No, you really don’t have to do it that way. That’s an MIT-ism.

January 2, 2016 by EssaySnark - Discusses MIT Sloan

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UPDATE JUNE 2016: The odd instructions for the resume described in this post appear to have been deleted from the MIT website for this year’s app! ——————————– MIT Admissions is wonky in so much of their advice. They give out some very useful stuff too but there’s been some weirdness with what they tell BSers…

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Clashes says

January 2, 2016 at 6:39 pm

Woo my feedback session made it into an essaysnark blog! I may have gotten waitlisted at Sloan but I’m chalking this up as an accomplishment! ES, thoughts, on putting this on the resume? 🙂

To anyone applying there and considering this point: I kept ft/pt and didn’t get in, so it must not be THAT crucial 🙂
- essaysnark says
  
  January 2, 2016 at 10:14 pm
  
  Gosh, we wonder what else of our advice you chose to ignore? 😉
  
  But it’s good to hear that you’re still in the running at MIT!! Hopefully Sloan, or at least one other of your apps, works out for you this year!!!!!!
levieillard says

January 2, 2016 at 7:35 pm

There’s maybe one (1) upside to reformatting your resume for each school… IF you get invited to interview, and IF the school uses student interviews, and IF the students sees your resume, then MAYBE they will recognize the format and be impressed.

There are probably better ways for most people to spend their time preparing applications, but I like the thoughtful attention to detail it shows 🙂
- essaysnark says
  
  January 2, 2016 at 10:10 pm
  
  Or, they’ll think you’re a suck-up. Or that you’re being a little presumptuous, in already having your resume formatted for their recruiting process! There’s lots of ways that might be interpreted. 😀
Gulliver says

January 4, 2016 at 2:10 pm

Current Sloanie here. The PT/FT thing does not appear in the resume template I and ~800 other Sloanies are using in recruiting. We have had a bunch of resume prep sessions with the Career Development Office and in each and every one of them, they’ve trimmed the fat on my resume.

Listen to the ‘Snark is all I’m saying!
- essaysnark says
  
  January 4, 2016 at 4:22 pm
  
  @Gulliver, thanks for stopping by! Appreciate getting the firsthand perspective from the bschool trenches. We also have to take the opportunity to comment on how popular MIT has been getting among BSers, and how selective. Everybody wants to go there! A special place indeed. We continue to be impressed by the Sloanies we’ve met and the Class of 2018 is looking to be another amazing group.