<p>@mhmm</p>
<p>The internship will show my interest in business and finance, also it will provide me with real world experience. This is something that might set me apart from many other similar applicants. And yes the internship will help with undergrad admissions, I haven’t planned for grad school yet. And I’m pretty sure if IDE use to transfer colleges after my freshman year, my internship will look a lot more better than a mcdonalds job.</p>
<p>The only thing a transfer college cares about are the current college grades, sat/act/ap/sat2 scores.</p>
<p>It is well known and recognized that Wall Street and other finance related areas (consulting, accounting) do not give internships after freshman year. They usually don’t give internships after sophomore year. The “real” internships are after junior year. Thus colleges know that if someone does have an internship prior to that, you got it as a result of a connection of some sort. They also understand that it is not a true internship, more of a shadowing. Wont sway your freshman application one little bit. However, once you are actually filling out a transfer application and you have completed that internship - you can include it, together with a reference , in the transfer.
At which point, its better to include citi.</p>
<p>So me learning about how an extremely successful firm is run, and working with them is not a real internship? Also, are you saying that having an internship would not give me any advantage over other kids who competing with when it’s time to transfer?</p>
<p>I think people are trying to tell you that college admin can easily tell you get this internship by connection other than your own merit, so it’s less impressive than a flipping-burger job that a student has to compete with other applicants by showing his qualifications.</p>
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<p>Oh yes we can. </p>
<p>A HS kid who can afford to, and has connections enough to get a non paying internship at a professional firm screams ‘privilege.’ A kid working at McD’s who works himself up to night manager, that would give me warm fuzzies. </p>
<p>Above all, though, would be a kid who clearly is privileged and has connections who works at McD’s as a night manager. Now that would be a true prize.</p>
<p>BTW, one can learn a lot about management working at McD’s.</p>
<p>Oh my - how much are you folks going to **** on this kid’s parade? </p>
<p>Tarnation, try to enjoy your internship and stop reading this thread.</p>
<p>He wants to do the internship because he thinks it will help him with college application, not because it is something he really wants to do. We are trying to tell him that it is not going to matter. His time would be better spent in doing something he enjoys. He is doing it for the wrong reason.</p>
<p>FYI - my kid’s good friend, who flipped burgers sophomore summer, is working at GS now. He said it was the toughest summer, flipping burgers in NYC. My kid also didn’t start doing any meaningful internship until sophomore/junior year in college, is also working at an IB. Both of them just tried to get good grades in college.</p>
<p>@a_mom & ihs76</p>
<p>You are on the admissions team at the Wharton. Now imagine you have two freshman applying to Wharton from the same university with the same credantials. However, one of the applicants has an internship at Citibank. The internship learned vital business aspects and has real life experience. The other applicant has had various jobs throughout highschool and is currently working at McDonalds. Who’s applcation looks stronger? The internship shows interest, provides real life experience, and also one of they key things universities look for in transfer students is “real life experience”</p>
<p>Getting a job at Mcdonalds it not hard, however being selected for an internship from a pool of hundreds of kids is pretty impressive IMHO.</p>
<p>Yes, it would impressive if you were selected from a pool of hundreds of kids, no different than TASP, Governor School, or any program which you would need to compete for a spot.</p>
<p>@ihs</p>
<p>I feel like a whole post dedicated to correcting a typo is a little bit too much. A post should be meaningful and helpful, especially when coming from parents. The post was immature and deserved the “snippy reply”.</p>
<p>@oldfort</p>
<p>Thank you thats all i was trying to say. I don’t know why, but i think many posters here try to mislead others in order to… I don’t know… maybe boost his or her ego? or maybe they just want to eliminate competition?</p>
<p>Tarnation: I deleted my post that you are referring to because I decided to play nice. We parents often have one liners that have varying degrees of bite because we think they’re funny. You probably haven’t hung around the parents forum long enough to know that.</p>
<p>As to the question regarding Wharton admission team: </p>
<p>You are speaking linearly but society is 3 dimensional. On one axis, yes, an internship at a fancy schmanzy firm looks impressive, and working at a minimum wage job looks less impressive in the absolute. However, adults and admissions committees see the full 3 (or more) dimensions of the situation. And in that light, first is not automatically better than the second, and in some situations, may actually be deemed worse. </p>
<p>The fact that you don’t seem to get that, but rather keep insisting that we are wrong, is not going to lead to a productive discussion.</p>
<p>As someone said above, go and have fun at your internship. If you want to think that that will help you in your various future endeavors, go for it.</p>
<p>BTW, I would suggest you stop focusing on ‘transferring’ when you haven’t even started your college applications. It turns out that it’s harder to transfer into a dream school that didn’t accept you in the first place than it was to get accepted in the first place.</p>
<p>tarnation, I think you misunderstood forts post #50. What she means is that it would be impressive if it were so. But it isnt so. You have not competed with hundreds of kids for either one of these internship possibilities. Wharton and all other colleges will understand this and not be impressed. Thus dont put this into your freshman application. If you do the internship, have a meaningful experience - then by all means make it into an essay and list it in the transfer application.
I understand where your thought process is, but believe the collective wisdom of many here - no internship out of HS will provide real life experience, or will allow you to learn business wisdoms, no matter how much you may want it to be. At best you will be invited to sit in the back of the room during meetings. And only those that will not discuss important things due to confidentiality issues.</p>