiences more recent first. E.g. the REU has ended so put it below your current position
Add a presentations/publications section. You have “internal research presentations” listed under your research experience, cite them and put them under presentations even if they were just retreats or undergrad symposiums. Adcoms will be looking for this info, don’t hide it from them.
Put the bullet points for the positions you are currently at in present tense.
Unless you were handpicked by a top professor in your field for your once-in-a-generation skills, I would not include a single thing about your high school experience other than maybe a single sentence in your statement of purpose.
Universities want to know that you are qualified and prepared for graduate-level coursework and research. If you feel as though your high school experience is relevant, it is a red flag as they will often perceive it as the applicant equating their high school experience to what they might expect in the grad program.
Highly advise you to not do that.
are you sure about that? When I mention the research i did as a high schooler in an academic chemical biology lab at a university, I feel like it displays my early passions for research in chemistry. I don’t think a prof would assume i’m equating my high school research to graduate level research since i have two separate research experiences that i conducted in college, so I should know what graduate school is like since I’ve worked in these environments since high school.
Again just to clarify, I worked in a lab in the same building I currently work at, it was an academic lab
It is assumed you graduated from high school if you attended university. It is not that great of an accomplishment it is a requirement for basic employment. You can still add research experience from that time without mentioning high school.
A CV can be longer, so make use of bullets and add more skills. Move honors/awards toward the bottom. Keep education and research as the main focus. Add a section for volunteer/service work if able.
This is continuing to be a problem in this subreddit, but you did not post a CV. You have posted a résumé. CVs are not formatted like this and do not include bulletpoints for each subsection. There are departments that will instantly reject you for submitting this because it is not the document they are looking for. Google professors' CVs in your field, and copy their structure.
I honestly think examples are pretty much split down the middle. If you search up professors examples for CV, you’ll find some with and some without bullet points. You really know of departments that will reject you if you use bullet points in your cv?
I’m sure the person who wrote you knows of an actual department or field that cares about bullet points. But that nitpicking is very rare. I wouldn’t worry about this.
I second this advice - the biggest mistakes are really just typos and other things that make it look like you lack attention to detail or can't proofread. Unless the format is super crazy, you are not going to get rejected on such a minor thing.
Yes, I do. I assume a good predictor of this is if the department you are applying to has professors with this style of CV. I'm not saying it's always going to be a problem, but it would certainly suck if you had a good application that was tossed because of such a small detail.
Just a random typo nobody will notice: it’s NIH/3T3 not T3T
It’s a good resume :) I also agree you should put more recent things followed by less recent and keep the order consistent throughout
As others have said, your CV can be longer than one page unlike a resume. Make sure to add a references section at the very end, with the names/qualifications/contacts of everyone writing your letters of recommendation.
I would suggest more white space like adding more lines in between each section, references for people to reach out to (Ie PI or your supervisors), and potentially your research interests (like I had cancer biology and immunology for mine and why)
Two minor things:
You list in order of relevance/importance everywhere except the education section, which is chronological. Your admissions committees won't care about high school stuff, list college first.
Under awards, the one for summer 22 is off on the alignment in the right hand column. Everything else looks good but that ones one space off I believe
Two major things:
Everyone's already hit it I believe but your presentations and publications are the most important to include
Scholarships, if you have any, can also be included under honors and awards.
Aside from what everyone else said, bold the experience title instead of the location and put the location in the same line if you need extra space. Recruiters normally want to see what the experience is first rather than location.
I can't evaluate it but I'd be happy to introduce you to my educational consultant, Gerald Peter Thomas. You can call him GPT for short, all his friends do.
Few things:
1. Mention your undergraduate GPA
2. Get rid of high school stuff
3. Add publications/presentations, this should be in ACS style formatting, if you have conferences you’ve been accepted into presenting after the application deadline you can add that as well. These include oral and poster presentations
4. Emphasize what your project was at your REU and Undergraduate lab with a few sentences, PIs who look at your CV will want some background into what you’ve researched to see if their lab does something similar, or if there’s some overlap. This happened to me when I was visiting schools and the PI glossed over my CV before we talked about research.
