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I use awesome-cv.cls and find it amazing. However, there is one thing I'd like to change.

For one section only (Eduction), I'd like to get rid of bullet-points. Here's how they look:

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Source looks that way:

% Define an entry of cv information
% Usage: \cventry{<position>}{<title>}{<location>}{<date>}{<description>}
\newcommand*{\cventry}[5]{%
  \vspace{-2.0mm}
  \setlength\tabcolsep{0pt}
  \setlength{\extrarowheight}{0pt}
  \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} L{\textwidth - 4.5cm} R{4.5cm}}
    \ifempty{#1#3#4}
      {\entrytitlestyle{#2} \\
        \multicolumn{1}{L{\textwidth}}{\descriptionstyle{#5}}}
      {\ifempty{#2#3}
          {\entrypositionstyle{#1} & \entrydatestyle{#4} \\}
          {\entrytitlestyle{#2} & \entrylocationstyle{#3} \\
            \entrypositionstyle{#1} & \entrydatestyle{#4} \\}
        \multicolumn{2}{L{\textwidth}}{\descriptionstyle{#5}}}
  \end{tabular*}%
}

If I put empty section of {<description>}, I get the correct result, however, the spacing between two entries is too big:

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To avoid this, I've made a little hack, namely I put \vspace{-1mm} between the entries. Now it is ok. However, I'd be happy to know how this could be fixed.

Here's MWE along with my hack:

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[]{awesome-cv}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\fontdir[fonts/]
\newcommand*{\sectiondir}{resume/}

\definecolor{text}{HTML}{000000}
\begin{document}
\begin{cventries}
    \cventry
    {Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, GPA: 3.5/4.0}
    {Northeastern University}
    {Boston, MA}
    {May 2019}
    {
        % \begin{cvitems}
        %     \item {TEST}
        % \end{cvitems}
    }
    \vspace{-1mm}
    \cventry
    {Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, GPA: 3.5/4.0}
    {Northeastern University}
    {Boston, MA}
    {May 2019}
    {
        % \begin{cvitems}
        %     \item {TEST}
        % \end{cvitems}
    }
\end{cventries}
\end{document}
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  • This type of 'hacks' is regularly found in LaTeX documents, they are more or less normal/accepted (the \vspace{-2.0mm} at the start of \cventry in the awesome-cv source is an example of this). Also, default LaTeX macros themselves are often full of rather obscure positioning tricks. So if this solution works for you then I would suggest to leave it as it is and enjoy the result :) – Marijn Mar 30 '20 at 13:35

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Some time ago I was facing the same issue. To solve it, I modified the \cventry command as displayed below. The idea is to check if the description (#5) is empty, and to add content (multicolumn) only if the description itself is not empty. Carriage returns are moved accordingly.

\newcommand*{\cventry}[5]{%
  \vspace{-2.0mm}
  \setlength\tabcolsep{0pt}
  \setlength{\extrarowheight}{0pt}
  \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} L{\textwidth - 4.5cm} R{4.5cm}}
    \ifempty{#2#3}
      {\entrypositionstyle{#1} & \entrydatestyle{#4} }
      {\entrytitlestyle{#2} & \entrylocationstyle{#3} \\
      \entrypositionstyle{#1} & \entrydatestyle{#4} }
    \ifempty{#5}
      {}
      {\\\multicolumn{2}{L{\textwidth}}{\descriptionstyle{#5}}}
  \end{tabular*}%
}
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