Please degrade my CV! LDN SA '27

Hey everyone, I’m a first-year undergrad (graduating 2028) at a European target uni. I’ll be applying for SA27, primarily for IB/PE roles, in London. I’m also planning to cold email a bunch of boutique IB/PE firms in London and wanted to check if my resume is okay. 

I had a few specific questions, do answer if possible. As each is answered, I’ll edit the post to remove it to indicate that it's been answered

Should I:

1.     Include month or just year for education dates? Eg. Sep 2025 – June 2028 vs 2025-2028 vs Class of 2028

2.     Write International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, International Baccalaureate, or IBDP? It’s an equivalent to A-Levels, for reference

3.     Cut down the high school extracurriculars? I could maybe combine them or just list them as “Activities & Socities: Student Council, Basketball Team Captain, Economics Club President” under my education section. CV should look fine – I can reduce the margins somewhat (with 0.65 inches as an infimum). Would that work? Or do I cut my high school completely from my CV, given my mid grades. On that note, Is 4 high school extracurriculars + 1 university one disproportionate at this stage, or normal for a first-year CV?

4.     Add my middle name to the header of my CV – I ask because my email includes my middle name, which might be confusing. However, my linkedin page also lists my name as “Maynard Keenan” not Maynard James Keenan

5.     Remove Insight Programmes – theyre all virtual, so no actual springs unfortunately

6.     Remove courses – main reason was to show Cap IQ/Bloomberg proficiency, and Yale Fin markets was to fill up space. Should I replace Yale with something else? Did it like 3 years ago.

7.     Reorder my boutique IB bullets? Maybe valuation up higher? Is 5 bullets too many?

8.     Enterprise Software (2023, pre-university) be cut now that I have a more relevant IB internship, or still worth keeping for tenure/breadth? Will likely cut after the summer though.

9.     Cut the interest section entirely? Reword maybe?

Does:

10.  The ~5% undervaluation s in one bullet read as believable for a 2-month internship, or does it look inflated? I did do the work, and my supervisors gave me this figure, but I’m wondering if it looks a bit odd.

11.  The university association bullet (TLB equitization, term lender recoveries) read as complete fluff or not. Again, these are things I have actually done, just tried to word it a bit nicely.

12.  The long single-sentence bullet style (e.g. comps/DCF bullet) read as too long/dense, or is it okay as is?

Lastly, any opinion on the template/font? I’ve done mine in LaTeX because I think it looks so much better than anything on word (it is ATS friendly). The font is Garamond adjacent, but I can switch to the WSO template if necessary (would need to cut out quite a bit though, as the margins are much wider).