Conflicting Summer Program Notification Dates

<p>There are several programs I am applying to. There is this local internship that people from my school do annually that I applied to. However, they want a decision by me before other notifications come out. I don't want to accept the internship before I know my acceptance status of the other programs (if I was to get accepted.) For specific dates, assuming I don't get into RSI, which sends out notifications next week, the internship asked for a deadline of March 31, while Clark Scholars, MITES, and SSP send out notifications in April, I believe. It would be a huge mistake if I declined the internship and end up not getting accepted into any of these programs (not out of the question, considering the competitiveness of each.) What should I do?</p>

<p>Check out this thread I posted on the matter a few months ago: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/summer-programs/1436098-how-deal-different-notification-dates.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/summer-programs/1436098-how-deal-different-notification-dates.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;