thegasman said:
Chill out. Nobody wants to read a bunch of fluff about how great you are anyway. Too many details on your cv will cause most pd's to turn the page to the next app. This is a professional application and should be very concise. These people will be reading thousands of applications and don't have time to read the details of your research. Keep it BASIC.
This isn't a tedious list of stuff with every little detail of everything I ever did, but to give you an example, this is ONE grant:
NIH Student Training Fellowship (Molecular Basis of Differentiation and Development - T32HD07325) in association with UT - MD Anderson Cancer Center - 2000-2002.
And I have TWO of the stupid things (the other one is in association with Baylor COM, which is a different school, so I have to say "in assoc with"). They're competitive, and since I'm applying to combo Pedi and Medical Genetics programs that are research intensive, they want to know about grants.
SO, I've cut down to less than 510 characters (509, in one case), and that is LITERALLY four-five lines of text.
I hate standardized applications. It reminds me of when I was applying for med school and they were just starting to use computers (dinosaur age, I know). The program wouldn't let me list all of my classes for my sophomore year. Somehow, I had taken "too many" hours.
God knows I'm not a braggart (if the Step 1 scores here are to be believed, I'm a real dunce!
). But I know that there are many people who did a TON of stuff or won a ton of awards who won't be able to include everything. I've done a lot because I've been in school for NINE years (not including undergrad - ugh). But 510 characters is not 510 words. It's only 4-5 lines. Honestly, my CV is almost 2pgs and looks very clean. But most of it is research related (grants, poster awards, etc), not "worlds best medical student" (cause I'm not!).
Why can't we just scan in a PDF of our CV?
