My CV is 3 pages. Too long? Should I remove extracurricular activities?

Remove your Gcse info, and even your A-level.

Excessive amounts of travelling and volunteering right left and centre can send mixed messages in a CV.

3 pages is a joke, even 2 pages is arguably excessive, especially since as an undergraduate you wont have done much worth writing about.

Also I wouldnt list all 9 of your volunteering roles (especially not for a postgraduate application where noone cares anyway), just pick the most prestigious/braggable one or two and drop the rest. Founding your own organisation is nice for private sector jobs but wont add much to an academic CV unless its directly relevant to the area you are applying to (e.g. a charity if you are applying for a Development degree, and so on) - its worth a couple of sentences at best. Having two undergrad degrees is not a positive, and you should include something in your cover letter explaining why this happened, particularly if they are in unrelated fields.

Why is that? Could you explain that to me? :-) I am not British, so it is very likely that I do not uderstand what kind of experience is valued in the UK.

Thank you for your response! This is very helpul :-) I disagree with you on one thing. In the US, two majors is impressive, not a bad thing. It shows you took a lot more coures than other people and have obtained almost a double amount of credits.

"If a CEO can keep his CV to one page then there is no reason why you can't"

OP, cut it down and prioritise a few things that are most important. At the bottom, you can have a line or two that just lists other stuff you have done without going into detail especially as it is very similar.

The point of a CV is to highlight the most important points and other activities to decide whether to give you an interview, not your life story.

Also I've just noticed you might be from the US - typically American universities put _much_ more emphasis on extra-curriculars than UK universities do. I realise that to get into Harvard you need to write endless amount of prose about the summer you spent building mudhuts in Kenya, but that isnt really how it works in the UK because a) UK universities tend to be explictiy focused on meritocracy and academic achievement rather than trying to attract 'future leaders' like the Ivies do, and b) UK universities are sensitive to accusations of classism and so are reluctant to focus on extra-curriculars since its lot easier to do charity/voluntary/etc work if you come from a wealthy background.

The extra-curricular stuff is worth mentioning and it might make a difference at the margin, but the core of your application should be your academic achievement, and your _relevant_ industry work/extra-curriculars/etc.

It's important in any CV that you're as concise as possible, and that the experience you list is 'relevant'. If your voluntary experience is directly relevant to the postgraduate degree you're applying for then you can be more verbose, but if it's not, I'd keep it short and sweet.

However, it is worth noting that the "two page" rule for CVs doesn't apply to academic CVs. (And there's certainly no need to cut it down to a single page!) Most academic CVs are substantially longer than two pages, as you typically have sections for papers published, conferences attended, prizes and funding received, teaching experience, etc. But as you're currently an undergraduate, this probably won't apply to you yet!

Here are some examples of academic CVs for current postgraduate students, if you're interested: