<p>Nope…</p>
<p>I didn’t get any internship when I was in high school. I wasn’t that well connected.</p>
<p>Tarnation, the reason you won’t be doing anything meaningful in either internship is that you don’t yet have the knowledge or experience to make a substantive meaningful contribution in any position at either company–yet. </p>
<p>The internship would be meaningful to you, because the internship would give you an opportunity to observe and learn both substantively and experientially. If you are asked to photocopy or scan a batch of documents, and you take the time to read them and ask intelligent questions about them, you can learn a lot…and a few years from now, with relevant courses under your belt, you might be able to make substantive contributions to creating those kinds of documents.</p>
<p>The experience of being in a working environment might also do wonders for your attitude. Being a high school intern truly is the lowest spot on the totem pole…you are lucky if you are even noticed enough to be asked to take out the trash or make the coffee.</p>
<p>By the way…as far as an internship “planned” for the summer after high school will basically be ignored by the admissions folks. They are looking at what you have already done/accomplished, not what you plan for the future, no matter how impressive or high falutin’ the plan.</p>
<p>Have fun with retail, I hear edward jones is always looking for FA’s.</p>
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<p>if that were the case then colleges would not ask for 2nd semester grades… colleges care about what you are doing and what you are going to do. </p>
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<p>i don’t understand why you are so mad? You started off by telling me that an internship is not a big deal because it wont make or break my application. i never said that an internship could make my application, i simply said it would help my application. if you’re looking to argue with someone please argue with someone who’s on your level, maybe a middle-schooler</p>
<p>So on topic, should i confirm my Citibank internship? Would that look better to business schools?</p>
<p>oB-schools won’t care much where you interned prior to going to college. There will be three other summers that will be more recent than that by the time you apply. They won’t distinguish between Citibank and Ernst & Young either. Both are high level professional organizations. </p>
<p>Try either one. I’m a bit partial to accounting, but there’s too little info to go on. This is a time of your life to make a decision and take your chances. You can’t go wrong.</p>
<p>I am an accountant and I suggest E&Y, it is a big 4 accounting firm. Working there is much meaningful than work in citibank, ppl will think you work in a citibank brench office doing some clerical work. If E&Y give you some accounting work, you can take it to the bank and ppl in the field know it means some thing.</p>
<p>My vote is to be a lifeguard at a country club or flig burgers at Shake Shack.</p>
<p>Tarnation you’ve made it clear that you have a poor grasp on college admissions. I can sympathize with that I was stuck going to public school as well. I misspoke earlier, a “potential” internship will have no bearing on your admission decisions whatsoever.</p>
<p>First off, if this internship is for the summer between high school and college you have no right putting it on your application/resume anyway so it really doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>Secondly, the analogy between second semester grades and your situation is a poor one. A midterm report is simply based on your work done in the first half of the semester. While in your case you would be assuming that in 8 months you might possible do X.</p>
<p>Finally, yes citibank is in an entirely different league than E&Y. Im sorry art lover but your simply not right… OP is a finance major and the big 4 is really the land of the red headed step children for finance majors.</p>
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<p>Honestly, I think this may actually hurt you more than it will help you.</p>
<p>Wait until the summer after your freshman year to do an internship. If you had the connections to get this, getting the next one will not be an issue.</p>
<p>Employers want people who are fun to be around and that they wouldn’t mind spending long hours with. People who do internships in high school are seen as weird, nerdy and boring. Do something interesting that you can talk about in interviews.</p>
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^^^You are thinking the investment bank side of the Citibank, OP in the first posting said he is going to do some documentations, namely filing clerk. Citibank is so big, the retail side is more or less a bank brench, clerical work. Do you think a HS graduate will sit next to the Chairman on 38th floor of 400 Park Avenue? However, every E&Y office has professionals, they have to go out to audit, op is going to do some accounting, which is the first step in finance and ppl respect that.</p>
<p>I know Citibank well, many members of my family have been working for Citibank in New York, including my dad and my brother.</p>
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<p>I worked at E&Y. So did my husband, who also worked for Deloitte. I’ve never seen them send a hs intern out on an audit (trust me, the clients would freak) or even do any ‘real’ accounting work. If he’s lucky, they will let him tick and tie some schedules or add up columns of numbers or do data entry on some tax software or make coffee for the partners. 
When these firms hire accounting graduates they spend a lot of time training them before let them loose. Though it’s an excellent way to see what public accounting is like.</p>
<p>Although I’m bias toward accounting and if you think you want to go into accounting the firms will give you ‘brownie points’ for having interned at one, either one would be an excellent opportunity. Putting it on your college application, like so many things, is only one data point for the adcoms to consider and the fact that you haven’t actually done the internship means it’s probably not going to count for much. Good luck.</p>
<p>Alright thanks guys</p>
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<p>^^ I was in KPMG headquaters for 10 years. I have never seen a HS intern in our office. I figure the OP is a favor of a high up, in that case, anything can happen.</p>
<p>One of my uncle had an assembly plant, when I was intern there they let me into everywhere in the plant and the plant manager car pooled with me to work…:)</p>
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Uh, no. Maybe it is a favor, but that favor is providing a job/internship. There is too much risk for E&Y to let any HS student touch any real numbers.</p>
<p>^^“anything can happen” does not mean that kid will be able to muddle the client’s data, U need a college degree to do that. They might let him to observe the process or do some additions on a tape, but, on the resume, that is 100 miles better than average joe in the McDonals (if that).</p>
<p>Artlover, I thought you were counterpointing Momlive’s point since you quoted her. You stated in post 31 the OP would do some accounting. She pointed out that would not be permitted. You then stated “anything can happen” in post 34. I just agreed with Momlive.</p>
<p>Actually, I disagree that the internship at an accounting firm would be more impressive to a college than working at McD’s…</p>
<p>I think the college would realize that the fancy “internship” was most likely a favor to someone high up in the firm or an important client, because a high school kid wouldn’t be allowed near anything substantive. No client would consent to having its account touched by a high school student…that’s not who they hired when they chose the firm to handle their account!</p>
<p>Whereas I think a college would be impressed by a student who hustled his butt off at a humble job which will help him realize the good fortune of the opportunity to have a college education.</p>
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<p>An internship would show business schools my interest in finance and also that I’m willing to spend my summer pursuing something related to my major. Or is a job where some flips burgers for some gas money more impressive. Honestly you can’t say that a non paying internship at a professional firm is less impressive than a job some kid has for some extra pocket money.</p>
<p>^^by business schools do you mean undergrad business schools or are you planning ahead four years down the road? In which case, don’t bother. Summer after HS internship is irrelevant to Graduate Business Schools.
And as to your last post - yes we collectively can say that a non-paying internship in either a place like Citi or at E&Y is less impressive than a meaningless summer job that is held because you need to save money for college, or for family, or even for gas money.</p>