Resume critique and advice

Hello everyone! I'm a rising senior at a non-target aiming to intern at a boutique bank in the fall and would appreciate a quick review and critique of my resume. Is the format (font, spacing, margins) fine? Is it too wordy? Any other skills I can learn to better differentiate myself? Should I add a RECENT READS section to show further interest in finance? Any advice on how to move forward would also be much appreciated! Thanks so much!

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TorontoMonkey1328

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Resume is dense. Too much material. Don't even have spaces before your headings. Way too tight.
Trim down relevant coursework. Personally, I'd keep: FSA, M&A and restructurings, maybe IA and Portfolio Theory if you want. The other courses seem pretty core (low impact): Fin. Acct, calculus, corp fin, int fin, global econ etc.
Tutor - Second and third bullets are weak and expected from a tutor (low impact). Consider removing.
School Business Society - bullets are bit soft. Did you do any new initiatives? Manage a budget? What were the measurable results? You need to give more details.
Investment management group - What were you're returns on your portfolio? What was your investment strategy?
Business Society VP - why did the 50% new members join? Because of presentations and email? Sounds weak. Did you offer them a new service? Represent their interests in a new way? When you say, joined do you mean added the society to the Facebook / Linkedin page? Were these adds "active"?
M&A Competition - remove superfluous words like "comprehensive". And M&A is not a strong modifier to the word valuation. Did you do precedent transactions? I'd also remove the third bullet. Also for the last bullet, I'd be more forceful like "Presented analysis which advised Google to purchase X business because of [potential for value creation | strategic opportunity]" or even "... showing deal was x% Accretive" (weak, but at least shows you get the concepts)
I'd remove languages. Wouldn't really put down languages where your command is "beginning"; fluent English is not noteworthy, so you are really just letting the reader know you speak Arabic.
Technical training: I'd remove HTML, CSS and MailChimp

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