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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4604722" data-attributes="member: 35909">Thanks, it's certainly different.  I'll try using your style resume for a while.  I added in details, but I have some issues with the high school portion.  First of all, I had a 4.25 GPA on a system that's supposed to give 4.3 for an A+.  However, our school gave +1 point for Honors and AP classes, of which I had for half my schedule, and -1 for anything below "college prep" level.  So, I'm never sure what to say was the maximum.  5.3 is the absolute highest, but it's somewhat misleading and makes my GPA look only a little above average at a glance, when in fact I was in the top 10% for my class for GPA and I think only the top two students cracked the 5.0 mark at all (and barely).  This was a graduating class of ~340, and I was ranked ~#25, going from memory.The other thing is, I didn't realize if high school or even middle school achievements were worth providing.  I was High Honor Roll in high school and middle school, and at least qualified for the Spanish Honors Society* if I never actually sent in the paperwork (I really can't remember any more).  In high school, I also received an award for "Rhode Island Scholar" -- basically, an award for people who scored in the top 10% on the SAT.  In middle school I had two National Social Studies Olympiad awards (top scorer in my school) and some presidential academic recognition award (certificate signed by the president, several got them so it wasn't that unique) that I'd have to search for to even remember the exact name of.  I doubt any of those are worth putting on my resume, but figured I'd list them out anyway just in case.*Perhaps some clarification on why i think it's fruitless to add this: While I took Honors level Spanish and got an A+ every single year in it, I never was interested in the language, and only took it because more interesting ones (to me) like Japanese, Latin, or Russian weren't available.  In the 5 years since high school ended, I've basically forgotten everything I learned about Spanish.[sblock]Also...the class was easy ( well, to me; some flunked) and provided a nice grade boost. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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