CV Question

[CatsFan]

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As a graduate student, what do you include on your CV from your undergraduate years? I presented a poster at my school's undergraduate research fair (my honor's thesis), but as I don't consider this a "real" conference, I wasn't sure if I should list it. Also, I changed my research area between undergrad and grad, from general clinical adult (my lab did anxiety/depression research) to neuro, so it's not directly related to the research I'm doing now. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[HomeworkHelper]

I imagine people differ on this, but my take is that at the graduate level, you still are so young in your career that including relevant undergraduate experiences will still help contribute to your CV. I would stop at undergrad though (no high school stuff).

 

[erg923]

I am 1 year post degree and still have it noted that I was on the deans List all four years of undergrad. Thats all, though. I took off my undergrad RA experience and undergrad clincial experience (nurse tech at state hospital) during the internship year.

 

[WisNeuro]

So, you're saying I should take my line about winning the 4H mud volleyball tournament in 2000 off of my CV? I was proud of that 🙁

 

[erg923]

Yea, I guess. I climbed the a street light when we made it to the final four one year. The, um, assisting officer said I had mad climbing skills...

 

[IT514]

I took off one RA experience - wasnt really worth talking about so no need to take up space on my CV. I left undergrad awards/honors on there and actually got a comment about my "scholar athlete" award at a post-doc fellowship interview, which led to a discussion about the importance of being a well-rounded human being with interests outside of psych.

To answer your question, I would include anything that may be relevant whatsoever, anything worth talking about (i.e. "this was my first experience in x; this was when I worked with Dr. so and so, etc.)

 

[AcronymAllergy]

I don't remember ever really using/needing a CV early on in my grad school career, so I can't answer in that respect. By the time internship applications rolled around, I don't think I had anything on there from undergrad other than my degree and major/minor. Although who knows, that might've been to my own detriment.