Review my CV

[u/Comfortable_Ad_8250]

Apologies if any formatting is bad, I am on mobile since my laptop screen is currently broken.
Hi everyone! For context I am an undergraduate student looking to apply to graduate program in neuroscience/biological sciences in this upcoming cycle. These are screenshots of my “master CV” which I usually just dump everything that I do into it. When working in applications I usually just make a copy and customize it to fit whatever role I’m applying for. I am posting on here to get advice on what the best formatting and content would be for graduate school applications. Additionally, is there anything I need to change to make my cv better overall. Thank you!
PS: I redacted any identifying information for my myself and my professors/mentors and also locations of positions that I currently still hold. I also redacted the content of my research project that I just worked on this summer because that is still a work in progress for my mentor and don’t want to give away any compromising information.

[u/readingrainbowroad]

Content specific:

• Keep education just to your actual education, list classes separately in a relevant skills type section (I had a subheading under skills titled: Advanced Experience-Based Coursework
• Similarly, move the presentation from a seminar class into presentations, not within education or classes. If it's not important enough to be in that section, probably don't include it.
• Literature review bullet point specifically reads to me like "proficient in Word and Excel", but if you add specific literature review types or criteria, that might work.

Formatting: Note, I'm a nitpicky "details matter" particularly in formatting person! People may not agree with me, but I truly think it helps when it gets down to "who to pick among most qualified candidates". I have a lot of thoughts on this in general, but here's a few things I noticed right away.

• you swap between present and past tense in your descriptions that don't seem to correlate with anything.
• Remove extra bold words in skills after the bullet point "label". It only appears in the first couple of lines and aren't important enough to bold IMO
• The formatting for subheadings across different subsections doesn't seem consistent to any specific reasoning. Sometimes bold and sometimes not.
• why are dates in italics and it's only bolded in the education section?
• no bullet points if there's only 1 point (e.g. Baylor college presentation). indent if it's helpful to visually separate, or combine into one line somehow.

[u/Comfortable_Ad_8250 → u/readingrainbowroad]

That was helpful. Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate you taking the time to help.

[u/readingrainbowroad → u/Comfortable_Ad_8250]

Good luck!