Psych CV question

[Jung&Psyched]

Hi all

I have started working on my CV and has two questions I was hoping you all could help me out with! This is my first time writing a CV,  so any additional help/advice is appreciated. 

1. My first question is about the education section. I attended a private college my freshman year and then changed my major and realized I was spending waaay too much money to be going to a private school and not even certain of what I wanted to do, so I transferred and did a year at community college to figure it out and knock out some of my general education credits. Then I transferred to a public university and finished out my degree in psych. After graduating I did one semester of my MSW -- realized I wanted some work experience to see if that was really a field I wanted to go into and dropped out (but had a 4.0 that semester). I've been working for about five years now and then over the past two semesters I have taken two online classes to retake two poor psych grades I got in undergrad.  So how should I best summarize my education into a CV?? Should I just put the university I graduated from and the one a began my MSW at? Or should I include all places I attended and then place a cumulative GPA after all of the listings ? My cumulative GPA is higher (though still terrible haha) than the GPA from where I graduated, but I don't want to list the cumulative under only the graduating institution because if they looked at that institutions transcript it wouldn't match up. 

2. Do you include  a cover letter with your CV when applying to grad schools? It seems a bit redundant since you also submit a personal statement, but I don't want to not include one and look unprofessional ! 

Thank you for your help ! 

[MarineBluePsy]

Well when you apply to graduate programs they will require that you send official transcripts of every college and grad school you've previously attended.  Your best bet is to use your personal statement to address this and also explain why now you're certain that this program is right for you and that you intend to finish it.  It isn't common for applications to require a cover letter with your CV, but if you're asked for one you can use it to address the education issue.  If a cover letter is not requested then on your CV you can list all the schools in the order you attended them and for those you didn't earn degrees just state the number of units or credit hours you completed that way it is consistent with your transcripts.  After you finish your program you can revise your CV to only mention where you actually earned a degree since that is what employers will be more interested in.

[Jung&Psyched]

On 8/11/2018 at 3:55 PM, MarineBluePsy said:

Well when you apply to graduate programs they will require that you send official transcripts of every college and grad school you've previously attended.  Your best bet is to use your personal statement to address this and also explain why now you're certain that this program is right for you and that you intend to finish it.  It isn't common for applications to require a cover letter with your CV, but if you're asked for one you can use it to address the education issue.  If a cover letter is not requested then on your CV you can list all the schools in the order you attended them and for those you didn't earn degrees just state the number of units or credit hours you completed that way it is consistent with your transcripts.  After you finish your program you can revise your CV to only mention where you actually earned a degree since that is what employers will be more interested in.

Great! That's how I started laying it out initially and the was second guessing myself! Thank you for the response and advice