May 24, 2023

#18 - 7 Ways To Beef Up Your Resume

43 minutes

How your teen can beef up their resume!

There are more colleges than there are shopping malls, Apple stores, and national parks, combined. With over 4000 colleges and universities, I can promise you that your teen WILL get into college. The average acceptance rate at colleges across the country is over 60%.

Becoming appropriately involved in activities will help you in your admissions journey. Every college-bound teen should be active in something at school and/or possibly outside of school.

For example if a student belongs to a few clubs, organizations, athletics or performing arts, and shows real commitment to those few, this will help boost the application.

Not sure what this looks like?

Choose 1-2 main activities that take up 3-10 hours per week in their high season. For example, service organization on campus, MUN, Robotics, school musical, a sport, Math or Writing Tutors, student government.

Then, if you combine that with 2-4 clubs that you enjoy but likely don’t take more than 5 hours per month, such as Book Club, Art Club, Diversity Club, Compost Club, etc. and/or something outside of school like: Church, Youth & Government, Girl or Boy Scouts or something similar -- You are good to go!!

Click below to listen to my podcast about beefing up the resume if:

Your teen has at least ONE college on their list that admits fewer than 50% of their applicant pool, which is considered a ‘selective’ college.

Or if your teen has at least ONE college on their list admitting under 35%, which are considered ‘highly selective’ colleges.

OR any colleges admitting fewer than 10% of applicants, considered ‘most selective’ or ‘dream’ colleges

Best Selling Author. TEDx Speaker. College Admission Expert. Football Enthusiast.

Dr. Cynthia Colón is the Amazon Best Selling author of Be Committed! Get Admitted., and the Spanish version, Con Determinación. ¡Logra la admisión! She is the national host of Destination YOUniversity podcast and founder of College Essay Bootcamp and Dream College Academy. “Cyndie” grew up with 14 Tíos and Tías with advice on everything except how to get admitted to college. Cynthia's immigrant mother had the courage to ask for help and changed the trajectory of her life. Because of Lydia (Mom), Cynthia is an alumna of USC, Columbia University, and UCLA. Dr. Colón is on a mission to help more public school students get private school service to access top 100 colleges. Dr. Colón delivered her first TEDx Talk, “College Admissions Is NOT Fair,” in Los Angeles in 2023. She has been featured on KTLA, ABC, NBC, FOX 5, KCAL, WGN, WPIX.

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