Hey all,
Very specific question here. Basically, I’m going to be part of a local research team for a study being done by a large national non profit. I’m just wondering how I would put that in my resume.
To give more detail, I wouldn’t be listed among the primary authors, but my name would be in the appendix listed under my team. I suppose I’m curious how one cites that in a resume, or if I even should.
Thanks!
I've always been someone with interests on the strange side. I don't mean illegal, but I was definitely always the oddball. I turned some of that oddness into deep involvement in ECs during college, but now I wonder if it will be too weird for admissions? Thoughts?
Hey all,
I was thinking of writing a gpa addendum. My gpa isn’t low at all, but it is below medians for my dream schools. The thing is, I do have a concrete reason why my gpa is lower (disability). I fear it will look weird to have an addendum with my gpa, but I’ve also heard that if you have a clear reason, you should mention it. Thoughts?
Anyone else have this issue.
When I started my LSAT journey, lr was my weakpoint and RC my strong suit. I could typically go -1 or -2 on RC, while LR was typically -5 to -7. These days, I’m usually -1 to -2 on LR - maybe -3 if I have a particularly tough section, while RC is now my biggest killer, usually netting me about a -5 on actual prep tests. A lot of my mistakes are, admittedly, reading errors where I’m just not picking up the info in the passage. It almost feels like I’ve switched all my reading focus from RC to LR, lol
I feel a bit ridiculous being so anxious. One LOR was from a professor who straight up said it was an honor to write me one. The other professor I wasn't as close with, but I took a few small seminar classes with him and he's an insanely nice guy. For some reason, my brain keeps telling me he wrote a bad lor, even though the guy is super nice.
I keep replaying really minor details in my head. Like, I thanked him multiple times for writing the letter, but I didn't respond to his last email, which was really just 'okay, I'll have it in by that date, and I'll message you when I send it in.' I keep thinking he must have thought I was rude. He sent the letter in like a month later, early in the morning, and didn't message me. I wonder if that's a bad sign, but also, the dude is a long time professor who probably gets up early to do work anyway, and he probably just forgot to message me.
Logically, I think I'm taking a bunch of tiny things that really don't matter and getting stressed over them....
Hey all,
So when I was in undergrad, I was a leader in an org that, to be blunt, had a strange sounding name. The actual mission of the org was pretty commendable, and it was an official university org, but the name sounds a bit culty because the original founder had a weird sense of humor. I did a lot of work with this org that I’m proud of, but is it a bad idea to include it?
@JacobBaska
Hi Jake,
Thanks for taking the time to answer this. I will say, I do think this one is legitimately odd.
For example, I was an executive in a club in undergrad that did a lot of commendable work. It was a non-denominational, ‘religious’ - I put that in quotes because that’s what the Student Activities codes us as even though we aren’t technically religious - organization that’s main goal was to bring together people from diverse backgrounds, especially religious, and get them to interact with each other and have conversations. Tense work, but we had a lot of people walk away with changed perspectives, or at least new understandings of issues from someone else’s pov. We especially had a lot of success in the fraught past few years.
I’m proud of this work, and I think it reflects well on me that I helped to engender these conversations. The issue is that the founder was a dude who had a really odd sense of humor, so he decided to give the org a weird sounding name - think ‘The Dark Church’, or something along those lines. So while I’m more than happy to talk about the work I did, I’m afraid admissions officers will look at the strange name and go ‘oh, no.’