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> Do GPAs go on your CV? I didn't know that.

No idea what a "official" CV is like. I know I like to see a GPA listed for a college student.

> How can I make those more specific? In my eyes they seemed like pretty specific details to me.

What, precisely, made your internship valuable? Why should I read it as anything more than "wrote some code in C#"?

> I don't know how to compress a research paper into a two sentence resume description. Even the abstract is longer than that by an order of magnitude.

Yup. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. More exactly: What did you do in this project? What results did you produce? Did a paper come from it?

> People care about either of those??

I do. Others might not. Tutoring & leadership indicates soft skills, which are, hmm, about 50% of my job... at least. Honors indicates drive & capability beyond the usual "Got Degree, Where's A Job" attitude of the average college student.

Interviewing, IMO, is idiosyncratic. Different people look for different things.




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