Can I Get Into College With My Resume

19, college, nothing to put on resume?

While you are not getting internships, other students are. You are justified in your fears that you may not be able to get a job, other students have experience you do not, which puts you behind the pack. I know some people who decide to never do any internships throughout college, they had to essentially do internships after college (meager pay) before they could get a real job, so they had to make up for it at some point.

High school is ancient history, who cares?

The real world wants you to focus on academics *and* involving yourself with opportunities like internships, maybe even join an organization that does social work even in the meantime. We all focused on academics, but that did not mean we shortcut-ed and spent our summers and winter breaks at school, education happens outside of school too, you know. I spent one summer in school, but the others I got internships because those are really important. Get an internship, everyone does. You need to compete with others, and you will be behind if you do not. People in college do not have a billion activities, most just have internships, and that has a lot of weight. The way you frame the situation ("I've chosen to focus on academics, but that's not really what the real world wants anymore...") is kind of insulting to be frank. People who work internships/do research throughout college are not "focusing on academics"? Silly.

Should I put my one semester of college down on my resume?

If you are using it for an education requirement for the job, maybe. Otherwise, unless you are continuing to attend that school (or they require college transcripts for some reason), it's only advertising that you couldn't hack it.

(Even if you dropped for non-academic reasons.)

I would omit it from a resume, but talk about it if asked about it, ESPECIALLY if your interviewing someone with a bachelor's or higher degree.

Now, if you go back, complete a bachelor's somewhere else, I would include it in the resume...

In a resume do you put under education your college if you haven't gradutated yet?

Here's what you do:

Education (in bold)
Major: Whatever Minor: Whatever
Whatever University, City, State
Degree expected: March 2010

Here's what you put when you are a couple of months away from graduation:

Education (in bold)
B.A. or B.S. in (Major) with a minor in whatever (if you have a minor) (put this in bold too)
Whatever University, City, State
Degree expected: March 2010 (Put your GPA if it's above 3.5 here)

Do detentions hurt your college resume a lot?

Your high school has a file on you/everyone. This isn't automatically sent to schools that you apply to. Detentions that are recorded in your high school file stay there when you leave.

You don't send colleges your high school file. You send colleges a transcript which shows all of your classes/grades. You also fill out an college application where you talk about yourself, school activities (like sports or student government), and public work like volunteering at a hospital. Sometimes you have to write an essay as well.

A resume is different (but somewhat related). You make your resume. A resume is used to when applying for employment. A resume is work and education history. It's you and your history on a sheet of paper for people to make decisions to interview you for jobs. The first step in applying for a job is sending the employer your resume. They will contact you back if they like your resume.

In my opinion, a good resume is critical to success.

Does community college look bad on a resume?

If your mom is paying for it, consider going to the second choice university for two years, then transferring to the first choice if you aren't happy.

However, if the community college has a transfer agreement with your first choice university, such that if you graduate with a certain GPA you are automatically accepted into the university, you're probably better off going to the community college.

Employers are only going to look at the "BS Communications, Springfield State University" that's listed on your resume or application, not which school every single credit comes from.