UK Spring Week Applicant

Your resume has good highlights, but it reads like an exhaustive list of everything you've done in your whole life.

Major changes: Your leadership experience is scattered around and you have too much fluff.

Make a separate "Leadership" section to de-clutter everything. I can see by reading through it that you just sprinkled your leadership stuff around the whole page and I'd have to track it down if I wanted to find it. People also hate when you mix extra-curricular type stuff with paid work experience. Take everything you've done to do with leadership, pick the 1-3 most significant roles and give them each their own heading in the leadership section.

To make room for this, take out all the fluffy bullshit: - "Sovereign Wealth Fund Finance Day School Representative" needs to go, there's no way that warrants four lines. 1-line mention max. - Take out the JP Morgan insight day you went to, once you've done internships no one lists insight days. - Take out that your team came second in a boarding school intramural soccer league. Not only does this take up space and is meaningless, but that fact that you list it is a dead giveaway to me that that was the sporting achievement of your whole life and paints a bad picture of you. - Take out fluff like "major event with 9 Nobel etc" after International Science Youth Forum. If they care, they'll Google it. It just dilutes other stuff. - Just take off "activities" from high school, it doesn't matter anymore unless you were Headboy or captain of a team. Keep the HS awards and scholarships though, it proves you're smart.

So with your new found space, you're going to make a specific leadership section and move relevant experience into there to de-clutter everything. I would even consider naming it "Leadership & Collaborative Experience" and moving all your competition results in there too.

Last thing: Getting an internship at an investment bank the summer after high school in your home country (in SE Asia none the less) is a dead giveaway that it was nepotism. Bankers know how Asia works, and they're going to instantly assume (and reasonably so) that you got it through family hook ups. And if it was, be aware that they're going to discount it pretty heavily. If they call you out on it during an interview, just be 100% honest "I'm really keen to gain experience in the industry, and reached out to friends and family for any placement I could get". It's fine, they'll understand it. Just do not bullshit about it, they aren't stupid.

Good luck on spring weeks, you stand a good chance at BBs.