<p>Okay, I'm scared I won't get into any of the "normal" internships I've applied for, but is there any way for an undergraduate to get an internship aimed at CC students? I mean, the work seems just as interesting (spectroscopy at the US DoE, etc.) just that the application pool would be less competitive.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>where are you seeing these CC internships</p>
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<p>I did dual-enrollment in a lower institution during high school … I mean, I’m not officially disenrolled… so uhh could I submit two transcripts (one from UVA and one from my lower institution) and that would officially make me an eligible CC student? =D</p>
<p>Well, I clicked on the page one time and came up with this:</p>
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<p>So I would have to say no.</p>
<p>Yes, but a 4 year institution would be even better, right?</p>
<p>No you wouldn’t be eligible…you aren’t full time at a community or two-year college, you’re at a four-year college. This looks like a program specifically for community college students, if you’re not a full time community college student I don’t think you can apply.</p>
<p>Desperate for a safety. Help! </p>
<p>Why don’t safeties exist with internships? =(</p>
<p>They do, it’s called volunteer work.</p>
<p>If an internship specifies it wants a CC student, it indicates that the internship involves work that would interest a CC student. Perhaps more vocational or low level in nature. A regular college applicant would NOT be attractive as a candidate because the assumption of the employer would be that there would be a poor fit between the candidate and the job…a candidate might consider the work he is being asked to do as “beneath him” or he may consider himself a cut above the employees he is assigned to work with,etc. Not only that, but in the real world an employer is often looking to hire a candidate full time later…obviously not what you are looking for long term.</p>
<p>Yes, but it’s still the Department of Energy, and you can always “step up”.</p>
<p>When I went to CC the only internship opportunity was the disney one. I did volunteer work.</p>
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<p>Please explain how nationally-acclaimed laboratories and the Fermi Particle Accelerator make for poor employers. I think that’d look cool on a resume.</p>
<p>They probably want interns who are getting the kind of technical training that one can get in CCs: certificates in dental hygiene, respiratory therapy, lab technology, etc. By hiring such students, the companies can figure out whom to hire for permanent jobs in those fields. The internships aren’t designed to help the companies prepare/assess future chemists, pharmacists or others in jobs that students in 4-year colleges are on track for.</p>
<p>What it comes down to is that, for whatever reason, they say they want community college students because they do want community college students. They’re not saying they want community college students because they want students in 4-year programs but think that community college students are the best they can do.</p>
<p>And in general, students at 2-year schools are not just less-successful versions of students in the first 2 years at 4-year schools, which is what you seem to be suggesting when you ask whether programs designed for community college students can function as “safeties” for BA students; many of them possess characteristics that are desirable in some contexts and which students at 4-year schools lack. It doesn’t matter how much you think you would like some of these internships; you aren’t qualified for them, much less overqualified.</p>
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<p>I’ve been in pretty ghetto environments – I went to a ghetto, blue-collar high school where 47% of the student body went on to two-year schools and where the dropout rate was 30%. I’m a low-income student from a single parent household. What aspect of a CC student would I lack?</p>
<p>Also I don’t see why an internship in chemistry is somehow vocational training. This seems to be for the type of CC student that would transfer to a 4-year school?</p>
<p>“I’ve been in pretty ghetto environments – I went to a ghetto, blue-collar high school where 47% of the student body went on to two-year schools and where the dropout rate was 30%. I’m a low-income student from a single parent household. What aspect of a CC student would I lack?”</p>
<p>You have a very low, very inaccurate view of most community colleges. o.O</p>
<p>OP just has the typical deluded view of CC’s…</p>
<p>anyways, why have scholarships or programs that target women, low income-students or minorities? it’s about helping those that are for whatever reason at a disadvantage; in this case it’s the fact that the resources at 2 year schools are incomparable to those available to students in 4 year schools.</p>
<p>I’ve been at a disadvantage in high school, and it bites me back even at my four-year-school because like 99% of my classmates (in my honors chemistry track) did research in their high school career… and I didn’t. I think I need a little affirmative action too.</p>
<p>I dual-enrolled in HS so I don’t think I have a “deluded” view of CCs… I mixed around with those characters all the time. I know what it’s like to be working class, very very well.</p>
<p>I went to a pretty good school and didn’t even know you could do research in high school. You really need to get your head out of your ass.</p>
<p>And furthermore, no, just because you dual enrolled at ONE CC does not mean you have even a clue what most CC’s are like.</p>
<p>Your **** poor attitude is what’s holding you back in life, not your high school.</p>