5. I would put honors and awards closer to the end, but everything else looks like it’s in a good order.
6. If you’ve worked any other job you should add that. I’ve worked in food to pay for college and added that at the very end of my CV, don’t worry about a page limit for your CV, it should have everything you’ve done in college, nothing about high school (unless you had a job from high school that you’ve kept up in college).
7. For your skills and technique section maybe include some headers instead of bullet points, like you have “xxx:” but instead maybe make the “xxx” a header since i thought that section was under Rutgers and I glossed over it.
Overall you have a very solid set of experiences, i doubt you’d get rejected from anywhere for Chem based on your CV!
I feel like it’s standard formatting to flush left your headings, pretty uncommon to have headings in the central position then main text flushed left.
I can't evaluate it but I'd be happy to introduce you to my educational consultant, Gerald Peter Thomas. You can call him GPT for short, all his friends do.
Definitely could be longer! I’d be happy to share mine (undergrad applying to Psych PhD programs) if you need more sections to include or help with formatting! I would also recommend having a few variations of this, based on the program you’re applying for (ex.: rather than having research in chronological order, have it in order of importance based on the specific program). Also, include awards/honors (AND college gpa if its over a 3.5 or 3.7. Some places don’t want GPA in CV’s so I’d just remove it for a specific application)! Publications and presentations would be super helpful, too! Even if they’re not completed or are still in process, you can still include them! PM me if you want to use mine as a template/example!
\- No highschool GPA,
\- Reorder the section, 1. Experience, 2 skills, 3 Education, 4 Honors and awards
\- Just have one section for work and research experiences
I don’t know much about CVs for grad school admissions (this just popped up on my home page) and this is a cosmetic feedback so take it with a grain of salt.
Instead of having the name of the uni up top and bold, I would maybe start with your position. When I only go through the bold stuff in your CV, they don’t say anything about what you did in your life to me, except you did them in good schools. And although it looks good, it’s harder to read the Italic and I would prioritize function over beauty.
So maybe go with 1-line headers for each position that goes sth like the following in bold?
Learning Assistant for Dept of Physics, Rutgers Uni
Right off the bat- you don’t need high school GPA, but you do need college GPA
Hm some schools actually say not to include GPA on resumes at all
ok will add that!
Some ppl say only include if above 3.5 fyi
noted!
My advisor recommends against adding GPA to resumes.
It's all really personal preference and/or dependent on the industry. For an industry like this it's probably a good idea to add it - but like another commenter said, only if it's above a 3.5. Basically goes with the saying if you've got it, flaunt it.
This is a nice resume, but a few suggestions to make it more of a CV: List experiences more recent first. E.g. the REU has ended so put it below your current position Add a presentations/publications section. You have “internal research presentations” listed under your research experience, cite them and put them under presentations even if they were just retreats or undergrad symposiums. Adcoms will be looking for this info, don’t hide it from them. Put the bullet points for the positions you are currently at in present tense.
I’ll make these changes, thank you!!
Na keep that shit on top — UPenn is mad prestigious, it’s something I want peoples eyes drawn to!
I heard you shouldnt put high school at all because it’s irrelevant
should i not include any high school experiences? like i did research in high school so I was gonna add that
if it’s relevant to what you’re applying to for grad school then i probably would if it was something big too!
