Should you bring a resume to a college interview?

AAlumni interviewers for selective colleges, as readers in Stanford's admissions office understood them, usually arrive with little more than your name and perhaps your intended major. Within a minute or two they are looking for something to ask about, and the conversation goes wherever their attention happens to land. For most students that means a polite tour of activities, a few questions about school, and a report that says little. It does not have to go that way. If you hand the interviewer a single page at the start, they will usually ask about what is on it, which makes that page the most useful tool you control in the room, provided it was written for the room and not copied from the application.