#DESTROY MY RESUME

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opaque tide
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Imo unless you’re applying to academic roles, it just seems like filler to include LaTeX

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Also just spell out LaTeX, don’t use the \latex command. Might be more OCR friendly.

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Language/tools/libraries goes into a separate skills section usually.

gilded thicket
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idk wtf youre talking about lmao

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its def possible to grad early with junior standing

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esp if hes alr taken DSA, calc 1-3, linalg, etc etc

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probably depends on how many credits they accept but grad 2025 not unreasonable at all

shut agate
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Would normally recommend going for 2025 grad date for internships, but if you network you can potentially just leave it 2026 and get a competitive advantage that way. I've seen freshmen in FAANG and banking with this strategy, who sometimes end up in HFTs. Given your Bay Area internship, I think it's safe to go either way. Something to bring up in interviews tho (but claim you'll likely graduate early if they ask just so you don't get filtered out)

Skills should go into a different section, consider bumping margins/reducing font size on section headers if space lacking (but ideally you would trim bullets first)

Consider ordering courses by relevance (e.g., Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Algorithms, should go above Calc and Linear), and prune lower-level courses where redundant (intro to statistics, abstract linear algebra). This is if you decide to keep coursework (which in later years, you should end up removing)

I don't usually like seeing activities going over 1 line, especially if they're irrelevant or insignificant. If you have significant contributions to some project or with leadership, should come into a separate section

On that note - the date formatting is consistent (education, first two roles, latter two roles), and the timeline a little incoherent. Would recommend rethinking

While I understand the reasoning for putting your latter two teaching roles below the two relevant ones in experience, it could potentially pose issues in applying. I think you're a relatively strong candidate overall though, so don't mind it for now. This can pop off into a separate "Leadership & Community Involvement" or some similar section if you end up taking on more internships/leadership roles in the future

Also avoid self-qualifiers ("Competitively selected") - doesn't add anything of value

shut agate
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A general problem with your bullets is that you're not exactly communicating active value, so go through everything and consider restructuring - try to convey the main point in the first 10 words to make it easier to skim and assess

Ok, going into the specifics:
Role 2

  • Reword first bullet to either highlight your biggest impact or general overview of what you did. At the moment, it's not clear (and saying "competitively selected" doesn't help)
  • "Used R to create Monte-Carlo Simulations" - switch this around if it's a responsibility bullet. you don't your highlight to be "used R", rather it should be "created Monte-Carlo simulations"
  • Try to make the purpose of the second more clear - I don't think a lot of people would read this and understand what you did here ("complex chemical combinatorial libraries"?)
  • Explain how you "adapted" the internal library "to allow for ultra-fast sampling" - do you mean you worked on the library itself? Or you simply used it? Both have very very different connotations, and you absolutely need to fix this - the first would require metrics, the second would mean you need to restructure this bullet to make the primary responsibility clear.
  • Rigorous continuous testing into CI/CD how?

Role 3

  • Same thing about restructuring the first bullet
  • Can you be clearer about the course content? Just saying "basic CS concepts" is better than anything here
  • Third bullet is redundant with second, last part being unnecessary

Role 4

  • I'm assuming this is Juni or a similar service. Try to look up people who've worked as a instructor/tutor here to gauge how to improve your communication on this - it's not straightforward. First two bullets can be trimmed down to one line each, e.g. "Provided parents updates on student progress and results from {weekly} learning assessments"
  • Last bullet is unnecessary
  • Be specific about the content of what you taught
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Also not going to comment on how the tech stack is listed/formatted here. It's a little off-standard, but we'll make do with it

Project 1

  • Be clearer about the purpose/problem space in bullet 1. A songbird audio detection model to do what? A reader won't know what this does at initial glance
  • Not the biggest fan of bolding metrics here, it can lead to misinterpretations
  • Split the second part of bullet 1 into another bullet, and trim it down
  • Can't comment on bullet 3

Project 2

  • Don't usually recommend bullets going past 2 lines if possible (it's rarely the case that every part of your bullet has some significant value). I'd consider removing "with continuous local search and re-solving" because it doesn't add much to me. Also start bullet 1 with an action verb for consistency
  • Can't comment on second bullet
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Overall, it's definitely a strong resume for a freshman/sophomore going into ML or computer vision, but it definitely has a lot of weaknesses in communication that could undermine your potential. Hope this helps!

pseudo crypt
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ye i see canadians with 2029 grad dates

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american employers don't care at all lol

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also @somber whale ur resume is pretty fire

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just start applying asap

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apply as 25

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some companies do actually reject u for being a soph sadly

velvet fog
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what company?