10/15/2026
I have reviewed over 50 graduate CVs for the Fall 2027 application season, and the research section is where most of them go wrong.
Most of the students I work with did a research thesis, and some worked on a field survey or did data work for a supervisor, yet when I open their CV I find one line about it: “Assisted with research.”
That line tells me they were in the room, but it does not tell me what they did there.
When I ask the students what they actually did on the project, their answer is always better than their CV. They tell me they designed the questionnaire, trained the data collectors, cleaned hundreds of records or ran the analysis themselves, and none of that was on the page.
This is what I tell every student I work with: the admissions committee will never get the chance to ask you that question, so your CV has to answer it for them. A research entry should show what the project was trying to find out, the part you handled yourself, and what came out of it.
Tonight, cover the project title on your CV and read what is left, and if nobody could tell what you did, that entry needs work.
We will work on entries like this in our mega CV and SOP workshop.
Join me on Saturday, October 24. Register at the link below.
Register here: https://greenereduconsult.com/cv-sop-workshop/?src=facebook
