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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
This is going to make me sound terrible but I didn't put ANYTHING sorority on my resume that wasn't something I felt would impress an employer/grad program. Ex: I was Awards chair once. I made the awards we handed out at formal. I didn't really think that needed to be on my resume. Birthday Sunshine chair? Nope. Public Relations chair? Yes.
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It seems that college advisers/career services offices encourage these kids to put anything and everything on their resume to fill up the space. Because, let's face it, most college kids don't have much to put on their resumes.
Over the past year, I have had two college students contact me through various networks asking to talk to me about being a lawyer/professional in our area. One kid was a senior had so much stuff on his resume - but he was a rare case where a lot of it was actually good stuff. I helped him make it work for him more. Quantify things wherever possible and list accomplishments for each activity. For instance, helped grow membership by X percent. Not only does it show the results of your leadership, but they make great talking points for interviews.
The other student was a sophomore and had almost nothing on her resume. She was a member of a honors GLO and filled up half a page with BS descriptions of her activities in that GLO that I knew were BS and meaningless. I called her out on it, and explained to her the kinds of things she should get involved in. It was her only activity, she didn't work (the only employment she'd ever had was one summer working as a cashier) - I asked her what she did with all of her time. To me, I'm not all that impressed if someone got good grades in undergrad but didn't hold down a job or have very active participation in other activities.
In general, though, most law schools don't really care much about undergrad extracurriculars. That is, unless you had some sort of really unique and fantastic experience, or something high profile - student body president or something of the sort. Or if it's a law school with interviews, that might be more important. A non-elected position in a GLO isn't going to mean much.