Hi guys, so I’m wondering if doing internship during the summer will actually increase or help my chances.
It’s a short amount of time, so I was wondering if it will have an impact in my application.
If it’s something you’re interested in doing, then why not? As long as you do something productive with your summer, it will most likely be seen in a positive way. However, it’s probably not going to have a significant impact one whether you’re accepted or denied to a school, so keep that in mind when deciding how to spend your summer.
Make the most of every summer (make time for fun and personal/professional growth). However, keep in mind that many high school “internships” are simply arrangements made within family contacts, and adcoms are aware. If you have a interesting summer internship opportunity, regardless of whether it is from family contacts or your own merit, I would seize it and make the most of it (do something great within the internship).
FWIT, my S earned an internship through our 6A school district, who has partnered with a professional sports team ball park, aerospace company, architecture firm, and petroleum company. 13 students were selected from the 100 invited to apply for an internship at a government contracted Aerospace company. This internship was during his entire senior year (went 2x a week, 4 hours a day) and is full time every summer through college and a guaranteed job out of college if he fulfills the requirements. Right now, he is working on writing code for the super computer.
He was a National Merit Commended student and in the top 10 percent of his class, took 5 years of PLTW engineering classes, 5 years of German, etc.and The first choice school he wanted only automatically accepted the top 8%. The rest were holistic review. He was declined full admittance to the Univeristy of Texas Cockrell School of Engineering but was accepted to other very fine schools for engineering, instate and out of state and offered scholarship money.
His internship did not help him one iota for a competitive school like UT being instate but out of the auto admit percentage. Did it help at the other schools? Who knows.
It highly depends on the college if it is going to help you but I would not count on it making up for other weak areas on your application.
As opposed to what? Sitting around doing nothing? Like sophie said, as long as the activity is productive, that’s what matters. Internship, voluntarism, working a job, attending band camps, etc.
It won’t get you into a college you are not academically qualified for but you should do something productive over the summer be it a job, internship, educational program, or anything else. If you found an internship that interests you, go for it.
I don’t know if this is a competitive program or not. In FL, there is a selective summer internship at FL State, for science people. If colleges were to research this program, they would know how impressive this internship,is. Otherwise, everyone I knew just shadowed a professional.