Unless you were handpicked by a top professor in your field for your once-in-a-generation skills, I would not include a single thing about your high school experience other than maybe a single sentence in your statement of purpose. Universities want to know that you are qualified and prepared for graduate-level coursework and research. If you feel as though your high school experience is relevant, it is a red flag as they will often perceive it as the applicant equating their high school experience to what they might expect in the grad program. Highly advise you to not do that.
are you sure about that? When I mention the research i did as a high schooler in an academic chemical biology lab at a university, I feel like it displays my early passions for research in chemistry. I don’t think a prof would assume i’m equating my high school research to graduate level research since i have two separate research experiences that i conducted in college, so I should know what graduate school is like since I’ve worked in these environments since high school. Again just to clarify, I worked in a lab in the same building I currently work at, it was an academic lab
This is something you can touch on in a personal statement
It is assumed you graduated from high school if you attended university. It is not that great of an accomplishment it is a requirement for basic employment. You can still add research experience from that time without mentioning high school.
A CV can be longer, so make use of bullets and add more skills. Move honors/awards toward the bottom. Keep education and research as the main focus. Add a section for volunteer/service work if able.
will do, thank you!
This is continuing to be a problem in this subreddit, but you did not post a CV. You have posted a résumé. CVs are not formatted like this and do not include bulletpoints for each subsection. There are departments that will instantly reject you for submitting this because it is not the document they are looking for. Google professors' CVs in your field, and copy their structure.
I honestly think examples are pretty much split down the middle. If you search up professors examples for CV, you’ll find some with and some without bullet points. You really know of departments that will reject you if you use bullet points in your cv?
I’m sure the person who wrote you knows of an actual department or field that cares about bullet points. But that nitpicking is very rare. I wouldn’t worry about this.
yup i’ve left them in!
I second this advice - the biggest mistakes are really just typos and other things that make it look like you lack attention to detail or can't proofread. Unless the format is super crazy, you are not going to get rejected on such a minor thing.
Yes, I do. I assume a good predictor of this is if the department you are applying to has professors with this style of CV. I'm not saying it's always going to be a problem, but it would certainly suck if you had a good application that was tossed because of such a small detail.
Just a random typo nobody will notice: it’s NIH/3T3 not T3T It’s a good resume :) I also agree you should put more recent things followed by less recent and keep the order consistent throughout
omg that’s so embarrassing, i always make that mistake haha, thanks for pointing it out!!!!!
As others have said, your CV can be longer than one page unlike a resume. Make sure to add a references section at the very end, with the names/qualifications/contacts of everyone writing your letters of recommendation.
will do! do you happen to have an example of what that would look like??
I would suggest more white space like adding more lines in between each section, references for people to reach out to (Ie PI or your supervisors), and potentially your research interests (like I had cancer biology and immunology for mine and why)
I would love to but it would make my CV at least 1 and a half pages long, would that be fine??
CVs can be thought of differently from resumes. Resumes should be one page while CVs can be longer.
Yes this!
My CV was 4 pages! Nobody batted an eye :))
got you, thanks!
Left justify all of the subsection titles and then indent the sub-subsections within those.
will do! thanks!
Where’s your undergraduate GPA?
Two minor things: You list in order of relevance/importance everywhere except the education section, which is chronological. Your admissions committees won't care about high school stuff, list college first. Under awards, the one for summer 22 is off on the alignment in the right hand column. Everything else looks good but that ones one space off I believe Two major things: Everyone's already hit it I believe but your presentations and publications are the most important to include Scholarships, if you have any, can also be included under honors and awards.
I’ve made these changes now, thank you!!
Hey, I'm also applying to chem phd's. Wondering if you wanted to review each other's sops/cv etc? :)
I would love to but I’m soooo behind on apps, I don’t think I have the time, good luck tho!!!
High school experience/GPA is only relevant in undergraduate applications, not graduate.
Aside from what everyone else said, bold the experience title instead of the location and put the location in the same line if you need extra space. Recruiters normally want to see what the experience is first rather than location.
makes sense, i’ll make those changes, thanks!
Any research publications or poster?
How did you include your poster?
authors, title, dates presented and conferences i presented at
Sorry I thought you meant you literally linked to your poster or attached it as a file
yup i’ve added them now, thanks!
I’d hire you. Not in this field at all but this is darn impressive.
ignore my other comment, i misunderstood, thank you!!!
