College Resume?

I'm a junior right now and during the summer I plan on preparing for college admissions (by practicing writing essays and composing a resume) so I won't be bombared in the fall.





I've asked alot of my senior friends about the college process (what colleges they applied, what their resume was like, their GPA and scores, extracurriculars...)and my parents have also helped by asking their friends as well.





Looking at my cousin's resume (who got accepted into some college that started with a C (not Cornell or community college)), it's FILLED with all these activities from 9th grade to her senior year. She has good grades and works hard... her mom helped her ALOT on the college process.





Anyways her resume was around 2 pages long, single spaced, and I just glanced through it and it had every single little thing my cousin did, as well as the years she participated in.





Is it good to have so much activities on your resume? I don't remember EVERY single one I did.





I will add more.

College Resume?
No, the best way to fill a resume is to do it with things that actually support your job. When I went to college I wanted to be in music. So my "resume" (none of the colleges ever asked for one, but I did have a list of experiences that I used to fill out applications) included all of the really important music stuff I had been doing. But I didn't even put all the music stuff (because I had a lot), just the important stuff that was attached to an honor or that I had been doing for several consecutive years. That is the most impressive.





People only look at a resume or application for a few minutes (sometimes seconds), so it's just important to get the really big things on there that they will see right away. The best is if you have some type of connecting theme throughout that also relates with what you want to do when you get there. Even if that theme is just "leadership" or "volunteering" it is still impressive. But don't freak out! It's really not as big of a deal as it seems right now.
Reply:Colleges like to see QUALITY rather than QUANTITY. If you only have 5 or 6 extra-curriculars, but are involved in them, it'll look better than 14 that you aren't involved in or committed to.