I am so thankful for you time and dedication to helping your viewers do well through all of these tips you have provided. Wish I was applying to your school just to meet you, lol, but there wasn't an online option for law school :/
Thank you for another great video! To me, seeing alumni being involved and adding value to UMich's community (whether online or in-person) years after graduation speaks volumes about their experience in school and ultimately the culture of UMich that made it enjoyable.
Thanks so much! I do have 12 years of work experience after high school. My resume is 2 pages. If most admissions people will be reading it on a computer, why don't I just make the format pageless (Google Docs)? Thanks!
Thanks for these videos! Curious about the suggestion that your resume should start with college - are there any legitimately impressive things from high school which would be exceptions to your rule? Or would anything & everything from high school be a bad look?
Thank you so much for this! One question: If we have been out of school for a substantial time (for me, ten years), do I need to include every job I have had since college? Some of them are very old and not really applicable to law school.
Definitely not-the resume isn’t meant to serve as a background check, and irrelevant info can be left on the cutting room floor. That said, if you’ve had steady employment, it is to your benefit that the reviewer understands that-don’t make omissions that will make it seem like you’ve had big gaps in your employment history; you can just be much briefer in your treatment of jobs that you think are less pertinent.
Great video Dean Z as usual just a question on this topic.What about if while in college you also work fulltime as well..what should be first? Thank you Dean Z
If I understand your question correctly, then my answer is: Put education at the top, and then jobs in reverse chronological order-but for jobs you held during the school year that are full-time, I would emphasize that by including something in the description along the lines of “(worked full-time throughout school year).”
Team Captain, top player in your state or city, team goes to State/National Championship accolades should probably be included as support for leadership ability.
@@alexanderd.9460 Unless it’s something exceptional like being an olympian, it looks immature. No one will care that an applicant was the captain of their varsity soccer team when they were 16. An good applicant should have more recent instances of leadership that they can point to anyway. Good rule of thumb is not to put in on your resume if you wouldn’t put it on a job application - this is professional school after all.
@@bendavidson1210 A* Most good law schools are looking for experiences where students have been leaders. This isn't a job application. Many students won't get the chance to actually lead outside of high school and collegiate sports teams unless they have seriously entered the workforce. Sports are important at schools and many of the people in admissions will know how difficult it is to be the best and lead the best even at the high school level. It is similar to awards in chess. It doesn't hurt.
@@alexanderd.9460 There are tons of ways to get leadership experience in college lol you can join the eboard of a student org, be an editor on the school newspaper, be an RA, be a teaching assistant, be a student ambassador or an orientation advisor, run for student government, get research experience in a lab and then lead a research project, and those are just a few examples. A strong applicant for the “T14” schools has probably done one or more commonly a few of those things. If you have to reach back all the way to high school to get examples of leadership it’s usually not a great sign. Anyway, we can agree to disagree I have no desire to keep going back and forth about this.
This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me notwithstanding (?) my admission to Michigan Law.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos! They've been great for clarifying this otherwise opaque process.
Thank you for picking my question! This is very clear and helpful.
I am so thankful for you time and dedication to helping your viewers do well through all of these tips you have provided. Wish I was applying to your school just to meet you, lol, but there wasn't an online option for law school :/
Thank you for another great video! To me, seeing alumni being involved and adding value to UMich's community (whether online or in-person) years after graduation speaks volumes about their experience in school and ultimately the culture of UMich that made it enjoyable.
Thanks so much!
I do have 12 years of work experience after high school. My resume is 2 pages. If most admissions people will be reading it on a computer, why don't I just make the format pageless (Google Docs)? Thanks!
Thanks Dean Z! What do you think about including work from a gap year before college?
What if you have been a mom for the last 18 years and dedicated your life to that so your resume lacks?
Thanks for these videos! Curious about the suggestion that your resume should start with college - are there any legitimately impressive things from high school which would be exceptions to your rule? Or would anything & everything from high school be a bad look?
this is interesting, thank you!
Thank you so much for this! One question: If we have been out of school for a substantial time (for me, ten years), do I need to include every job I have had since college? Some of them are very old and not really applicable to law school.
Definitely not-the resume isn’t meant to serve as a background check, and irrelevant info can be left on the cutting room floor. That said, if you’ve had steady employment, it is to your benefit that the reviewer understands that-don’t make omissions that will make it seem like you’ve had big gaps in your employment history; you can just be much briefer in your treatment of jobs that you think are less pertinent.
Thank you for sharing! Amazing information.
Great video Dean Z as usual just a question on this topic.What about if while in college you also work fulltime as well..what should be first?
Thank you Dean Z
If I understand your question correctly, then my answer is: Put education at the top, and then jobs in reverse chronological order-but for jobs you held during the school year that are full-time, I would emphasize that by including something in the description along the lines of “(worked full-time throughout school year).”
Should you ever include high school accolades that involve sports?
No
Team Captain, top player in your state or city, team goes to State/National Championship accolades should probably be included as support for leadership ability.
@@alexanderd.9460 Unless it’s something exceptional like being an olympian, it looks immature. No one will care that an applicant was the captain of their varsity soccer team when they were 16. An good applicant should have more recent instances of leadership that they can point to anyway. Good rule of thumb is not to put in on your resume if you wouldn’t put it on a job application - this is professional school after all.
@@bendavidson1210 A*
Most good law schools are looking for experiences where students have been leaders. This isn't a job application. Many students won't get the chance to actually lead outside of high school and collegiate sports teams unless they have seriously entered the workforce. Sports are important at schools and many of the people in admissions will know how difficult it is to be the best and lead the best even at the high school level. It is similar to awards in chess. It doesn't hurt.
@@alexanderd.9460 There are tons of ways to get leadership experience in college lol you can join the eboard of a student org, be an editor on the school newspaper, be an RA, be a teaching assistant, be a student ambassador or an orientation advisor, run for student government, get research experience in a lab and then lead a research project, and those are just a few examples. A strong applicant for the “T14” schools has probably done one or more commonly a few of those things. If you have to reach back all the way to high school to get examples of leadership it’s usually not a great sign. Anyway, we can agree to disagree I have no desire to keep going back and forth about this.