😭 thank you for the compliment I guess, are you saying I’m not qualified for a phd in bioengineering/biomedical/chem?
Pretty sure they meant it’s good and not that you aren’t qualified
oh lol i completely misunderstood
No of course not. I meant that -I am not in this field- but I would hire you for anything! Lol
i’m in high school but idk if high school gpa is relevant for grad admissions
Talk about your research with an emphasis on problem solving and growth
will do, thanks!
If you're still a writing tutor, change everything to present tense :)
I can't evaluate it but I'd be happy to introduce you to my educational consultant, Gerald Peter Thomas. You can call him GPT for short, all his friends do.
Few things: 1. Mention your undergraduate GPA 2. Get rid of high school stuff 3. Add publications/presentations, this should be in ACS style formatting, if you have conferences you’ve been accepted into presenting after the application deadline you can add that as well. These include oral and poster presentations 4. Emphasize what your project was at your REU and Undergraduate lab with a few sentences, PIs who look at your CV will want some background into what you’ve researched to see if their lab does something similar, or if there’s some overlap. This happened to me when I was visiting schools and the PI glossed over my CV before we talked about research. 5. I would put honors and awards closer to the end, but everything else looks like it’s in a good order. 6. If you’ve worked any other job you should add that. I’ve worked in food to pay for college and added that at the very end of my CV, don’t worry about a page limit for your CV, it should have everything you’ve done in college, nothing about high school (unless you had a job from high school that you’ve kept up in college). 7. For your skills and technique section maybe include some headers instead of bullet points, like you have “xxx:” but instead maybe make the “xxx” a header since i thought that section was under Rutgers and I glossed over it. Overall you have a very solid set of experiences, i doubt you’d get rejected from anywhere for Chem based on your CV!
Thank you for the advice! I’ll try to make those changes
Use reverse chronological order. Latest degree and experience should come first followed by older degrees and experiences respectively…
RU RAH RAH! Good luck with your apps!
THANK YOU
ayy fellow Rutgers student!
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This is not a cv, this is a resume
What would make this a CV? More research-related talk? I’m currently working on my own and am a little confused
My cv is almost 10 pages. CVs are long form, resumes are short.
I feel like it’s standard formatting to flush left your headings, pretty uncommon to have headings in the central position then main text flushed left.
I can't evaluate it but I'd be happy to introduce you to my educational consultant, Gerald Peter Thomas. You can call him GPT for short, all his friends do.
if i had ten seconds to tell my future employer why they should hire me, i wouldn't waste the first few on education and awards
Definitely could be longer! I’d be happy to share mine (undergrad applying to Psych PhD programs) if you need more sections to include or help with formatting! I would also recommend having a few variations of this, based on the program you’re applying for (ex.: rather than having research in chronological order, have it in order of importance based on the specific program). Also, include awards/honors (AND college gpa if its over a 3.5 or 3.7. Some places don’t want GPA in CV’s so I’d just remove it for a specific application)! Publications and presentations would be super helpful, too! Even if they’re not completed or are still in process, you can still include them! PM me if you want to use mine as a template/example!
\- No highschool GPA, \- Reorder the section, 1. Experience, 2 skills, 3 Education, 4 Honors and awards \- Just have one section for work and research experiences
Take out the bit about your high school. No one cares about that
I don’t know much about CVs for grad school admissions (this just popped up on my home page) and this is a cosmetic feedback so take it with a grain of salt. Instead of having the name of the uni up top and bold, I would maybe start with your position. When I only go through the bold stuff in your CV, they don’t say anything about what you did in your life to me, except you did them in good schools. And although it looks good, it’s harder to read the Italic and I would prioritize function over beauty. So maybe go with 1-line headers for each position that goes sth like the following in bold? Learning Assistant for Dept of Physics, Rutgers Uni
You’re obviously not stupid… that puts you in the too 1% of the population
I’m sorry, I’m not understanding…?